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How To Properly Throw Trout From An Aeroplane

At the end of World War II, a collection of US military airplanes and pilots changed the way California’s remote mountain lakes were stocked with fish. It had always been a massive ground operation, but this is a story about ingenuity, and achieving results from the air.

July 19, 2011
Science

Fish Are Unexpectedly Helping To Make Wind Farms More Powerful

Wind turbines are big on power and marvels to look at. They’re also rather inefficient. So some scientists thought about it, talked, and figured out a way to increase their power output tenfold. All by staring at fish!

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Watching Fish Eating At 1000fps Makes Me Hungry

I just want to eat sushi at the same speed as these fish other smaller fish. Which, mind you, it’s not far from my usual speed. Nom nom.

April 19, 2011
Cameras

10 Marvels Of Underwater Photography By National Geographic

What was the first colour underwater photo, and how was it taken? What exactly was Jacques Cousteau’s influence on the underwater photography field? How were photos taken of the Titanic, 12500 feet below the surface? National Geographic has a fascinating little slideshow of the history of underwater photography, though one question it failed to answer for me is exactly what the photographers say to the fish to get them to smile for the camera. Krill? [National Geographic]

April 6, 2011
News

Japanese Fish Dangerously Contaminated By Fukushima

With measurements of iodine 131 and the much worse cesium 134 isotopes detected at 7.5 and two million times past their “regulated levels” and contaminated water pouring into the Pacific Ocean, this was inevitable: the fish are contaminated too.

March 22, 2011
News

Radiation In Fukushima Seawater Could Affect Fishing Industry

Like the radiation discovered in spinach and milk, the contaminated water around Fukushima Prefecture has been deemed safe, despite them being above “normal” levels.

March 17, 2011
Science

This Gigantic Flying Jellyfish Isn’t Nearly As Scary As It Sounds

The AirJelly, a massive floating jellyfish created by the German automation masters at FESTO, should be terrifying, but it’s not. In fact, it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen take flight.

March 7, 2011
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Hello? Hello?! Sorry, There’s A Fish Bone In My Phone

Boy, you’d really flounder about in the aquarium phone booth, wouldn’t you? It was installed by two artists for the French Lyon Light Festival, to make a statement about the phone booths that litter our streets, laying dormant save for sex phone-line leaflet hander-outers.

February 25, 2011
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California Bureaucrats Are Throwing A Bubble Rave For At-Risk Salmon

In California, some impressionable, young Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento river are heading down the wrong path. A path leading towards death and destruction. A path otherwise known as the San Francisco Bay. To get these disenfranchised fish on the right track, the Department of Water Resources are installing an underwater “bubble barrier,” complete with loud acoustic noises and a strobe lights. That shit sounds like a rave to me.

January 26, 2011
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There’s An Aquarium On This Man’s Head

Last weekend, at the Edwardian Ball in San Francisco, some brilliant or deranged or brilliantly deranged man showed up wearing an honest to goodness fishbowl helmet. A helmet, on his head, with real, live goldfish inside of it.

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