Ocean anomaly triggers record fish kill

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Hundreds of millions of pilchards, small food fish, have washed onto Australia's southern shore, marking the country's largest ever fish kill. It has baffled marine biologists, since it spread against as well as with the currents and no algal bloom or ocean temperature change was evident.

Australia, Causes of, Environmental aspects, Sardines, Fish kills

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Ocean scientists find life, warmth in the seas

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The 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting included presentations on the state of the world's oceans and the life forms contained there. Reports on whale bone habitats and Pacific warming were presented. Also included was a discussion of the likelihood that RNA was the first genetic material.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, American Geophysical Union, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

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Balancing fish consumption benefits with mercury exposure

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Methylated mercury present in the tissues of fresh and marine water mammals can cause developmental disorders in humans. In 1996, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a new reference dose for methylmercury which puts considerable restrictions on fish consumption.

Health aspects, Seafood, Methylmercury, Methylmercury compounds

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