Pet Fish Cichlid

Sustainable Seafood ... Nonprofit groups addressing seafood sustainability include the Marine Stewardship Council, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Oceana, John G. Shedd Aquarium and Greenpeace...

World Fish Production ... The number of individual fish caught in the wild has been estimated at 0.97-2.7 trillion per year (not counting fish farms or marine invertebrates)... Marine and inland fisheries World capture production 2007 in thousands of tonnes Inland fisheries Marine fisheries Totals Freshwater fish 8,695 23 8,718 Diadromous fish 341 1,444 1,785 Marine fishes 82 65,627 65,709 Crustaceans 474 5,367 5,840 Molluscs 383 7,182 7,564 Other 61 388 449 Totals 10,035 80,029 90,064 Capture production by species The following table shows the capture production by groups of species (fish, crustaceans, molluscs, etc) in tonnes... Capture production by groups of species in tonnes Type Group 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 freshwater fish Carps, barbels and other cyprinids 616 828 574 405 569 934 616 985 624 333 594 392 648 160 freshwater fish Tilapias and other cichlids 636 758 680 004...

Fish Farming ... There is an increasing demand for fish and fish protein, which has resulted in widespread overfishing in wild fisheries... However, farming carnivorous fish, such as salmon, does not always reduce pressure on wild fisheries, since carnivorous farmed fish are usually fed fishmeal and fish oil extracted from wild forage fish... The global returns for fish farming recorded by the FAO in 2008 totalled 33.8 million tonnes worth about $US 60 billion...

Fish ... Commercial and subsistence fishers hunt fish in wild fisheries (see fishing) or farm them in ponds or in cages in the ocean (see aquaculture)... Fish have had a role in culture through the ages, serving as deities, religious symbols, and as the subjects of art, books and movies...

Fisheye Lens ... The term fisheye was coined in 1906 by American physicist and inventor Robert W. Wood based on how a fish would see an ultra-wide hemispherical view from beneath the water...

Live Fish Trade ... The live food fish trade is a global system that links fishing communities with markets, primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China... Consumer demand Within the live food trade there are certain types of fish demanded more often by consumers, particularly smaller and medium-sized fish... According to the book While Stocks Last: The Live Reef Food Fish Trade consumer demand has caused the fish captured on coral reefs to be the most valued fish in the trade...

Cultural Depictions Of Cats ... Black cats are generally held to be unlucky in the United States and Europe, and to portend good luck in the United Kingdom. In the latter country, a black cat entering a house or ship is a good omen, and a sailor's wife should have a black cat for her husband's safety on the sea...

Bird Vision ... Birds, unlike us but like fish, amphibians and reptiles, have four types of colour receptors in the eye. These give birds the ability to perceive not only the visible range but also the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, and other adaptations allow for the detection of polarised light or magnetic fields...

Fish Anatomy ... The caudal peduncle is the narrow part of the fish's body to which the caudal or tail fin is attached. The hypural joint is the joint between the caudal fin and the last of the vertebrae...

Cat ... Cats are similar in anatomy to the other felids, with strong, flexible bodies, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted to killing small prey. As crepuscular predators, cats use their acute hearing and ability to see in near darkness to locate prey...

Angling ... In many parts of the world, size limits apply to certain species, meaning fish below and/or above a certain size must, by law, be released... Among the many species of salt water fish that are caught for sport are swordfish, marlin, tuna, salmon and halibut... In Europe a large number of anglers fish for species such as carp, pike, tench, rudd, roach, European perch and barbel (especially in stillwaters)...

Animal Navigation ... William Tinsley Keeton (1933-1980) studied homing pigeons, showing that they were able to navigate using the earth's magnetic field, the sun, as well as both olfactory and visual cues. Donald Griffin (1915-2003) studied echolocation in bats, demonstrating that it was possible and that bats used this mechanism to detect and track prey, and to "see" and thus navigate through the world around them...

Fishing Bait ... Studies show that natural baits like croaker and shrimp are more recognized by the fish and are more readily accepted... Artificial baits See also: Fishing lures and Artificial fly Many people prefer to fish solely with lures, which are artificial baits designed to entice fish to strike... Natural baits See also: Bait fish The natural bait angler, with few exceptions, will use a common prey species of the fish as an attractant...

Overfishing ... In these locations, overfishing has not only proved disastrous to fish stocks but also to the fishing communities relying on the harvest... The United Kingdom has created elements within this plan to attempt to restore this fishery, but the expanding global human population and the expanding demand for fish has reached a point where demand for food threatens the stability of these fisheries, if not the species' survival... Deep sea fish grow slowly because of limited food, have slow metabolisms, low reproductive rates, and many don't reach breeding maturity for 30 to 40 years...

Diversity Of Fish ... Unlike groupings such as birds or mammals, fish are not a single clade but a paraphyletic collection of taxa, including jawless, cartilaginous and skeletal types... Lampreys attached to a lake trout Mouth of a sea lamprey Pacific hagfish resting on bottom at 280 m Stir-fried hagfish, from Korean cuisine Cartilaginous fish Cartilaginous fish have a cartilaginous skeleton... Because cartilaginous fish do not have bone marrow, the spleen and special tissue around the gonads produces red blood cells...

Fishkeeping ... In the tropics, tropical fish can be kept in garden ponds, but in the temperate zone species such as goldfish, koi, and orfe work better... Marine aquaria can be exceedingly beautiful, due to the attractive colors and shapes of the corals and the coral reef fish they host... Temperate zone marine fish are not as commonly kept in home aquaria, primarily because they do not thrive at room temperature...

Recreational Fishing ... Other devices, commonly referred to as terminal tackle, are also used to affect or complement the presentation of the bait to the targeted fish...

Mercury In Fish ... The presence of mercury in fish can be a health issue, particularly for women who are or may become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children... This results in the bioaccumulation of mercury, in a buildup in the adipose tissue of successive trophic levels: zooplankton, small nekton, larger fish etc... Anything which eats these fish within the food chain also consumes the higher level of mercury the fish have accumulated...

Fish Marketing ... It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both...

Fish (food) ... The modern English word for fish comes from the Old English fisc (plural: fiscas) which was pronounced as it is today... There are issues with fish contaminated with heavy metals such as mercury and lead, or by toxic chemicals such as those containing chlorine or bromine, dioxins or PCBs... Mercury Fish products have been shown to contain varying amounts of heavy metals, particularly mercury and fat-soluble pollutants from water pollution...