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Dosed salmon, clipped fins, a ‘dinner bell’: How far is too far in helping starving orca?
The emergency effort to save a critically ill orca whale is an experiment without precedent. An international team of scientists is piloting techniques to treat a wild, free-swimming orca, one of the largest predators on Earth. The effort includes serving up live fish pumped with medicine and playing a unique tone that one researcher likened to a “dinner bell.” A federal permit approved Aug. 8 provides the clearest look yet at the details of an operation that raises questions even for those involved about the proper limits of human intervention. >click to read<17:39
Vancouver Aquarium wants to mix conservation with commercial aquaculture!
The Vancouver Aquarium has long trumpeted its dedication to conservation of aquatic life. Under a new and potentially controversial initiative, the institution wants to have its fish and eat them, too, by launching into the commercial aquaculture business. The pitch goes like this: local rockfish populations such as those in Howe Sound have suffered due to poaching, while European and Japanese eels have been heavily overharvested, including for the sushi market. Enter the aquarium with the notion of sustainable farming of rockfish and wolf eels to take some pressure off wild stocks while turning a buck at the same time. Read the rest here 10:33
