Rising land prices is putting a strain on China’s aquaculture sector. In some of the key southern provinces, rent for aquaculture land has shot up 80 to100 percent.
Fish farmers in Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang told that acquiring land for ponds is becoming increasingly difficult due to competition from industry and real estate.
Shrimp and Tilapia farmers complain that rents have risen from CNY 300
(USD $49) to CNY 900 per mu (15 mu = 1 hectare) to (USD$146).
Researchers from Australia have discovered muscle tissues in the remains of placoderms, a prehistoric armour-plated fish. They were “stunned” to find they included
abdominal muscles, previously thought to have originated in land
animals.
Kate Trinajstic, lead author of a paper published in the journal Science,
said the discovery was rewriting ideas about early evolution. “These
animals had much more complex musculature than modern fish.”
An angler has caught a giant catfish after a two-hour battle during which he was dragged neck-deep into a lake.
Daniel Sibley of Blaby, Leicestershire, landed the 108lb
4oz "beast" while angling for carp.
The fish, caught at Bluebell Lakes, Northamptonshire, is thought to be one of the heaviest ever landed with a
rod and line in Britain.
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| Coccosteus decipiens, a placoderm from the Devonian of Europe and North America, pencil drawing (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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