Essay on Fish

How the Puffer Fish puffs up Deep down in the ocean coral, there was a bright tan fish named Puff and he had a couple friends always around him. Puff and his friends loved to travel the sea. Some days they traveled short distances and other days they would swim for so long they didn’t recognize where they were. One day one of Puff’s friends said, “Hey guys, we should travel to the next door coral community. There we can find many new fish to be friends with.” “Yea, that’s a great idea”, said…

themself. Fishing supports wildlife and fisheries management while contributing to conservation. Angling acts as an important wildlife management tool by helping stabilize some fish species and eliminating invasive species. Many fishermen tag their catch and release them, which allows biologists to track the fish. Tagging fish allows biologists to track the migration patterns, mortality ratings, spawning activity, predator-prey relationships and population size along with many others. All…

table quantifies the number of amino acids that are different in the same position of the amino acid sequence of myosin heavy chain 6 alpha protein in zebra fish, cod, tilapia, salmon and flounder. The sequence alignment from the NCIB website is used to compare the genetic sequence of myosin and determine how closely related two species of fish are based on the number of amino acid sequence they have in common. The table indicates that flounder and tilapia have the least variation in the genetic…

7 Ways To Avoid Fish Ich In Your Fish Tank This fish ich article is a follow up from a previous post entitled “Using Rocks In An Aquarium Design“. Imagine looking into your fish tank one day and seeing your listless fish with tiny white spots on it looking as if someone powdered it with salt. This is a clear sign of fish ich and not only do they make your beautiful fish look weird and ugly, they will also be detrimental to the health of the fish. Fish Ich Fish ich can affect anyone’s aquarium…

doing so would be just as beneficial to captive fish. Fish are a hugely exploited research model as millions of tons of fish are farmed across the UK. Despite the massive commercial production occurring, inadequate research has been done on improving fish welfare in stressful situations. The large growth of the aquaculture industry should be synonymous with research about how to remedy production problems and facilitate humane treatment. In captivity, fish tanks are relatively under-stimulating…

Now in the 21st century, fish is becoming the world’s largest wild food source. Fish are a very important and highly consumed resource for the majority of the world, but in the wild, it is in limited supply. With commercial fishing increasing higher and higher yields of fish, the supply of available fish is becoming increasingly low. Fishing grounds that once used to be thriving with stocks of fish are becoming an expended resource. “Fish consumption increased by 31% from 1990 to 1997 but the…

killing each other in order to survive. Hatchery fish have been in the endangered species list because there has been a lot of predators that need the fish to survive or else they will starve. Hatcheries are doing what they can, especially the Salmon River Fish Hatchery they raise and release different type of fish such as steelhead, chinook salmon, coho salmon, brown trout, and landlocked salmon. The hatchery releases over one million pounds of fish in more than 1,200 public streams, ponds,…

installation of "fish elevators". Fish elevators are a more natural way for the fish to make the crossing past the dam. The elevator has different sections that are increasing in height. The salmon use their natural ability to jump to progress higher and higher until they have reached the other side of the dam. However these contraptions are not for every dam. Only smaller dams can benefit from this process. Larger dams such as the Grand Coulee Dam cannot make use of fish elevators. Fish…

In “The Fish”, Elizabeth Bishop described the fish that was being caught and through the imagery readers can decipher the age of the fish. In lines 9-11 of the “The Fish”, it describes that the fishes’ “brown skin hung in strips like an ancient wallpaper”, the readers can use this information and guess that the fish must be at an old age. It would be different if Bishop said that the fish was old because then you couldn’t see why the fish was considered old. Bishop described that the fish has…

topics were discussed in the Frontline documentary, The Fish on my Plate, as journalist Paul Greenberg began a challenge of eating fish every day for an entire year. Greenberg defined this challenge as a way to better understand how fish are beneficial to diets as well as the environment. As this challenge progressed, Greenberg explored the global consumption of fish, overfishing, aquaculture, and the health benefits found in the consumption of fish. I had a few preconceived notions about the…