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UF/IFAS’s Pet Fish Breeding Research Is Saving Reefs, Creating Florida jobs

Florida’s multi-million-dollar pet fish trade is skyrocketing. But in the Sunshine State, only 10% of that industry breeds salt-water fish. And yet, demand for real-life, ocean-dwelling Dorys and ...
New York Post

Mysterious breeding habits of aquarium fish vex experts

PENYABANGAN, Indonesia — It took a broken air conditioner for Tom Bowling to figure out — after nearly eight months of failure — how to breed the coveted pink-yellow tropical fish known as blotched ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Hundreds of fish from New England Aquarium sent to NY as part of groundbreaking breeding program

BRIANNA. WHAT ARE THEY UP TO THERE? WELL, THE FISH ARE REALLY CHILLING DOWN HERE. NOTHING FISHY ABOUT THIS, ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN VERY TIGHT QUARTERS HERE. BEHIND ME IS A TANK OF 700 ...
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Scientists study breeding of pet fish to help protect reefs and fuel Florida’s economy

Florida’s pet fish industry is booming, but many saltwater species in home aquariums are still taken from the wild. Researchers at UF/IFAS want to change that by helping fish farmers breed popular ...
WRAL

An icefish colony discovered in Antarctica is world's largest fish breeding ground

A breeding colony of 60 million fish has been discovered in Antarctica's ice-covered Weddell Sea -- a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers an area the size of Malta. A breeding colony ...