Sentences with phrase «of dogfish»

Roussette, a type of dogfish, is packed in ice for sale at Boulogne, in the northern Calais region.

A final factor worth considering in the proposed federal purchase of dogfish is labeling.

His data, which will appear in a forthcoming article in Marine Environmental Research, suggest that species of dogfish, as well as age and size, can have a significant effect on mercury concentrations.

New England now finds itself with a glut of dogfish and few willing buyers, and at the same time, catch limits on other species are being drastically tightened.

Back at Portland Public Schools, the kitchen's local fish vendor recently sent a sample of dogfish fillets to the school.

Not exact matches

Search beneath the waves of Nantucket Sound for fascinating marine life including dogfish sharks, black sea bass, scup, spider crabs, squid, calico crabs, pipefish, and glowing comb jellyfish.

The FDA Monitoring Program data set, which includes only 19 spiny dogfish specimens, puts the average mercury concentration in dogfish over 0.5 parts per million — high enough to result in an advisory for women of reproductive age and children in many states.

That's because the dogfish, a type of shark, sits high in the ocean food chain and therefore accumulates mercury from the smaller fish it eats.

Although there is no «safe» threshold for mercury in seafood, looking at the relative concentrations of mercury puts the risks associated with dogfish into perspective.

In the Atlantic spiny dogfish he tested, Taylor says he found mercury levels «exceeding the EPA action level for mercury in seafood» (0.30 ppm) in more than 50 percent of market - size samples.

Women of childbearing age and children would be advised to forgo dogfish altogether.

The rest of the population should eat no more than two dogfish meals per month, the advice says.

At least one study found spiny dogfish had a mean mercury concentration twice that of canned albacore tuna.

In the past year, some politicians have begun looking to federal food programs as customers for one of the most abundant and despised species: the Atlantic spiny dogfish.

In addition to encountering over 50 percent of all the other tagged sand tiger sharks on the East Coast, the sand tigers came in contact with Atlantic sturgeons, white sharks, sand bar and spiny dogfish sharks, and even southern species like the lemon shark and bull shark.

A synthesized steroid mirroring one naturally made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein implicated in some neurodegenerative diseases.

A naturally occurring steroid made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein in animal studies, reports an international team of researchers.

Researchers found the dogfish sharks were not attracted to the smell of squid at carbon dioxide levels that the ocean is expected to reach by 2100.

WASHINGTON (January 16, 2017)-- A synthesized steroid mirroring one naturally made by the dogfish shark prevents the buildup of a lethal protein implicated in some neurodegenerative diseases, reports an international research team studying an animal model of Parkinson's disease.

He discovered it in dogfish sharks in 1993 and synthesized it in 1995 in a process that does not involve use of any natural shark tissue.

She discovered the shark problem while studying the odor - tracking behavior of 24 smooth dogfish.

This water smelled strongly of squid, something smooth dogfish love to eat.

Her recent publications include works on birds exposed to oil spills, research on sharks and spiny dogfish, and accumulation of rodenticides in red - tailed hawks.

One of our favorite encounters so far this month has been observing a juvenile elephant seal returning from the depths of the Monterey Bay with a tasty small shark called a spiny dogfish.

We also used to see vast schools of spiny dogfish sharks in the San Juan Islands.

Scientists placed dogfish sharks into water treated with levels of carbon that are expected by mid century and by 2100.

Under the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals the hunting, fishing, or deliberate killing of the great white, basking, whale, porbeagle, shortfin and longfin mako sharks, and the spiny dogfish is prohibited.

Without its ability to detect the odors of prey, the smooth dogfish could be left high and dry.