Green Options » hatcheries http://greenoptions.com/tag/hatcheries Posts tagged 'hatcheries' Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:26:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Pesticides Cause Thousands of Fish to be Born With Two Heads http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/14/pesticides-cause-thousands-of-fish-to-be-born-with-two-heads/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/14/pesticides-cause-thousands-of-fish-to-be-born-with-two-heads/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:26:53 +0000 Michael A. Weber http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/01/14/pesticides-cause-thousands-of-fish-to-be-born-with-two-heads/

Water contamination by toxic chemicals appears to be the cause of a mutation which resulted in the deaths of thousands of bass larvae in Australia. The two headed fish survived a mere 48 hours before dying off en masse.

Dr. Matt Landos of the Australian College of Veterinarian Sciences specializes in aquatic animals, and says that this is the first time he has ever seen anything like this. He sees no natural explanation for the deaths and is pinning the likely cause on the chemicals being used by a local macadamia nut plantation.

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