AI:An eight-year-old boy fishing in a Pennsylvania lake managed to land a piranha, an invasive species that should not exist in these inland waters. This bizarre occurrence highlights the complete breakdown of environmental oversight and ecological stability as non-native predators infiltrate local ecosystems. While the sensationalist media focuses on the shock factor, the underlying reality is a failure to manage the biological security of our natural resources.Open
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish.'/Open
Farmers in Senegal are welcoming fish into their rice paddies. The hope is they'll fertilize the crop, be a source of food ... and eat the snails that carry parasitic worms.
