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Caleb Jasper

A Surprise find: Soybean waste can be fish feed - 0 views

  • fish feed. The wastewater from soybean
  • processing can be converted into a nourishing, protein-rich food for farmed Asian sea bass, a team of scientists has discovered.
  • They worked with a local food processing company to rescue hundreds of liters of soybean wastewater, which they discovered was rich in two types of protein-accumulating microbes in particular, known as Acidipropionibacterium and Propioniciclava.
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  • The sea bass that were fed the alternative microbe protein diet did have significantly lower weight to begin with, but that evened out as they grew. And, notably, the group that received the traditional feed diet had greater variability in their weight gain as they grew—whereas those fed the alternative microbe protein diet showed a more even accumulation of weight over the experiment’s course.
  • Meanwhile, the wastewater from other soybean uses goes unused—but according to the recent results, could feasibly tackle both of these sustainability challenges at once. Furthermore it’s not just soybean waste water, the researchers say: several agricultural processes create wastewater side streams that are rich in the combination of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus that’s needed to sustain a growing population of hungry, protein-accumulating bacteria.
  • Microbial community‐based protein from soybean‐processing wastewater as a sustainable alternative fish feed ingredient.
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    Possible more efficient fish feed to reduce waste and benefit the environment as well as the economy.
Kylie John

Dams trigger exponential population declines of migratory fish | Science Advances - 0 views

  • When the GD, the first dam across the mainstream of the Yangtze River, was built in the 1970s, the Chinese government explicitly demanded that the dam consider the conservation of fish.
  • Dams can harm migratory fish by disrupting their life cycles and then causing population extinctions.
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      Is it possible to give the fish a different area to migrate to and from?
  • We divide the species population into spawning stock (spawners), which are sexually mature adults participating in the current year’s breeding, and recruitment stock, which includes larvae, juveniles, and subadults that have not reached the reproductive age and sexually immature adults/post-spawners that do not participate in the current year’s breeding.
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  • The sixth misjudgment concerns the assertion that fishways are unnecessary in dams. The 1982 GD-FRP suggested that fishways were not needed for the Chinese sturgeon (14). The TGD, built in 1993, followed this idea and did not include fishways.
  • This study has certain limitations, such as the need for larger sample sizes of fish to improve the accuracy of the precision of fish life cycle models.
Kylie John

Artificial light is a deadly siren song for y | EurekAlert! - 0 views

  • News Release 3-Jul-2024 Artificial light is a deadly siren song for young fish Reports and Proceedings Society for Experimental Biology image: Light pollution at night over aquatic habitats in French Polynesia. view more  Credit: Jules Schligler New research finds that artificial light at night (ALAN) attracts larval fish away from naturally lit habitats, while dramatically lowering their chances of survival in an “ecological trap”, with serious consequences for fish conservation and fishing stock management.
nataliegomes

Potential Pain in Fish and Decapods: Similar Experimental Approaches and Similar Result... - 1 views

  • how they provided guidance on general methods that could be applied to other animals such as decapod crustaceans.
  • indicate that responses of both go beyond those expected of mere nociceptive reflex.
    • nataliegomes
       
      Where is the limit between a reflex and a cognitive response?
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    I really like this topic, and it is one that is getting some current attention. so, we obviously cannot discern cellular-level factors with the nervous system of animals (and obviously- especially when dealing with pain response, we would have to work exclusively with invertebrates and the experimental design would have to be very well thought out. That said, behavioral studies where you have a really tight experimental design set up.... and you're recording behavioral changes... is likely feasible. If this is interesting, keep digging into pain vs. reflex studies, and also begin to look at invertebrate models that we can both successfully raise... and that have interesting behavioral responses we can readily discern in the lab.
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