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A facility in Qassim region has been fined SR500,000 ($133,000) after the Saudi Food and Drug Authority found the documentation of a shipment it imported had been tampered with, with the intention of selling a type of fish banned from…
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A mother encourages her daughter to fully open her mouth to swallow a live fish holding “the medicine” she believes will help cure her child’s asthma, as scores clamor about, gulping down their own fish and hoping for the best. Each…
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The ghost catfish transforms from glassy to glam when white light passes through its mostly transparent body. Now, scientists know why. The fish’s iridescence comes from light bending as it travels through microscopic striped structures…
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Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica sits a deep-sea chimera of an ecosystem. Jacó Scar is a methane seep, where the gas escapes from sediment into the seawater, but the seep isn’t cold like the others found before it. Instead, geochemical…
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Fish prices have decreased by more than half in parts of Yemen after a ban on exports created an oversupply in local markets. Fishmongers and fishermen in the southern city of Al-Mukalla and other areas of the Red Sea province of…
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For the first time, researchers have harnessed the body’s own chemistry to “grow” electrodes inside the tissues of living fish, blurring the boundary between biology and machines. The technique uses the body’s sugars to turn an injected…
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The internationally recognized government of Yemen has halted all exports of fresh fish in response to a fish shortage in the local market and soaring domestic prices. Maj. Salem Abdullah Al-Soqotri, minister of agriculture, irrigation,…
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Some fish can recognize their own faces in photos and mirrors, an ability usually attributed to humans and other animals considered particularly brainy, such as chimpanzees, scientists report. Finding the ability in fish suggests that…
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French researcher Frederic Saintol received a phone call in 2011 from a fisherman working in the Tarn River in southern France, telling him information that some might not believe, as he noticed that the fish had learned to catch pigeons.…
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A new study has discovered a large number of Antarctic fish with hideous skin tumors. Researchers at Ohio State University believe that the parasitic disease is spreading among fish as a result of climate change, and changing conditions…
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