Research shows that even fish farmers have doubts as to whether using cleaner fish is an effective delousing method. "Fish farmers tell us that they want a ban on the use of certain species. They're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleaner wrasse quickly scraped off a mirror-only mark, then used shrimp scraps to probe mirror space, researchers report. (CREDIT: ...

Cleaner wrasse quickly learn to recognize themselves in mirrors, and take advantage of the information their reflection provides. They also experiment with the mirror in a way we might call playful, ...

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A growing demand for cleaner fish in salmon farms raises concerns about overfishing and human-mediated geneflow to wild populations. A recent study reveals that up to 20 percent of the local ...

'Antisocial' damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers -- and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown. Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt 'cleaning services' vital to the health ...

Sea lice attached to the skin of a wild salmon. Salmon farms have been plagued by parasitic sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) since they were first established in Norway in the 1960s. The small ...

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A shrimp scrap drifted down the face of a mirror, and a small reef fish tracked it like it was watching a slow-motion experiment. The fish, a blue-streak cleaner wrasse, had carried the shrimp upward, ...