Study: Sea lice killing off wild salmon
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Researchers have new evidence that as the density of salmon farms increases, they can drive nearby wild salmon runs to extinction. The problem is sea lice, a natural parasite that normally attaches to adult salmon with little ill effect and has little contact with vulnerable juvenile salmon. All that changes, however, when fish farms move in.
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Baldness is not a medical treatment, at least not since shaving the head for lice was stopped. In one patient, however, shaving the head was life saving.
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NEW YORK  - Despite warnings, a  considerable number of young Michigan children catch Salmonella  from pet reptiles, a new study shows.
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Experts think they've solved the mystery of what has been killing sea turtles in the Indian Ocean at the peak of their nesting season.
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Aluminum could be an unusual savior for Atlantic salmon in prized Scandinavian and Russian fishing rivers because it kills a voracious parasite, researchers said on Friday.
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By Steve Connor  Marine biologists have called on the fishing nations of the world to end government subsidies of fishing fleets that are plundering the deep seas and permanently stripping the ocean floor of its unique lifeforms.
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A new method of killing head lice by  suffocating them with a lotion that dries on the scalp like  shrink-wrap appears to work as well as many conventional  medicines, its U.S. inventor said on Tuesday.
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Farmed salmon have been found to accumulate much higher levels of chemical flame retardants than their wild counterparts, raising alarm that they might pose an increased cancer risk.
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Marine researchers are hoping to prevent tides of destructive algae from killing fish and fouling beaches through early detection of the microscopic organisms.
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CHEMICALS in a Victorian seaweed could shut down bacteria that cause golden staph and cholera. The chemicals in seaweed Delisea pulchra, known as furanones, do not kill the bacteria but shut off the ability for the bacteria to send signals to each other.
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The tides of Atlantic salmon that flooded many European and North American rivers last year may signal efforts to restore the fish are working, activists say.
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By Art Lander Jr., The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 14--Kentucky wildlife officials are worried that the warming waters in parts of the Cumberland River will trigger a major fish kill in one of the finest trout-fishing areas in the eastern United States.
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Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years.
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Parasites that breed in fish farms kill so many passing juvenile wild salmon that they threaten the survival of fish populations in some rivers and streams, Canadian researchers say.
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By ERIK ROBINSON  A flame retardant intended to save people is probably harming salmon in the Columbia River, according to new research released Monday in Vancouver.
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Our crushing appetite for carnivorous fish like salmon and tuna depletes the oceans of smaller, feeder fish, and endangers the planet's marine ecology
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PORTLAND, Maine - Scientists are studying endangered right whales this summer to learn more about their behavior and assess the risks posed by lobster gear.