Essays on Fish

In “Of Pain, Predators and Pleasure” Walter Issacs considers the issue of whether fish feel pain when hooked by angler, and supports the idea that fish, experience extreme stress after being caught by human. Moreover, Issacs supports his claim by using a combination of personal...

Sunscreen… On my skin, in the water? What’s the big deal? Many of my favourite pass times are going to the beach, hiking, and camping. These activities all have something in common. The outdoors and the sun. Although I love being outside in the sun,...

The Broadfin shark (Lamiopsis temminckii) is a rare fish and distributed irregularly in Pakistan, India, Burma, Indonesia, Sarawak and China. It is found on continental shelf, mostly near to shore. This specie is captured at bottom mostly by floating gillnets and line gear but sometimes...

Having a chemical composition of C11H12Cl2N2o5, chloramphenicol is an aromatic compound. This aromatic compound is mainly used for treatment of bacterial infection. In 1947 chloramphenicol was discovered, and in 1949 chemical structure was confirmed. This is one of the world health organizations’ listed essential medicine...

Fishes are cold blooded aquatic animals, they have gills for respiration and fins for movement. Fishes are source of important nutrients, such as protein, lipid and carbohydrate. Fisheries sector provide about 3. 74% in national GDP, also contributes about 2. 7% in export earnings. So,...

The Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus suckleyi) has been widely used as a representative species for chondrichthyan CO2 excretion. S. suckleyi has a slow red blood cell (RBC) carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoform, extracellular CA activity, no endogenous plasma CA inhibitor and plasma accessible CAIV at the...

The film Big Fish by Tim Burton is movie about a man named Edward Bloom who has great gift for telling stories, many of which he tells to his son Will. As Will grows older, he begins to grow a distaste and resentment towards his...