Topic 15 of 58: Fish
Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (19:01) |
Wolf (wolf)
Got an aquarium or pond? What kind of fish do you keep?
13 responses total.
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Response 1 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (19:03) * 5 lines
Of all the fishies in the sea
My favorite is the Bass.
He climbs the little seaweed trees
And slides down on his...
Hands and knees.
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Response 2 of 13: Isabel (Isabel) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:07) * 1 lines
Hands and knees ??????
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Response 3 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (22:12) * 1 lines
It rhymes with "seaweed trees"....
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Response 4 of 13: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (08:56) * 1 lines
ha-ha! Some people would call that female logic!! But we understand you perfectly!
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Response 5 of 13: Marcia (MarciaH) * Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (18:23) * 1 lines
Just keeping the little rhyme in the G-rated category *wink*
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Response 6 of 13: Riette Walton (riette) * Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (13:49) * 1 lines
right-ho, lass!
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Response 7 of 13: Julie (cascadeclimber) * Sun, Nov 24, 2002 (14:20) * 9 lines
I just had a very scary expereince with some fish yesturday. I had an assignment for my ecology class to complete 16 hours outside of class doing things that had to do with the California Channel Islands. So my friend Michael and I went to Santa Catalina Island to go snorkeling and take pictures with the underwater camera.
The water was very cold and more so was the air temperature. I hade on a short wet suit, but Michael was lucky enough to rent a long wet suit so he stayed pretyy warm. The best way to attract the fish is of course by feeding them. I go snorkeling at Catalina about 3 or 4 times every summer. But the method I distributed the food this time was slightly differnt than I did all the other times and that was a big mistake.
Usually I put the brown food pellets in a salt shaker container so only a little come out at a time but the scent attracts a lot fo fish closer to me. But this time I couldn't find the salt shaker container I normally use so I had to use a vile shaped conatiner with a cap. So I unscrewed the cap underwater and dumped out a little bit of the food. BIG MISTAKE! We must have been the only ones snorkeling for many weeks cause these fish were more aggressive than they normally are in the warm summer months.
Anyway, one of the times I unsrewed the container I think I was going a little too slow for what happened next. A school of fish swam right underneath me and one very large silver one bit my finger. I cried out underwater as blood started to gush from the wound. Blood looks pretty dark under the water. I was really cold too so I barely felt anything. The only thing that came to my mind was SHARKS!! Michael could tell I was in trouble so he helped me back to shore.
Fortunatly I finshed my roll of film so at least I got my assignment done. I think I will go snorkeling in the summer next time when its warmer and there is more people. I will also find another salt shaker too. This method I used was bad. I still had fun yesturday though. I never let a little fish bite ruin my fun, lol. Though I am lucky and thankful I didn't lose my finger.
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Response 8 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Nov 25, 2002 (08:39) * 7 lines
I wonder if the location where you were is on
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>http://www1.californiacoastline.org
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>which is the amazing set of phots of the California coastline.
That was scary, Julie! How's your finger now?
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Response 9 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (17:11) * 23 lines
Here's a breakout animal
from the Wikipedia.
Nomura's jellyfish (Stomolophus nomurai) is a very large Japanese jellyfish. Known in Japanese as echizen kurage (???????), it is one of the largest species of jellyfish.
Image link: Echizen Kurage
Growing up to 2m (6 ft 7 in) in diameter and weighing up to 200kg (440 lb), Nomura's Jellyfish reside primarily in the waters between China and Japan, primarily centralized in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea where they spawn. While stings of this large jellyfish are painful, they are not usually toxic enough to cause serious harm in humans. However, the jellyfish's sting has been reported as fatal in some cases by causing a build-up of fluid in the lungs. As a precaution, fisherman encountering these jellyfish wear eye protection and protective clothes. To date there have only been eight reported deaths from the Nomura's sting.
The most recent problems first became obvious in late August 2005 when Japanese fishermen fishing for squid, anchovies, salmon and yellowtail began finding huge numbers of the jellyfish in their nets. Often, the weight of the echizen kurage broke the nets or crushed other fish in the net. In the worst cases, as many as 1000 Nomura's jellyfish have been trapped in one net [1]. Any fish trapped within the net with the jellyfish that survive were too poisoned and slimed by the tentacles to be of commercial value.
The areas that were known to be hardest hit were the Sea of Japan coasts of Fukui and Shimane prefectures in western Japan.
In some places, jellyfish density is reported to be "one hundred times higher" than normal, without explanation. There was a previous spike in the population recorded in 1958 and in 1995. There have been widely disseminated theories as to the cause of the population increase, but no definite explanation. One such theory is that development of ports and harbors along the Chinese coast have provided an increase in structures for the Nomura larvae to attach themselves to. Another is that the seas off of China have been inundated with nutrient-rich run-off from farms and industry. Yet another is that China has over-fished their waters and reduced the populations of the jellyfish's natural predators, which fed on the larvae while they are still zooplankton. A final possibility is global warming which would cause the heating up of the seawater and encourage jellyfish breeding. However all such theories remain speculative, as no research into the cause has yet been concluded.
In an attempt to utilize the jellyfish in a productive manner, coastal communities in Japan are doing their best to promote jellyfish as a novelty food, sold dried and salted.
Students in Obama, Fukui (Japan) have managed to turn them into tofu, and jellyfish collagen is reported to be beneficial to the skin.
The jellyfish population has become such a substantial problem for Japan that it has led the government to form a committee to combat the problem.
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Response 10 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (17:12) * 15 lines
From cnn.com
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A slimy jellyfish weighing as much as a sumo wrestler has Japan's fishing industry in the grip of its poisonous tentacles.
Vast numbers of Echizen kurage, or Nomura's jellyfish, have appeared around Japan's coast since July, clogging and ripping fishing nets and forcing fishermen to spend hours hacking them apart before bringing home their reduced catches.
Representatives of fishing communities around the country gathered in Tokyo on Thursday, hoping to thrash out solutions to a pest that has spread from the Japan Sea to the Pacific coast.
"It's a terrible problem. They're like aliens," Noriyuki Kani of the fisheries federation in Toyama, northwest of Tokyo, told Reuters ahead of the conference.
There are no official figures on the size of the problem, but Kani says the financial losses are obvious.
"If your nets are full of jellyfish, of course there is no space for fish," he said.
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Response 11 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (17:12) * 19 lines
more from the above article
Cutting up and disposing of the giants can turn a three-hour fishing trip into a 10-hour marathon, while valuable fish are poisoned or crushed under the weight of the unwanted catch.
And what a catch. One Echizen kurage can be up to 2 meters (6 feet, 7 inches) in diameter and weigh up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds).
Despite their size, the invertebrates aren't toxic enough to cause serious harm to humans, but fishermen often wear goggles and protective clothing to avoid stings when dealing with them.
Much about the jellyfish, the largest variety found in the Sea of Japan, remains a mystery, according to Hitoshi Iizumi of the Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute in Niigata.
Researchers have suggested they drift to Japan on currents after reproducing in South Korean or Chinese waters, a theory that Japan wants to investigate with the other two nations.
But with relations between Japan and its nearest neighbors at a low ebb, Tokyo wants to avoid apportioning blame.
"We have a neutral stance," said Yukihiko Sakamoto of the National Fisheries Agency, which organized Thursday's conference.
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Response 12 of 13: Alpha Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (17:49) * 1 lines
oh my goodness! that thing's huge! isn't it amazing the things we keep finding in the sea?
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Response 13 of 13: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 22, 2006 (17:51) * 1 lines
More buzz about this than any other creature on the net right now.
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