In The Hobbit, Tolkien's 1937 children's tale, hairy homunculus Bilbo Baggins first encounters Gollum in the dark caves of the Misty Mountains, where he lives a (relatively) contented existence fishing for blind, bug-eyed prey in murky pools and occasionally murdering passing goblins.
It is so provincial to knock people for wanting to leave the fish-bowl existence, the fish bowl they have given every amount of their passion and energy to.
In just the first two years of its existence, FISH-I Africa got illegal vessels to pay almost $3m in fines for their infringements.
But conservative catch limits are the only way to keep species like cod from being fished out of existence.
This level of catch, and unknown amounts of bootleg fishing that many believe has flourished since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its control of the industry, has led scientists to conclude that Caspian sturgeons are in danger of being fished out of existence.
The reason for this is the existence of fish restaurants, which are assumed to be rigid and not easily damaged.
The continuous existence of fish in the whole of Nigeria and especially in the Niger Delta is currently being jeopardized as a result of pollution from anthropogenic activities (Arimoro et al. 2006, Ekeke et al. 2008; Obasohan and Oronsaye 2009; Ogamba et al. 2014).
To address the effects of latitude, altitude and existence of fish predators on morphology and mtDNA type, we performed multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) by designating the latitude, altitude, and the existence of fish predators (1 or 0) as independent variables and mtDNA types, CL1, CL2 and as dependent variables.
Our data enable us to clarify the serial duplication of the single invertebrate dystrophin gene to give rise to the vertebrate dystrophin, utrophin and DRP2 genes; we also reveal the existence in fish (and almost certainly in our own ancestors) of a third dystrobrevin gene.
We confirmed the existence of a fish Dp116 transcript by RT-PCR from D. rerio whole animal RNA [GenBank: DQ788695].
We confirmed the existence of a fish G-utrophin transcript by RT-PCR from D. rerio whole animal RNA [GenBank: DQ788696].
