Archive for September, 2009

Slippery secrets of the eel’s epic journey

Fish2Fork Sep 29th 2009

Some of the secrets of the epic migration journey of the European eel have been uncovered by scientists.
They tagged 22 eels and used satellite technology to watch them on the first part of the journey to their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea.
The scientists were able to monitor the behaviour of the eels during the [...]

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Marine reserves a must, says Greenpeace

Fish2Fork Sep 24th 2009

Those of us who’ve been trying to make sense of what sort of impact destructive overfishing is having on marine life know things are bad – when you have a global fleet with the capacity to catch every edible thing in our oceans four times over, patchy regulations at best, and a massive incentive for [...]

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