...Flathead Catfishing Flathead catfishing is frequently seen in the United States. Why! Because flathead catfish are a native species of the waters there and are popular among the masses as game fish and food. Initially, Flathead catfish dwelled in the Mississippi River and its outlets, but later it found its way to the slow moving waters of the nation. Today, flathead catfish can be found in big rivers, streams, lakes and ponds across the entire United States. Deep waters are their favorite hideouts where they take cover under fallen logs and rocks. Flatheads derive their name from the shape of their heads which is slightly long and flat. They also have flat oval shaped eyes and a bigger lower jaw that sticks out past the upper jaw. Mostly brown and yellow with spots, they come in all sizes. In rivers and lakes forty to fifty pound flatheads are normally found and caught, but there have also been reports of...
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...Marsland Press Journal of American Science 2009:5(3) 31-40 Evaluations of the Effects of Different Dietary Vitamin C levels on the Body Composition, Growth Performance and Feed Utilization Efficiencies in Stinging Catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792) Md. Jobaer Alam 1, Md. Ghulam Mustafa 1, Md. Abdul Khaleque 2. 1 2 Department of Fisheries, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Institute of Food Science and Technology, BCSIR, Dr. Kudrat-E-Khuda road, Dhaka-1205 Abstract: To evaluate the effects of Vitamin C of formulated feed on growth performance, feed utilization efficiency and body composition of shing fish, Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1792) an experiment was conducted for sixty days in nine plastic tanks. During the rearing and feeding trial in the laboratory condition, the change in growth and feed utilization by the shing fish fed on three different Vitamin C level have been assessed by the determination of condition factor (K), survival rate (SR), specific growth rate (SGR%), feed conversion ratio (FCR), feed efficiency and average daily gain (ADG) and protein efficiency ratio (PER). All the water quality parameters specifically- Temperature (0C), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Carbon dioxide (CO2) and pH in the plastic tanks were highly monitored and maintained. The highest FCR was found in the control while the lowest was measured in treatment 2. The values of PER for treatment 2 was higher than control and treatment 1. The condition factor was...
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...Pre-Preparation1. Washing. Wash fish upon arrival from the market. Scales may or may not removed. 2. Splitting. Split fish on the dorsal side starting from the tail to the head by running the edge of the knife along the backbone. 3. Removal of internal organs. Lay fish open like butterfly fillet. Remove gills and internal organs. Wash fish to remove blood and dirt. The black membrane covering the belly cavity may or may not be removed depending upon the consumers choice. Wash fish in running water. 4. Removal of backbone dorsal fin. Remove backbone by laying fish flat on the cutting board with the skin down. Hold the knife in a horizontal/slanting position and cut in with the tip of the blade along the backbone from the head to tail. Trim off the dorsal fin. Deboning It is important to know the exact location of the spines most especially the the intermascular spines. Total number of spines 196-208(don’t be silly. don’t count the spines. I just put it for illustration purposes:-). Place fish in the shallow tray. With the end of the mosquito forceps, start removing the spines. 1. Rib bones. The bones are located in the belly cavity. They are visible and superficially embedded thus easy to pull out. 2. Dorsal intermascular spines. Make a superficial slit from head to tail along the dent of the dorsal muscle. Pull out the embedded intermascular spines one at a time.The spines on the head portion are branched spines while the rest are unbranched...
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...My article: http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2012/09/27/01008-20120927ARTFIG00469-la-voiture-sans-conducteur-de-google-roule-en-californie.php The autonomous car by Google I chose an article on the French newspaper « Le Figaro » published on 27th September 2012. This article talks about a car which includes a new technology create by Google. Google takes an existed car, the Toyota Prius, and installed on the keyboard a computer which allows the car to drive itself without a driver. It is a revolution in the field of new technologies because it is the first car which can drive alone. In September, Google was allowed to use their car in the road in the state of California. And within five years, this car will be on the market and everybody could buy it. I think it is a really really good idea from Google to create this kind of car which is totally autonomous. It is the dream of every driver to have a car which takes away where you want without doing anything. Moreover, these cars can reduce the number of accident because the car slows down itself thanks to the radar on the front and on the roof of the car. Regarding the substitute of this autonomous car, I don’t know what it could be. The reason is simple; this new car created by Google is already a substitute to the automatic car which existed for a long time. So this autonomous car is going to replace it. So right now, I think there is no substitute to this new car but it is the substitute to our...
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...RUSTY CRAYFISH The rusty crayfish or the Orconectes rusticus, is a sea animal found in the United States and Ontario, Canada. It has a rusty reddish brown color with dots on it’s upper shell. It eats small plants and animals found in the sea.This crayfish is particularly small with a length of only 10.2 centimeters. Rusty Crayfish habitat The rusty crayfish (or the orconectes rusticus) can be seen in the Great lakes region , most of the Midwest U.S and Ontario, Canada. . The crayfish mostly populate lakes, ponds, and streams. if the water has logs or other debris to cover it, the crayfish will thrive.They also will reside in still waters or fast streams. Body structure This little crayfish has a distinct colour to it, dark brown...
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...Case Study Assignment: Catfish Creek Canoe Company October 2015 Question 1 – Catfish’s Target Market Profile • Davidson is relying on scooping up “thousands of prospective clients” pulled from the Internet alone • There could be countless potential clients responding to the “Buyers Markets” section of the most popular canoeing magazines • He wants to sell to “professionals with above-average income” but he doesn’t specify which professionals and what constitutes a high income • Davidson is very vague with respect to his target market and assumes he’ll have clients from online and print sources • He did not include an estimate of the size of his market segment • He has not narrowed his target into a segment of potential clients, who, for example, could be: o Males 50 – 75 o Cottagers o Retired o Hobby Fishers o Remote Camp Owners o Gun and Bow Hunters o Living in the Muskokas Question 2 – Adequate Research? • Not only has Davidson underestimated his competition, he has relied on Statistics Canada information almost exclusively • He has also made some awkward assumptions that I think would be fatal: o After his “sticker shock” episode, he assumed he could sell his “handcrafted” canoes at a premium without first understanding whether specific market prospects existed or could be tapped into o He assumed that he could build canoes “relatively easy” since he had completed three in the last ten years and sold for a “marginal profit” o He had also...
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...The documentary film, Catfish, chronicles the story of Nev Ariel and Henry as they Catfish a girl online. This film, released to widespread critical acclaim, earned itself a TV Show, with a total of 77 episodes so far, where they explore different people who have been catfished. A commonality deceptiveness on the internet is not only present in gender, but In other aspects, such as Height Weight and Age, where overall, “48.1%...59.7%...18.7%” (Hancock, Toma, Ellison 3) of men and women lie about those three aspects respectively. So, with the thick blanket of the anonymity shrouded onto the world wide web, leaving people completely freedom to roam, without Barbie dolls or Tonka trucks following them around at every turn. Is there a true application of this, odd anomaly we call the internet? Well...
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...Have you ever heard of a fish that could actually walk out of water? For evolutionists, this could be one of the most interesting, yet terrifying, discoveries. To move outside of water, the walking catfish uses "spines" and flexes its body back and forth as if it were walking. Also, they have a larger breathing organ which allows them to breathe oxygen outside of water. This helps them with traveling longer distances, especially while or after it rains. They’re known to be one of Florida’s most invasive species. They are quite threatening to the environments they’re invading. They’ve been know to invade aquaculture farms and feast on their fish stock. Farmers in the areas they’ve invaded had to put up fences to keep them out. They also carry the disease enteric septicemia (ESC), which is caused by the bacterium Edwadsiella ictaluri. There are high possibilities of these wild catfish spreading the disease through farmed catfish. Scientists don’t know much about walking catfish. They do know, though, that the invaders were very pervasive and had one of the most harmful introductions out of most native species. They were originally released in Florida on accident by Penagra...
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...Self-identification, soul-searching; There are varying degrees and definitions of these introspective moments or phases everyone experiences throughout life. I think most people can relate to driving by a childhood home or neighborhood. It stirs about memories and lends itself to a reflection of who we are, because largely in part it is our experiences and attitudes toward them that help define who we are. In the book Catfish and Mandala, Author Andrew Pham embarks one one of the most dramatic and magnificent journeys I have ever heard. His fatherland in Vietnam and homeland in California are nearly one hundred and eighty degrees apart in geographic location, but his search for his cultural identity lies almost entirely within. His epic travels twenty years after escaping Vietnam take him around the U.S., Japan, and modern day Vietnam on pocket cash and a bicycle. His search and discoveries offer great insight to his plight as a refugee at the age of ten. I would like to discuss his travels, what he gained from them, and what the significance of his travels are. His incredible journey reveals so much on so many levels. Andrew departs on his trip after resigning from his “doomed from the start” job as an engineering post at a major airline (Pham,25). With the economy in a recession and a heavy tinge of disapproval in his fathers eyes, he decides now is the time to liquidate assets and just go. Along the first leg of his trip, the racial tensions in America that Andrew is not...
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...last 3 years, Davidson had been building canoes for himself, using them, and then selling them for marginal profits once he was finished with them. When he decided he was going to purchase a canoe, he was shocked by the expensive prices for poor quality boats. Davidson saw an opportunity to build handcrafted cedar canoes, which he would sell for a premium. When Davidson decided he was going to pursue this business, he enrolled in a 12-week business program at the Entrepreneurial Manufacturing Generator (EMG) in St. Thomas Ontario. In August 1998, Davidson was opening up the Catfish Creek Canoe Company (CCC). He was going to specialize in manufacturing and selling 16-foot Peterborough canoes. Problem Statement: Market the Peterborough canoe in a proper location with an appropriate selling price. Symptoms Steve Davidson is going to experience many different situations while starting up Catfish Creek Canoe Company. He is planning to produce 30 canoes in the first year and average one canoe every ten days which would leave a 65 day buffer period; although, it will take him almost 12 days to produce his first canoes. An experienced craftsman can only make 25 to 30 canoes per year, so if requests increase, Davidson will have to hire more employees to insist him with the demand. The canoe industry is also seasonable; people will not be shopping for canoes in the middle of winter, especially in his target market area of Ontario, Canada. During the cold seasons, Davidson...
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...Storytelling Speech - “A Land-loving Catfish” Once there was a boy who used to spend his day doing different chores around John Mauk’s country store. IButt2014-07-19T17:13:00.25IPause after every full stop. -- He used to prepare corn,IButt2014-07-19T17:12:00.25IShort pause after every comma. -- chop wood,-- go fishing -- and do many other kinds of things there. -- One day he was fishing in a pond, which was a quarter of a mile away from the store. Instead of a fishing rod, he was using a piece of wrapping thread and a cane pole with a big, red worm attached to it to attract the fish. He used to catch a lot of fish that way, and IButt2014-07-19T17:13:00.26IWith excitement sometimes would be lucky to catch more than one fish with the same worm! That day, he caught about nine to thirteen fish in a row, but then all of a sudden, he could not catch any more of them, no matter how long he waited holding his pole in the water. He decided to give up and leave with the fish that he had caught. IButt2014-07-19T16:37:00.26ISay this with excitement plus shock But when he turned around to pick them up, he was shocked to see them all dead and stiff, because they were left to lie there in the hot sun for about two hour. However, the boy noticed that one of the fish was moving and making strange sounds. He was surprised to see IButt2014-07-19T16:37:00.26IWith shock in voice that it was alive unlike the others. He picked it up and dipped it in the water a number of times. He then picked...
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...Impact of hypoxia to the catfish industry Oxygen is important for aerobic organisms, especially for fish who live in the aquatic environment with routinely low dissolved oxygen (Wang et al., 2017b). Under aquaculture conditions, hypoxia can be caused by natural phenomena (e.g., weather, temperature, or water flow rate), water pollution and eutrophication, high stocking density, and improper use of aeration (Green et al., 2016; Wu, 2002; Zhang et al., 2010). In spite of the strong tolerance of catfish to low oxygen, hypoxia can still lead to huge economic losses. Exposure to low oxygen stress can affect the growth rate (Mallya, 2007), feed conversion rate (Buentello et al., 2000), and increase the susceptibility to infectious diseases of catfish...
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...By:Andrea Filippo The Last Hit There were three little kids. The three of them loved baseball, and they were best friends The kids names were Babe Ruth, Catfish Hunter and Andrea Filippo. They were all really good at baseball and made it to the MLB. They were still good friends until one day Catfish Hunter got so mad, because Andrea and Babe Ruth kept on beating him. Catfish Hunter wasn’t their friend anymore.Nine years later they all played for separate teams.Babe Ruth is a star for the New york yankees, Catfish Hunter is a star pitcher for the Oakland A’s and Andrea is a star first baseman for the Boston Red Socks. There having a good first half of the season...
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...and research March 30, 2014 Scenario Nashville, Tennessee—McDonald’s Corp. is trying to hook customers in southern test markets, including one in Kentucky, on a new catfish sandwich. The chain is serving its newest sandwich in Bowling Green, Kentucky; Memphis, Chattanooga, and Jackson, Tennessee; Huntsville, Alabama; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Columbus, Tupelo, Greenville, and Greenwood, Mississippi, said Jane Basten, a marketing specialist for McDonald’s in Nashville. The sandwich consists of a 2.3-ounce catfish patty, lettuce, and tangy sauce served on a homestyle bun. The company will evaluate the sandwich based on sales and supply availability after a six-week ad campaign ends in mid-April. “The advertising will be similar to what we’re doing right now with the grilled steak sandwich,” Basten said. “We will promote it to the fullest and see what happens.” The Catfish Institute, an industry promotion association based in Belzoni, Mississippi, is supplying the catfish. Catfish Institute director Bill Allen said catfish farmers, processors, and marketers are “very excited about this prospect for our industry. This is super good news. “But we don’t want to get our hopes up too much and start thinking this is going to be our salvation, because we already have a viable industry.” Allen said that catfish firms that remember earlier tie-ups with major restaurant chains such as Church’s Fried Chicken are cautiously optimistic about the McDonald’s deal. Discussion 1). The...
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...Policy Research – Implications of Liberalization of Fish Trade for Developing Countries Trade Issues Background Paper: The Impact of Dumping on Trade in Fisheries Products Nigel Peacock Project PR 26109 July 2004 Support unit for International Fisheries & Aquatic Research SIFAR Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome 1 THE IMPACT OF DUMPING ON TRADE IN FISHERIES PRODUCTS This report forms part of a wider study on “Policy Research – Implications of Liberalization of Fish Trade for Developing Countries”, comprising five trade issues background papers and five country case studies. The trade issues background papers are dealing with the following topics: • Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) • Ethical/Social/Eco Certification, Labelling and Guidelines • The Impact of Subsidies on Trade in Fisheries Products • The Impact of Dumping on Trade in Fisheries Products • Fiscal Reforms and Trade in Fisheries Products The case studies cover the following countries: • Bangladesh • Guinea • India • Uganda • Vietnam For a synthesis of the entire study including policy recommendations, see: Bostock, T., Greenhalgh, P. and Kleih, U. (2004), Policy Research – Implications of Liberalization of Fish Trade for Developing Countries – Synthesis Report. Chatham, UK: Natural Resources Institute. ISBN 0 85954 560-1. Copies of the various reports are available on the following websites: • www.onefish.org/id/225570...
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