Sentences with phrase «with dogfish»
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.
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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.
Several studies have found individual dogfish specimens with mercury concentrations exceeding the FDA action level for mercury in seafood — the level at which the FDA would consider removing the product from the market.
There's little data on mercury levels in dogfish specifically, but the data that does exist seems to indicate that officials need to proceed with caution.
To make matters worse, dogfish both compete with cod for food and directly prey on cod.
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.
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.
Scientists placed dogfish sharks into water treated with levels of carbon that are expected by mid century and by 2100.