High-energy wavelengths in the ultraviolet-B (UVB, 280-315 nm) and the UVA (315-400-nm) portion of the spectrum are harmful to terrestrial and aquatic organisms. Interestingly, UVA is also involved in the repair of UV induced damage. Organisms living in shallow coral reef environments possess UV absorbing compounds, such as mycosporine-like amino acids, to protect them from UV radiation. While ...

This shark has been listed among Chilean species based on Randall and Cea-Egaña (1984), who gave a listing of vernacular names for the fishes of Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Grove and Lavenberg (1997) record having photographed Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller 1905) at Salas y Gomez Is. There are no data to our knowledge of anyone examining specimens captured at either Easter Is...

Metazoan parasites of the minor stardrum, Stellifer minor (Tschudi) (Osteichthyes, Sciaenidae), caught by artisanal fishery on Chorrillos, Lima, Peru. A research on some community components of parasitefauna of 105 specimens of Stellifer minor (Tschudi, 1844) collected from Chorrillos Fishmarket, Lima, Peru, between May and October 1998 and necropsied to study parasite communities was conducted...

Since the demonstration, in 1998, of the phenomenon now widely known as 'fishing down marine food webs', and the publication of a critical rejoinder by Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) staff, a number of studies have been conducted in different parts of the world, based on more detailed data than the global FAO fisheries statistics originally used, which established the validity and ubi...

Abstract Greater Prespa Lake, located on the Balkan Peninsula, is an ancient freshwater lake inhabited by numerous endemic and endangered species represents important part of Europe’s natural heritage. Between 2013 2015, standardized gillnet fishing was conducted for first time ever with aim obtaining large-scale information status fish community in terms relative abundance, biomass, spatial di...

1. The rate of oxygen consumption was determined in an Antarctic hemoglobin-free fish, Pagetopsis macropterus, and in three species of Notothenia, all of which have hemoglobin. In P. macropterus, the consumption at 0C ranged from 0.012 to 0.022 ml O2/g per hr, one-half to one-quarter of that in other fishes. In all cases, the rate was little affected by the oxygen tension in the water when it w...

CO2-induced aquatic acidification is predicted to affect fish neuronal GABAA receptors leading widespread behavioural alterations. However, the large variability in magnitude and direction of responses suggests substantial species-specific CO2 threshold differences, life history parental acclimation effects, experimental artifacts, or a combination these factors. As an established model organis...