Fish
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for 243kg giant bluefin at Tokyo auction – video
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highe…
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction
Kiyoshi Kimura will turn prized 243kg fish into sushi rolls selling for £2.4o at his restaurant chainA sushi e…
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Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year
Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy …
- Animals, Antarctica, Australia news, China, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Food, Marine life, Russia, Wildlife, World news
‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica
Conservationists warn actions and ambitions of two super powers could lead to overexploitation of vital food s…
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New ghost shark species with unusually long nose discovered in deep seas off New Zealand
The narrow-nosed spookfish is also found in Australian waters and is distinctive for its elongated snout and w…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Fishing industry, Global development, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
‘It’s not like chicken farming’: why manta rays are chopped up in Sri Lanka
The gill plates of the extremely intelligent fish – many species of which are already categorised as endangere…
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Researchers near Japan capture footage of deepest fish ever recorded underwater – video
Scientists have captured footage of a fish swimming more than 8km underwater, setting a new record for the dee…
- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Farming, Fish, Flooding, Food, Oceans, South and Central Asia, World news
‘White gold’: why shrimp aquaculture is a solution that caused a huge problem
In the 1980s, farmers in Bangladesh went from paddies to ponds, letting salt water flood their land. Now milli…
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Largest freshwater fish ever recorded caught in Cambodia
Giant stingray snagged by local fisher in Mekong River weighs nearly 300kgThe world’s largest recorded freshwa…
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Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs
Up to 42% of company’s fish have died in warm water areas this year, with CEO warning climate change is ‘faste…
- Asia Pacific, Biodiversity, Biology, Conservation, Environment, Fish, Global development, India, Japan, Mumbai, Myanmar, Rivers, Science, South and Central Asia, World news, Zoology
Wolverine fish and blind eel among 212 new freshwater species
Report from Shoal on 2021’s newly described species shows ‘there are still hundreds and hundreds more freshwat…
- Business, Cetaceans, Coastlines, Dolphins, Environment, Fish, Marine life, Oceans, Plastics, Pollution, Shipping industry, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Travel and transport, Water transport, Wildlife, World news
Nurdles: the worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet th…
- Asia Pacific, Energy, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Fukushima, Health, Japan, Marine life, Nuclear power, Oceans, Water, World news
Everything you need to know about the plan to release treated Fukushima water
Japan has announced it will dump 1m tonnes of contaminated water into the ocean, sparking controversyFukushima…
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Taiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to ‘salmon’
Dozens of people have changed names to include ‘gui yu’ to take advantage of sushi promotionA Taiwanese offici…