Fifteen people attacked a day by fish in Benidorm as people with moles warned

1 month ago

‘Doomsday fish’ washed ashore in California, but what does that mean?

LA Times

On Nov. 6, a 10-foot-long oarfish was found at Grandview Beach in Encinitas by Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral candidate Alison Laferriere. It’s rare to see an oarfish up close in California; only 22 have washed ashore since 1901, according to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. If an oarfish happens to swim up to the ocean’s surface, a …

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1 month ago

Chile’s rare salt flat fish faces extinction from lithium mining

The Independent

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1 month ago

‘Doomsday fish:’ A rare oarfish returns to California shores for the second time this year

CNN

CNN — The elusive deep-water oarfish – considered to be a harbinger of bad news – was spotted yet again on the shores of Encinitas, California. “We took samples and froze the specimen awaiting further study and final preservation in the Marine Vertebrate Collection,” Ben Frable, manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection, said in the post. The so-called …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Amazon’s giant fishing economy is under threat

The Independent

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Calls for action after invasive tilapia fish found on K'Gari, off Queensland coast

ABC

For hundreds of thousands of years, K'gari has been a haven for native animals and special species of flora and fauna, but a noxious pest from Africa has found its way onto the Queensland island. "As the landowner, they have a general biosecurity obligation to take all reasonable and practical measures to minimise the biosecurity risks associated with tilapia," the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

New ‘Grumpy’ fish species discovered in Red Sea

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

A 12-foot-long harbinger of doom washed ashore in San Diego

LA Times

A rare deep-sea oarfish was discovered floating in the waters off San Diego. The giant oarfish, the largest bony fish in the world, was spotted floating — dead — just off San Diego, only the 20th such fish to wash up along the California coast since the early 1900s, according to Ben Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Fish kill spotlights pangs of Periyar

The Hindu

It was the changing colour of the water that first caught the attention of veteran paddy cultivator-cum-fish farmer E.J. Soon he realised there was something seriously wrong as news spread of mass fish death in the in the Pathalam-Edayar segment — an industrial area — of the Periyar by May 21 afternoon. While fishermen sustained unquantified loss of stocks, farmers …

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7 months ago

Pollution ‘kills’ spirit of cage fish farmers

New Indian Express

KOCHI: The day dawned presenting a grizzly sight for the people residing in the industrial stretch of Ernakulam district, comprising places like Edayar, Eloor, Varapuzha, Kothad, Kadamakudy, Cheranallore and Kottuvally, with tonnes of dead fish floating in their fish farms and Periyar river nearby. Most of the affected farmers are those who had taken up cage fish farming buoyed by …

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7 months ago

Another mass fish kill in Periyar River in Kerala after suspected effluent release

The Hindu

A mass fish kill was reported in the Periyar river on May 20 night following suspected release of effluents from industries in the Eloor-Edayar industrial area in Ernakulam district of Kerala. Purushan Eloor, spokesperson of the Periyar Malineekarana Virudha Samithi, said the fish kill was reported along the stretch from Pathalam to Panampukadu near Mulavukad. Pollution Control Board blamed Mr. …

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1 year ago

Climate change threatens what’s left of Japan’s cormorant fishing legacy

The Independent

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1 year ago

All the Fish We Cannot See

Wired

This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It wasn’t until 1945, when oceanographer Martin Johnson dropped nets into the Pacific to take a closer look, that the culprit was definitively unmasked: a vast cloud of marine animals, most smaller than a human hand, that moved from the deep ocean to the surface and …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Fukushima fish tested for first time since nuclear plant water release

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Mysterious ‘monster’ fish washes up on beach

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change takes habitat from big fish, the ocean’s key predators

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish. Species of large fish such as marlin and skipjack live in areas that are among the fastest warming ocean regions, projected to increase by up to 10 …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Woman loses arm in shark attack after mistaking predator for tuna fish

The Independent

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1 year, 3 months ago

Climate change takes habitat from big fish, the ocean’s key predators

LA Times

Fishermen haul tuna in Santa Maria, island of Sal, Cape Verde, on Aug. 25. This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish. Species of large fish such as marlin and skipjack live in areas that are among the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Warnings as ‘fearsome predator’ Portuguese Man O’War spotted on UK coast

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Fisherman airlifted to hospital after shark bite off coast of Portugal

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Fishkill in Lower Ambalipura lake in HSR Layout in Bengaluru

The Hindu

Residents of HSR Layout in Bengaluru are fed up of seeing dead fish floating in the Lower Ambalipura lake for nearly a week now. Raghavendra B. Pachhapur, Senior Project Lead, Action Aid, who has been tracking fishkill in lakes in Bengaluru, said this was the 13th fishkill reported this year. A study by Action Aid in July 2022 showed that …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Divers encounter enigmatic Oarfish with mysterious wounds off Taiwan's coast. Watch video

Hindustan Times

A giant oarfish, a mythical creature that is said to herald earthquakes, was spotted by divers off Taiwan with mysterious holes in its body, as shown in a video that has gone viral on Instagram. Giant Oarfish with strange shark bites found in Taiwan waters The video shows the divers swimming around the shiny silver fish floating near the surface …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Killer whale rams fisherman’s boat in UK waters during latest Orca attack

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

Philippines tries to bring back small fish key to rural diet

Associated Press

TANAUAN, Leyte, Philippines — The Philippines, a nation made up of thousands of islands, is home to about 1.6 million people who work in fisheries, and the majority of those fishers are small-scale harvesters who collectively catch almost half of the nation’s fish. The problem of overfishing is especially detrimental to the country’s poorest people, many of whom earn their …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Millions of dead fish wash up amid heat wave in Australia

Deccan Chronicle

Canberra: Millions of fish have washed up dead in southeastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by floods and hot weather. The Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales state said the fish deaths coincided with a heat wave that put stress on a system that has experienced extreme conditions from wide-scale flooding. It's …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Millions of dead fishes wash up shore as heat wave conditions intensify in Australia

India TV News

Several million dead fish washed up on the shore of southeastern Australia as the country continues to battle a deadly heatwave. The Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales state said the fish deaths coincided with a heat wave that put stress on a system that has experienced extreme conditions from wide-scale flooding. Nature photographer Geoff Looney found huge …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Millions of dead fish clog Australian river as heatwave sweeps region. Video

Hindustan Times

Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region. Populations of fish such as bony herring and carp had boomed in the river following recent floods, according to the state government, but were now dying off in huge numbers as …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Millions of fish dead in the worst mass kill ever to hit Menindee region, in NSW's far west

ABC

Millions of dead fish continue to flow down the Darling River in Menindee in NSW's far west as locals clean up the worst mass kill ever to hit the region. Key points: Menindee has been the site of several mass fish kill events in recent years The dead fish consist of mostly bony bream The Central Darling Shire Council said …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Climate Change Leading To Frequency Of Fish Mass Extinctions, Says Research

News 18

Finally, after establishing a historical baseline, the team used air and water temperature-based models to predict the frequency of future summer kills. The models predicted a six-fold increase in the frequency of fish mortality events by 2100 based on local water temperature projections, while local air temperature projections predicted a 34-fold increase. “If there are eight summer kills now, the …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Plight of Japan’s fatty ‘katsuo’ fish may foreshadow climate change

The Independent

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2 years, 5 months ago

Bengaluru lakes see eight instances of fish kill in seven months of 2022, finds ActionAid report

The Hindu

In an alarming trend, a total of eight instances of fish kill were reported in Bengaluru lakes within seven months of 2022, surpassing the annual fish kill numbers in the last five years. “Three cases of fish kill in Haralur lake within five years is a matter of serious concern and sewage seems to be the major reason, apart from …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Cod and chips off the menu? Popular fish will become harder to catch amid rising sea temperatures

Daily Mail

It's the go-to meal for a visit to the seaside, but cod and chips could soon be off the menu, according to a new study. Researchers from Rutgers University have warned that rising sea temperatures will mean fewer popular fish species will be available to catch over the next 200 years. Rising sea temperatures are shrinking our favourite fish including …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Fast-warming Gulf of Maine set new record in 2021

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — An ocean heat wave sent temperatures soaring to a new high last year in the Gulf of Maine, continuing an alarming trend in the important marine ecosystem. The surface temperature was more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the long-term average and topped the previous record in 2012, according to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland. …

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3 years ago

Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond

LA Times

Forces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one of the world’s most important fisheries. “Something is going to emerge and become the more dominant species, and something is going to decline because it can’t adapt to that changing food web.” A …

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3 years ago

Is the climate crisis driving rare bluefin tuna to British waters?

The Independent

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3 years, 5 months ago

Fish are ‘getting addicted to meth’ flushed into rivers, study warns

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

As global warming causes more lake heatwaves, species threatened, mass fish die-offs predicted

Firstpost

Unlike those living elsewhere, most lake animals cannot simply move to another habitat once their lake becomes uninhabitable. But since 1970, numbers of freshwater vertebrates, including birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals, have declined by a staggering 83 percent through the extraction of lake water, pollution, invasive species and disease. Warmer lakes hold less oxygen and lose more water through …

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3 years, 7 months ago

At least 40 tonnes of dead fish wash up on shore of polluted Lebanese lake

The Independent

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3 years, 8 months ago

Warming climate is driving marine animals from the equator to the poles

Firstpost

Poleward migration was more pronounced north of the equator, where oceans have warmed more quickly than in the south. “Global warming has been changing life in the ocean for at least 60 years,” senior author Mark Costello, a professor of marine biology at the University of Auckland, told AFP. By contrast, species living in the high seas “can move with …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Nearly 50,000 salmon escape from Scottish fish farm

The Independent

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4 years, 5 months ago

Ultra-black fishes in darkest parts of ocean found. Check these terrifying photos

India TV News

Scientists have discovered one of the blackest materials on Earth. According to reports, some of the deep-sea fish have ultra-black skin capable of soaking up almost all light that hits it and consequently makes the fish nearly invisible. Image Source : KAREN OSBORN, SMITHSONIAN One specimen of the ultra-black fish species Anoplogaster cornuta. For creatures trying to swim undetected, living …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Salmon population highest in 9 years despite warm weather

Associated Press

BANGOR, Maine — The number of Atlantic salmon swimming upstream in the Penobscot River is already the highest in nine years, despite warm water temperatures. On Monday, researchers with the Maine Department of Marine Resources said they counted over 1,300 salmon migrating upstream so far this year. Jason Valliere, a marine resource scientist at the Maine Department of Marine Resources …

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Fifteen people attacked a day by fish in Benidorm as people with moles warned

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