Sentences with phrase «studies about fish»

Unfortunately, there are many conflicting studies about fish oil benefits, and not all studies have even shown that they have any benefit at all.

Not exact matches

«I read a study about bison having less fat than fish and about half the calories of beef,» he explains.

This raises serious questions about the benefit of delaying the introduction of solid foods that are thought to be highly allergic (cow milk, fish, eggs, and peanut - containing foods) beyond 4 to 6 months of age; additional studies are needed.»

«About 85 per cent of the world's chalk streams are in the UK, and the fish we studied are in an area of southern Britain that's under massive pressure from human activity.

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

The researchers plan further studies to learn more about how these fish are ingesting and spreading microplastics.

Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University asked nearly 700 recreational fishers at boat ramps in Townsville about their perceptions of poaching (i.e. fishing in no - take zones).

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the pesticide DDT and other banned compounds dropped about 50 percent in fish in Lakes Michigan, Ontario and Huron from 1999 through 2009, although there were no significant changes in Lakes Superior and Erie fish, according to the study to be published this month in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

The reserves make up just 28 per cent of the area studied, but the team calculated that about half of all juvenile fish were spawned in them.

In particular, the study found that about a quarter of the fishers in the region use destructive fishing methods including explosives and poison, which were both outlawed by the Philippine government in 1932.

(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.

Verdant has spent about $ 9 million thus far on its East River project; one third of the funds were spent on studies to gauge the potential impact of the turbines on vessel navigation, aquatic life and fish migration.

In different versions of the case studies, Fish changed certain factors about the student: his race and ethnicity, whether he was an English learner, and factors that might suggest he was exceptional.

«Our study shows how application of interdisciplinary statistical approaches, coupled with informed models of collective motion can help extract useful biological information about social interactions in schools of fish.

«When we talk about fisheries» catch, we're talking about what fishers are aiming to catch,» explained Rebecca Lewison, an ecology professor at San Diego State University's Coastal Marine Institute Laboratory, who led the study with biology professor Larry Crowder of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and Center for Ocean Solutions.

Their main objective was to see how translocating fishers — in this case moving them from the study area to reintroduce them to the northern Sierra Nevada mountains — influenced their numbers; researchers also wanted to learn about the effects fishers and other predators of similar size have on each other.

The nine animals removed for reintroduction represented about 20 percent of the study area's fisher population.

Given the young age of this study group, Liu and colleagues chose not to analyze the details participants reported about the types of fish consumed, though they plan to do so for work on an older cohort in the future.

We have known about this human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times, and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

The beaked whales in the study made their deep dives about seven times a day, foraging for squid and fish; they spent more time at the surface at night.

The team named the new species in honor of a deceased colleague, John E. Olney, who studied and taught courses about marine fish larvae.

The reefs studied are about 300 kilometres off the coast of northwest Australia where Indonesian fishers target sharks — a practice stretching back several centuries and which continues under an Australian - Indonesian memorandum of understanding.

A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.

Anna Chalfoun, a University of Wyoming associate professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, and assistant unit leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, and her graduate students have been studying and collecting data about three species — the Brewer's sparrow, sagebrush sparrow and sage thrasher — in Wyoming for seven years.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

In a paper in the latest edition of the journal Science, Dr Jodie Rummer of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and colleagues from the University of British Columbia report a groundbreaking discovery about how fish manage to survive in hostile water conditions.

Bill has conducted a number of «plankton to predator» studies in the California Current large marine ecosystem, and has written about climate effects on seabirds, marine mammals and fish.

A new study looked at haddock and cod, two commercially important fish species, to find out more about how fish are managing in an increasingly noisy ocean.

It'll be tough for us not to continue down this road, in spite of some serious ethical questions, when most of what we know about human embryonic development comes from studying frogs, fish, chickens and mice.

«In the study, investigators randomized 40 newly diagnose NSCLC patients to receive either fish oil (EPA 2.2 g / day) or standard care (no intervention; n = 24) while undergoing first - line chemotherapy for 10 weeks.The investigator found that about 69 % of the patients who took fish oil gained or maintained muscle mass.

The study — by far the largest of its kind to date — should help settle long - standing uncertainty about whether mercury from fish, which in high doses is believed to cause developmental delays in fetuses and infants, might also impact the heart health of adults.

«For the average consumer who's worried about mercury in fish, our study suggests that cardiovascular toxicity should not be a concern.»

Much later, in college, a friend ordered fish tacos at the small restaurant where we studied and absolutely raved about them.

In fact, one study found that for patients about to undergo dental surgery, gazing at a fish tank for 20 minutes was as effective at lowering stress levels as being hypnotized.

Against all this concern about methionine are the many randomized trials and epidemiological studies that have shown that high intakes of chicken, cheese and fish are associated with long life.

The largest study in history of those eating plant - based diets recently compared the nutrient profiles of about 30,000 non-vegetarians to 20,000 vegetarians, and about 5,000 vegans, flexitarians, and no meat except fish - eaters, allowing us to finally put to rest the perennial question, «Do vegetarians get enough protein?»

According to various independent studies on the product, it has been found that fish oil contains about 30 % EPA and DHA, leading to a high level of bioavailability of the product.

I started this habit after reading about a study in the Amazon among women who regularly consumed fish.

The other study talks about relationship of cancer and cured / preserved foods like meat and smoked fish.

While I haven't found any studies of thyroid antibodies in bears, thyroid hormone activity has been measured to be significantly lower in bears when they hibernate compared to when they are out and about catching fish and doing other bear things that bears do during warm months.

The study pooled information from about 81,000 singles between the ages of 25 - 35 on the dating website Plenty of Fish, along with about 1.8 million messages to see what traits were the most desirable in both men and women who are online dating.

There is no agreement as to which dating sites and apps are the top ones, but some of the more popular ones included in this study are: (1) Match.com; (2) Our Time; (3) Hinge; (4) Hitch; (5) How About We; (6) OKCupid; (7) Grindr; (8) Down Dating; (9) Bumble; (10) Score; (11) At First Sight; (12) Plenty of Fish; (13) Eharmony; (14) Zoosk; (15) Tinder; (16) Adult friend finder; (17) Ashley Madison; (18) Instagram; and (19) Facebook.

Of course, much of what I was studying was my own life, the life of my city as I'd known it, the culture which surrounded me like an ocean surrounds a fish and about which I felt so much already, even if I understood very little.

Since 1988, APPA has been collecting and publishing the pet industry's most comprehensive consumer research study about pet ownership, pet care practices, and pet product purchasing of owners of dogs, cats, fish, birds, small animals, reptiles and horses.

Robinsons responds to questions about the controversy that sometimes swirls around TNR and how best to treat feral and homeless cats — including from the perspective of wildlife advocates, factions of veterinarians and others who oppose TNR — the study by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service, and more.

As I've written in a brief piece for Thursday's paper, relatively plankton - free (and thus fish - free) stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans around the tropics that typically cover about 20 percent of the global ocean surface have expanded about 15 percent since 1998, according to the new study.

Just pop around the site today and you'll see Amelia Urry's interesting piece explaining why a study finding vastly more fish in a deep ocean layer than previous estimates doesn't mean worries about overfishing are overblown.

Unlike questions about the aesthetics of the plant or its engineering, the fish issue required multi-year studies in the field.

«What is important about this study is that while yes, whales eat fish (including baleen whales), whales enhance the production of fish by providing through excretion the nutrients essential for phytoplankton growth at the base of the food web,» said Jim Ruzicka from the Hatfield Marine Science Center at the University of Oregon.

In this case, the bird study comes from the Fish and Wildlife Service of the federal government who must issue take permits for wind farms after two years of specific bird census data at the specific site and the National Academy of Sciences report in 2006 or so about obstacles to increased wind energy.