Pollution that killed 100,000 fish still a mystery
Fish were found washed up on the riverbank near Peterborough and at Ferry Meadows park in December.
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Fish were found washed up on the riverbank near Peterborough and at Ferry Meadows park in December.
The first year of RightFish is now over. During 2023 the project’s PhD student has started his work at DTU Aqua in Hirtshals, and the initial literature reviews have been done on the fuel consumption and bottom contact of existing fishing gear.
The new study shows that a relaxed fish can detect fear in other fish, and then become afraid itself — and that this ability is regulated by oxytocin, the same brain chemical that underlies the capacity for empathy in humans
The study is being considered important as it suggest that empathy may have a longer evolutionary history than previously thought.
India is working on maximising the net revenue from fisheries through value conservation, value capture and value creation, said secretary to the Department o