| To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1354) | 6/1/2017 3:18:10 PM | | From: Neeka | | | | "Odd News
Largest bass caught in Texas lake using McDonald's chicken McNugget
Published June 01, 2017
Fox News
Matthew McNellis and his girlfriend caught the massive bass last month by using a chicken McNugget as bait. (Matthew McNellis)
Matthew McNellis and his girlfriend went fishing in May at Lake Bardwell in Ennis and had no luck catching anything, McNellis told KDAF.
McNellis' girlfriend then suggested using a chicken nugget they bought from McDonald's as bait. To their surprise, they reeled in a 2-and-a-half-foot long bass that weighed more than 10 pounds.
The Highview Marina declared it as the biggest fish caught at the lake, posting a photo of it on Facebook.
The bass won't be turning into a Filet-O-Fish sandwich anytime soon. The couple tossed the bass back in the water at the end.
McNellis told the station that he planned on continuing the fast food bait trend by using Wendy's seasoned French fries the next time he goes fishing.
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| From: Jon Koplik | 9/3/2017 12:52:01 AM | | | | | | Detroit Free Press -- How antidepressants are ending up in Great Lakes fish .......................
Sept. 1, 2017
How antidepressants are ending up in Great Lakes fish
By Keith Matheny
Scientists say antidepressants could change the ecosystem
A new study might depress anyone concerned with Great Lakes water quality.
Antidepressant drugs, making their way through an increasing number of people's bodies, getting excreted in small amounts into their toilets, and moving through the wastewater treatment process to lakes and rivers, are being found in multiple Great Lakes fish species' brains, new research by the University of Buffalo has found.
Researchers detected high concentrations of both the active ingredients and metabolites byproducts of the parent drug of popular antidepressant pharmaceuticals including Zoloft, Prozac, Celexa and Sarafem in the brains of fish caught in the Niagara River connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Affected species included smallmouth and largemouth bass, rudd, rock bass, white bass, white and yellow perch, walleye, bowfin and steelhead. While the concentrations aren't potentially harmful to humans eating the fish, they are problematic, said University at Buffalo chemistry professor Diana Aga, the lead author of the study published Aug. 16 in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
"It is a threat to biodiversity, and we should be very concerned," she said.
Previous research has shown antidepressants in water create "suicidal shrimp" that swim toward light instead of away from it, making them vulnerable to predator fish and birds, Aga said.
"Other research teams have shown that antidepressants can affect the feeding behavior of fish, or their survival instincts," Aga said. "Some fish won't acknowledge the presence of predators as much."
That has the potential to affect delicate ecological balances in the Great Lakes, already under siege from invasive species. Ultimately, it could disrupt the sport fishing that fuels a multibillion-dollar industry in Michigan.
The use of antidepressant drugs in the U.S. increased 65% between 2002 and 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Portions of the drugs are excreted in human waste, and are now found in Great Lakes fish.
Prior to her research, Aga expected that higher concentrations of the drugs would be found in larger fish, predators higher in the food web, due to bioaccumulation, a process by which big fish, eating medium-sized fish, that eat smaller fish, amplifies the concentration of contaminants each step of the way.
But that wasn't the case with the fish studied, "which means they are not getting it by eating smaller fish; they're getting it from being in the water," she said.
Sertraline, the active ingredient in Zoloft, was found at levels estimated 20 times higher than levels in Niagara River water. And levels of norsertraline, the drug's breakdown product, were even greater, reaching concentrations often hundreds of times higher than that found in the river. That means the drugs appear to be accumulating in the fish over their prolonged exposures to them, Aga said.
Concern for pharmaceutical contamination of lakes and rivers has risen with the emerging technological ability to detect the drugs in very small quantities in water bodies and as use of the prescription drugs has exploded.
The percentage of Americans taking antidepressants rose 65% between 2002 and 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. From 2011 to 2014, some 12.7% of Americans age 12 or older had taken antidepressant medication within the past month.
Most wastewater treatment plants don't screen for such drugs, only screening for waste solids and treating to kill E. coli bacteria.
"There is no way I could tell, because I am not measuring for those compounds," said Sree Mullapudi, director of wastewater operations and compliance at the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority. The utility provides wastewater treatment for Ypsilanti city and township, and seven other townships in the region, processing more than 8 billion gallons of sewage per year at its plant near Willow Run Airport.
If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or Michigan Department of Environmental Quality confirmed negative impacts to the ecosystem from antidepressants, regulatory revisions would likely occur compelling wastewater treatment plants to implement filtration for those chemicals, Mullapudi said. But in an industry focused on meeting state and federal regulatory requirements, unless and until such a governmental mandate happens, few treatment plants would have the financial wherewithal to unilaterally take action, he said.
Noted Aga, "These plants are focused on removing nitrogen, phosphorus and dissolved organic carbon, but there are so many other chemicals that are not prioritized that impact our environment. As a result, wildlife are exposed to all of these chemicals.
"Fish are receiving this cocktail of drugs 24 hours a day, and we are now finding these drugs in their brains."
Aga said she will be partnering with fish biologists to look at the minimum levels at which exposures to antidepressants affect fish behavior and biology.
Contact Keith Matheny: 313-222-5021 or kmatheny@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @keithmatheny.
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| From: Jon Koplik | 11/12/2017 11:05:40 AM | | | | | | Pre-historic Shark From Dinosaur Era With 300 Teeth Found Swimming Offcoast of Portugal
Shark Dating Back to 800 Million Years Found Swimming Offcoast of Portugal
Updated: November 12, 2017
By India.com
Scientists working on the Algarve coast were in for a surprise when they caught a rare frilled shark earlier this week. Termed as the pre-historic shark, the creature dates back to 80 million years making it the oldest species on the planet. While it has a long slim snake-like body it has a strange circular arrangement of 300 teeth. Researchers from the Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere were working on a project to ‘minimise unwanted catches in commercial fishing’ when they stumbled upon this shark.
As per reports, the Institute said that the fish measured 1.5 metes in length was caught from the waters off the resort of Portimao at a depth of 700 meters. According to the scientists, the shark is “little known in terms of its biology or environment” as it lives in the great depths in the Atlantic and off the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. They said that this marine animal is rarely caught and even these examples will not make it o the research laboratories. There is also little footage of the shark in its natural habitat.
Professor Margarida Castro of the University of the Algarve reportedly said that the shark gets its name from the frilled arrangement of its 300 teeth, “which allows it to trap squid, fish and other sharks in sudden lunges”. This isn’t the first time that a frilled shark has been caught, last year a fisherman called Roman Fedortsov had posted pictures of a frilled shark he caught in Russia. Frilled sharks are known for having extra gills, big mouths, eyes on the side of their heads and also spineless back. fins. They are members of some of the most ancient groups of sharks in the world.
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| To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1357) | 4/20/2018 4:29:35 PM | | From: Neeka | | | | Video at site.
The Path of the Unseen Whale Just as a hunter leaves a trail in the snow, a whale forms prints on the water’s surface.
Authored by by Glen Jeffries
April 25th, 2017
The multi-hour experience of whale watching can generally be edited down to a few key frames: a burst of action on the clock face of the sea; the animal’s slow, elegant arc; and the Y of the tail, slipping below the surface. At that point, most whale watchers get distracted, turning back to their cameras to check if they pressed the button at the exact right moment.
There’s actually more to see. Just as patient moviegoers are treated to “credit cookies” at the end of a film, those who keep watching the water are rewarded. Look where the whale was and you will see in its place, for a short time, a completely smooth, undisturbed crown of glassy water.
I found a mention of the phenomenon in a single paragraph of Philip Hoare’s hugely popular 2008 non-fiction book The Whale. He refers to the “slick of flat water” with an Iñupiaq term—qala, translated as “the path of the unseen whale.”
How evocative! I began to look into the word. Google returns a single relevant result: source notes to Hoare’s book. It seems he heard it from a biology teacher in Massachusetts. The biology teacher, I found out, while speaking with her over the phone, heard the word from a whale disentanglement expert. The whale disentanglement expert told me by email that he learned it from an Iñupiaq whale hunter from Barrow, Alaska.
The search eventually led me to another knowledgeable member of the Iñupiat: Qaiyaan Harcharek, a subsistence research coordinator at the North Slope Department of Wildlife Management in Barrow. He explains that the qala (pronounced similarly to “Carla”) is “almost a form of communication” between whale and man. It is even more informative to an Iñupiaq hunter than a paw print on the ground. The qala is more immediate; it reveals the precise location of a whale’s last surface movement. And it remains visible longer than the ephemeral spray from a blowhole, providing a signpost on an otherwise homogenous seascape. It is “our way of being able to follow the whale,” Harcharek says. Hunting a whale is chasing the qala. From the qala, a hunter can also infer the size of the whale; the larger the whale and the deeper the dive, the larger the surface print.
This short scientific animation narrated by Rachel Levy of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, explains how flukeprints are formed.
Qala derives from the verb qalat—“the boiling or churning of water”—and can also be used to refer to the wake behind an oar or a propeller. But in the context of a hunt, qala is “a really special word,” says Harcharek. Whale hunters will not willingly enter the qala with their boats. The qala is the confirmed and respected domain of the whale.
Hoare has romanticized the prints of the qala as “mirrors into the whale’s soul; and mirrors into ours.” Less of a mirror, the flukeprints are more of a signature in disappearing ink: the whale’s contribution to the canon of the oldest writing known on Earth.
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| From: Snowshoe | 6/19/2018 3:35:44 PM | | | | | | Pacific pink salmon found in Norway...
Humpy invasion
Full story: craigmedred.news
The successful Russian fish came from the Sea of Okhotsk on the western side of the Bering Sea from Alaska. Early summer spawners, they proved well suited to the White Sea, according to the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES.)
These humpies have since spread as far south as England, Scotland, and Ireland, and swum through the North Sea into the Baltic Sea to invade Sweden and Finland.
A “single pink salmon egg-transfer from an odd-year population resulted in the establishment of local self-reproducing populations in the White Sea rivers of Murmansk and Archangelsk regions of Russia with the adult returns fluctuating between 60,000 to 700,000 fish during the period 1989 through 2009,” according to a white paper prepared by an ICES working group five years ago.
At that time, humpies were reported to have also established themselves in 11 rivers in northern Norway, but they were clearly not done with their colonization. The fish began showing up in streams all over Northern Europe last year.
“There was a formidable invasion in rivers all along the Norwegian coast with more than 11,000 pink salmon being caught or observed in 272 rivers,” Sandlund wrote. “Spawning was observed in many rivers along the coast. This last winter, fertilized eggs, fry with partly absorbed yolk sac, and fry in the process of smoltification, have been collected as far south as Bergen, and they have also been caught throughout northwestern Europe.”
This is not good news for Atlantic salmon which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has on its “red list” as “vulnerable, ” a ranking between “near threatened” and “endangered.” |
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| From: slowmo | 6/24/2018 1:47:01 PM | | | | | | Just returned from a Lake Erie charter trip, not impressed one bit!
Being a lifelong freshwater fisherman from SW Ohio, I envisioned a few 5-7lb. Walleye or better. Not the case. Most were the 151/4''variety with 15'' being the limit. The largest was 3 lb.
We started at 5:30 am, 4 guys, 2 Captains, ALL OF US drift fishing of course, with 24 fish being the daily limit.
The Captain had a fish counter on board and when we hit 24 at 9;45, poles in and we raced back to shore. It was nothing more than a limit grab, as fast as possible. We never threw back smaller ones for the chance at bigger.
This was my first Charter and will be my last. Maybe I was disillusioned. Having caught a 7 lb. and 5,5lb largemouth and 8 lb pike 20 minutes from my house at my favorite small lake, this trip was a huge let down.
I won't mention the Charter, but it was $680 to fish and $200 for sleeping rooms. And.....yes, I caught 1 walleye lol. |
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| From: Jon Koplik | 10/8/2018 11:05:35 AM | | | | | | Time mag. / raise flies / feed small fry fish / then feed to aquaculture fish .......................
October 15, 2018
AgriProtein
Turning waste into food
Aquaculture, where fish are raised and “farmed” in controlled circumstances, helps thwart the environmental consequences of depleting wild fisheries, but there’s a catch-22. Harvesting the small fry at the bottom of the marine food chain needed to feed farmed fish can also shrink wild stocks. AgriProtein founder Jason Drew, a South African who calls himself an “environmental capitalist,” came up with a solution while walking past a food waste dump swarming with flies. Insects have long been used as bait, so why not purposely grow a supply of flies that could serve to feed fish? After all, flies and their maggots will eat almost anything -- including organic waste from restaurants and supermarkets.
It took several years of trial and error -- turns out that flies don’t like to breed on command, or en masse. But now Drew’s flagship fly farm in Cape Town turns some 276 tons of organic waste into 26 tons of pure insect protein a day, which is sold as food to fish farmers as well as the local poultry industry as well. Last year, AgriProtein has partnered with engineering group Christof Industries to develop a blueprint for rapidly rolling out fly farms, with a goal of building 25 a year, and reaching 200 around the world by 2027. The company has also raised $105 million to break ground on three new farms within the next 12 months, in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. As the sustainability of our food sources grows more precarious with a burgeoning population, insects are increasingly seen as a viable alternative -- both for human and animal consumption.
-- Aryn Baker
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| From: Biotech Jim | 11/6/2018 4:10:18 PM | | | | | | Caught a bunch of smallmouth bass the other day, nice ones, but one seemed to have a muscle wasting disease or simply was dying of old age. Here is that poor fella compared to a nice, chunky/healthy.one.
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