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• Is ugly fish worthy of protection?
... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to list the Atlantic wolffish — a species with large protruding teeth and a face that's downright ugly — as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The fish, also called an ocean catfish, is ...
• Study: More freshwater fish in peril
So are snail bullhead, flat bullhead and spotted bullhead catfish. Sockeye, Chinook, coho, chum and Atlantic salmon populations are also called threatened or endangered in the study. More than two dozen trout populations are considered in trouble. ...
• Fish flies out of lake, breaks teen's jaw
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the ...
• Fish whopper: 646 pounds a record - Environment- msnbc.com
Thai fishermen netted a catfish as big as a grizzly bear, setting a world record for freshwater fish, according to researchers who studied the 646-pound Mekong giant catfish for a ...
• Catfish chokes on soccer ball - Animal weirdness- msnbc.com
A catfish has apparently choked to death after trying to chow down on a soccer ball in the locks of a Bavarian canal.