Zinc important for developing salmon

The results of a research project carried out by Nofima Marin in Norway, showed that low levels of zinc found in juvenile farmed salmon was the cause of spine malformations. This showed that there was a need to better control the levels of zinc in the diet of the farmed salmon, the effects of low levels of zinc showed compressed vertebrae in some fish. Also phosphorous deficiency was more severe in the salmon when zinc levels were insufficient. Read more...

Estimated 6,000 new marine species discovered

10 years, 80 countries and some 9,000 days at sea, an international survey of life in the oceans and how they are connected, shows that the oceans were richer than first thought. During the project, 30 million individual organisms was observed and an estimated 6,000 previously unknown species were recorded. Professor Paul Holm indicated that there is still 20 percent of the oceans volume to be explored. Read more...