Angling for a Better Way to Farm Fish--And Vegetables, Too (Scientific American)

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:42:46 GMT

Confounded by the inexhaustible array of choices available when you stroll through a supermarket today? Well, here's another one to add to the list: How would you like your environmental degradation? By land or by sea? Whether it's pesticides and fertilizers leaching out of croplands or marine fish stocks vanishing by the boatful, every food purchase carries increasingly visible ecological ...

Park to eliminate rainbow trout from streams (The Maryville Daily Times)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:18:40 GMT

Several streams in the Tremont area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed as officials begin poisoning non-native fish in order to restore a native species.

When baby fish appear in your tank, kill 'em or keep 'em (Arizona Daily Wildcat)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:26:34 GMT

As an 18-year-old college freshman, I am about to become a great-great-great grandmother. To baby fish. A fish tank containing four orange platyfish sits on my desk. One of them, Shasta, is pregnant. I bought my first three fish over a year ago.

A fishy business (The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:43:03 GMT

For the past several months, there’s been a lot of commotion at A.E. Wood Fish Hatchery in San Marcos. surrounds raising enough fish to supply hundreds of Texas rivers and lakes, employees battled another issue.

Local physicist's metal helping save soldiers' lives (KOMO Seattle)

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:24:28 GMT

Fremont physicist Christina Lomasney makes metal magic happen at her company, Modumetal. The laboratory is filled with containers that resemble dirty fish tanks, but inside each one Lomasney is growing an alternative to steel.