NEWSWORTHY
The rising tide of sustainable seafood
To safeguard the future of fish, more seafood businesses must commit to sustainability, and consumers must be even more resolute in demanding a transparent seafood supply chain and supporting sustainability with every purchase.
Unique genetic adaptation lets deep-sea fish see color in darkness
While people and other vertebrates are color blind in dim light, some deep-sea fish may possess keen color vision to thrive in the near total darkness of their extreme environment thanks to a unique genetic adaptation, scientists said on Thursday. Researchers analyzed the genomes of ...
80% of young eels farmed in Japan may have been smuggled from Taiwan via Hong Kong
Eel is a prized summer delicacy in Japan, and the nation’s imports of young eels could spark international criticism.
Fugu grow faster and without deadly toxin at hotelier's hot spring farms in Tohoku
A hotel operator in the Tohoku region is one of a small number of companies that have launched businesses in depopulated rural areas to raise torafugu, a high-quality variety of the poisonous puffer fish prized as a delicacy in Japan, using tanks filled with ...
Wealthy buyers in Asia grow more interested in Japan's nishikigoi ornamental carp
An increasing number of wealthy buyers in Asia have shown an interest in nishikigoi (Japanese colored varieties of carp), pushing up the market for the luxury ornamental fish. In October last year, a Chinese collector made a successful bid of ¥203 million in a nishikigoi ...
The real 'Jaws': Great white shark's genetic secrets revealed
The great white shark, one of the most fearsome predators in the world's oceans in both fact and fiction, is a formidable creature — right down to its genes. Scientists on Monday said they have decoded the genome of Earth's largest predatory fish, detecting numerous ...
Small tropical reef fish were able to recognize themselves in a mirror, scientists said Thursday, in a finding that raises provocative questions about assessing self-awareness and cognitive abilities in animals. The study involved experiments in which the bluestreak cleaner wrasse was subject to a mirror ...
Japan sushi chain worker uploads video of fish's journey from trash can to cutting board in Osaka
The operator of one of Japan's largest sushi restaurant chains said Wednesday that video footage recently uploaded to the internet showed one of its part-time kitchen workers throwing sliced fish into a trash can and then returning it to a cutting board at an ...
The authority that oversees Australia's largest river system was accused of "maladministration," "gross negligence" and ignoring climate science Thursday, when its waterways were carpeted with hundreds of thousands of dead fish. A Royal Commission report into the Murray-Darling Basin Authority — which happened to coincide ...
As many as a million fish are believed to have died along the banks of a major river system in drought-battered eastern Australia, and the authorities warned Monday of more deaths to come. The banks of the Murray-Darling Rivers are thick with rotten fish, with ...
In 2019, how hungry is Japan for whale meat?
Japan is currently the object of criticism for its decision to leave the International Whaling Commission, and resume commercial whaling in territorial waters and its own exclusive economic zone. People who support the move cite either cultural reasons — Japan traditionally, they assert, is ...
Japanese boat owners charged in Hawaii with helping smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins
Prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins, worth about $58,000 on the black market. It's against U.S. law to remove the fins of sharks at sea. Prosecutors say the ...
