Fish The Healthy Alternative

Are you a meat eating carnivore who loves to eat a thick juicy steak or a big thick meaty hamburger on a sesame seed bun? If you are a red meat eater you may want to consider cutting back on eating so much red meat and consider eating fish two or three times a week. Fish...

Son recalls rescue from sinking plane in Pacific

A single-engine amphibious plane that lost power off California's central coast plunged into the ocean so hard, its doors broke off the hinges, one of the two men onboard said Monday. The 77-year-old pilot and his adult son then sat in the aircraft in seas swelling with...

More public interest, science and less politics needed at FDA

The FDA has its share of visible trouble as its actions are too political, not science and public service driven. Evidence the story that the FDA does not automatically want to label genetically altered salmon...

Salmon spawning in the US Northwest - a weakened phenomenon.

Salmon spawning in the US Northwest - a weakened phenomenon in the Sacramento River these days due to a recent stocks collapse there."It's a credit to the Central Coast fishing industry that it voluntarily...

G20 leaders get a 'Best of British' dinner at 10 Downing Street

Jamie Oliver cooked up a 'Best of British' feast for the G20 leaders tonight in Downing Street, ahead of the Summit meeting tomorrow morning. Oliver, along with young chefs from his 'Fifteen' restaurant, used produce from all over the country, and started with organic salmon...

PETA wants to rename fish "sea kittens"

Animal advocates PETA want to rename all fish 'sea kittens' as they say doing this will make people want to eat and kill them less, so they have launched a new campaign. "People don't seem to like fish. They're...

Deadly salmon infection detected

Salmon is now one of the cheaper fish to buy in our supermarkets and this is wholy due to the farming of salmon. Farming fish whilst protecting wild stocks also brings with it problems of infection and ill health...

Salmon, The Fish That Keeps On Giving

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, CanadaVancouver Island is blessed with clean rivers, big trees and abundant wildlife.  Nanaimo River is one of those beautiful rivers.  It might not seems like it to the casual...

Sea Lice: Farmed and Dangerous

" The Science on Sea Lice is ClearCutting edge research published in the prestigious journal Science in December, 2007 was the first study (link to abstract) to calculate the impact individual wild salmon...

West coast farmers face new pesticide restrictions

Farmers along the western coast of the US face new pesticide restrictions.   The new restrictions have been implemented to protect salmon.  The three pesticides, chlorpyrifos, diazinon and...

No driveway car "wash" in Washington State

Better get ready to buy a new Atlas, as the Pacific Northwest renames one of it's own "Ington State". It's a darn good thing I like keeping my truck in a tip top redneck "dirty" state.... otherwise I would be...

How Should Journalists Cover Basic Medical Research?

A quick article from Wired about medical journalism, discussing how to report research advancements when readers' attention and time are limited, and the chances of the reported-upon drug's success are...

Wolves prefer fishing to hunting

For wolves in Canada it is eaiser to catch salmon than track deer so why not prefer to fish rather than hunt?   " Wolves in western Canada prefer to fish for salmon when it is in season rather than hunt...

Cattle shown to align north-south

"Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way? Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by...

Man got 9-foot tapeworm from restaurant

Considering they can get 50' long, and it was a free bonus, I don't know what he was complaining about !" CHICAGO (AP) — A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a...

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