Taiwan aquarium feeds vegetables to fish to make them lose weight
An aquarium in Taiwan has been feeding vegetables to its sea fish to help them lose weight...

Aquaria 'risk to tropical fish'
Some of the most colourful and attractive fish to swim the tropical seas may be threatened by the aquarium trade, the United Nations believes...

Freed Pet Fish Threaten Native Species, Study Says
The aquarium fish industry is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year worldwide and is growing rapidly. Much of this money flows into developing countries where the majority of popular tropical marine species...

From river to retailer
Matt Clarke has been to the middle Rio Negro in Brazil to find out how fish get from a South American river to an aquatic shop...

The Good Goldfish Guide - Celestials and Pom poms
This month we’ll take a look at two varieties you’ll either love - or love to hate: the Celestial and the Pom-pom goldfish...

Are your fish illegal?
Recent changes in legislation mean that a licence is now required for many unusual coldwater fishes. Matt Clarke investigates...

24 carat gold
How long have you been keeping fish? For Arthur Marshall it’s something he’s spent half his life doing - and he’s 70 this year...

The Good Goldfish Guide - Moors and Globe-eyes
let’s compare the Globe-eye goldfish with the Broadtail moor...

Water the birthplace of flowers
An ancient Chinese fossil of a flower adds to the growing body of evidence that angiosperms originated underwater....

References and Further Reading
Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent; 2004
John Pickrell National Geographic News June 1, 2004
http://www.ananova.com
Matt Clarke Practical Fishkeeping magazine; June 2004
Dudley Turner, 62 Balstonia Drive, Stanford-le-hope, Essex SS17 8HX
Goldfish Society of Great Britain, c/o Don Smith, 210 Kirby Road, Portsmouth, Hants. PO2 0OB.
Anna Salleh - ABC Science Online
Dudley Turner, 62 Balstonia Drive, Stanford-le-hope, Essex,