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 Post subject: Two headed fish
PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 11:04 
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A VET has savaged the findings of his own taskforce after it found no definitive link between farm chemicals and two-headed fish at a Queensland hatchery.

Fish scientist and vet Matt Landos was part of a taskforce formed to look at deformities, including double-headed and three-tailed fish, at the Sunland Fish Hatchery near Noosa.

But Dr Landos says its majority finding - that chemicals used on a neighbouring nut farm could not be definitively blamed - is seriously flawed.

He says the taskforce was stacked with bureaucrats and others who lacked the right scientific expertise to make a proper judgment.

Among its members were 10 scientists, six government communication and policy officers, and the chief executive of the Australian Macadamia Association


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/features/environ ... z1OkD3ogCe
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 Post subject: Re: Two headed fish
PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 12:24 
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Yeah, of course they would be very helpful in working out whether the spray had an effect on the fish..
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 Post subject: Re: Two headed fish
PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 13:19 
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I would've thought a two headed fish was a good thing... two heads, they'd eat twice as much and consequently grow twice as quick... wouldn't they??? :dontknow:
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PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 13:20 
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I would've thought a two headed fish was a good thing... two heads, they'd eat twice as much and consequently grow twice as quick... wouldn't they??? :dontknow:

Nah, you want twice as many sides, not heads !!!
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PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 13:25 
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one head 2 bodies and no bones. :)
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 Post subject: Re: Two headed fish
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one head 2 bodies and no bones. :)

basically a cross between a trout and a jellyfish then.... :think:
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Are they sure it was in Queensland? Maybe Tasmania? Could be a typo... :lol:
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PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 21:34 
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Wasn't the farm next door that sprayed.... a macadamia farm....
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 Post subject: Re: Two headed fish
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PostPosted: Jun 9th, '11, 22:08 
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The chemical blamed for these abnormalities is endosulfan, along with some other nasty side effects it has
Fortunately it was banned in october last year.....unfortunately you can still use it for the next two years....so every macca farmer will be dumping shiploads of it on their crops to use it up. :-x
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there was a similar case in tassie where the oyster harvest suddenly plummeted - upstream pine plantations were trying a new chemical

carna pies! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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 Post subject: Re: Two headed fish
PostPosted: Jun 10th, '11, 05:53 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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chillidude wrote:
Mr Damage wrote:
I would've thought a two headed fish was a good thing... two heads, they'd eat twice as much and consequently grow twice as quick... wouldn't they??? :dontknow:

Nah, you want twice as many sides, not heads !!!


Why are genetic %$^%ups never tasty? I want a mutant crayfish, with a pin head, an enormous spherical tail, loves fresh water, with thousand island dressing for blood. How hard can that be to organise?

Where is [insert favourite deity/evolutionist/great pumpkin] when you need them?

Someone isn't pulling their weight!

And another thing! Why doesn't salad form a direct symbiotic relationship with protein that can swim, and just grow on its back like it should? A SilverPerchLetuceGingerAndLimeSaladFish makes much more sense!

Pull your finger out dawkins
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BullwinkleII wrote:
And another thing! Why doesn't salad form a direct symbiotic relationship with protein that can swim, and just grow on its back like it should? A SilverPerchLetuceGingerAndLimeSaladFish makes much more sense!

Ask, and you shall receive...

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(via chrisvanwyksadventures, snorkeling the Mary River)

(note: I know these turtles are endangered, and do not advocate eating them. Just a joke!)
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