Breeder: Two-headed salmon born out of 50 eggs — Usually around 1 in 10,000 says Kyoto professor (PHOTO)

Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 3:49 pm ET
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Title: Conjoint fish
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: February 2nd, 2012

Conjoint larval fish of salmon is found in Fukuchi shi Kyoto 

Mr. Miyamoto Tadao (67) received 50 eggs from environmental symposium of Yura river on 1/7/2012. [...]

On 1/29/2012, they found one with 2 heads.

The deformed larval fish is 1.5cm long where other ones are 2 cm. When one of the heads try to go to left, the other one sometimes tries to go to right. It can’t move fast.

Assistant professor Ueno Masahiro from Kyoto university field research center talks, the kind of deformation happens once in thousands or tens of thousand. [...]

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Title: Birth family reared in larval survival of salmon wish tough and double-headed “Good luck”
Source: Youtan Shinbun
Date: Jan 31, 2012
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SOURCE:Youtan Shinbun

Two head, the tail portion larvae of the salmon one is found. 

Are surprised by larvae are breeding in the home (67) Mr. Tadao Miyamoto Oikezaka Fukuchiyama town, “but the salmon are breeding from two years ago, but this is the first time”

Miyamoto-san from the year 2010, participate in the business environment conservation salmon stocking salmon Executive Committee to make a citizen Fukuchiyama Yura, Ayabe hosted by the two cities. [...]

50 receives the eggs on January 7 this year, raising the water tank on top of the shoe box put the front door at home.

I have found the larvae except when the water tank 29, there are two head. [...]

If you try to go head to the left is more of the other hand, such as the right to go to the other direction, there is a swim when you separate, appear to be slow motion compared with other larvae.

It is also possible that genetic, or did this happen at the time of the (cleavage), been made ​​in stimulating some cell division “(61) is Assistant Professor Masahiro Ueno experimental field Fisheries Maizuru Center Field Science Education and Research, Kyoto University.

that are described as “born in probability is a fraction of tens of thousands.  Say about the growth of the future “because As soon as start eating the food on their own, become difficult to eat the food as I also think both sides, there is a possibility they starve to death, long is not likely to live” [...]

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18 comments to Breeder: Two-headed salmon born out of 50 eggs — Usually around 1 in 10,000 says Kyoto professor (PHOTO)

  • Anthony Anthony

    Searching for radiation I found and posted a link in the forum with a video of a MASSIVE PRAWN caught in NZ recently. MASSIVE.


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  • enemoe

    Headlien makes it sound like they are finding 1 in 50 salmon born with two heads, when really they found 1 two headed salmon in 50 eggs. It might well be the case that there is a higher rate of this deformity in wild salmon in Japan, but finding 1 in a single sample of 50 is not comprable to the expected 1 in 10,000.

    Shout me down if you like, but this headline is misleading and typical of why this site is not taken seriously in the general public.


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  • arclight arclight

    well i have a fishy tail.. i mean a fishy tale.. sort of OT

    January 23, 2012

    The President

    The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
    Secretary Salazar
    Department of the Interior
    1849 C Street NW
    Washington, DC 20240

    Dear President Obama and Secretary Salazar,
    Decisions about resource extraction on the Outer Continental Shelf should be based on sound scientific information.

    remember old john kelly and the mysterious seal tissue samples? think they became a prawn.. i mean pawn of the game..

    “The report’s 62 recommendations indicate many pressing needs including:
    further research on the physical and biological environment of the region, studies on specific aspects of the life history of important species, the development of a comprehensive monitoring program that can detect environmental change and identify the drivers of such change, the synthesis of existing information in order to answer key questions including the identification of ecologically significant areas, an assessment of cumulative impacts from multiple sources, greater inclusion of the traditional knowledge of Arctic residents, the creation of a data management system that provides timely sharing of information from all research activities, and a closer integration of scientific studies and findings with decisions being made about offshore industrial activity.”

    http://www.pewenvironment.org/uploadedFiles/PEG/Publications/Other_Resource/ScientistsLetter-OCSDevelopment.pdf

    so whats really going on eh???


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  • Al-Chemisto

    Restaurent (full disclosure ) Menu (seen in Tokyo:

    Prawn: (super size): 500Becq/kg
    used in sushi portion: 10g: giving you: 5Becq
    Rice: (normal size): 500Becg/kg
    used in sushi portion: 20g: 10 Becg.
    Nori (free of radiation) (1g used):
    Since you should not exceed NNN (today’s health ceiling[Becg])/day
    please do not consume a total of more than Ng of Super Prawn Sushi.

    My master analytical self escapes me at the moment, so it could be more numberically accurate. :)

    Let’s move to the Giant! Oyster Sushi, next!


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    • Al-Chemisto

      If I had a bone to pick with the article I would say: “Where is your statistical sampling of the ova?” Since they tested only 50eggs and not 500 million, they can not accurately say N/M times the normal level of mutations was found.

      So the article gives a possible false alarm, but it is definitetly a larger study that should be done. Yesterday.

      But closing the leaks in Daiinchi 4 and making sure that SFP is happy (in cold shutdown! (gag!)) is a far higher priority.

      That should cause Russia and China to invade and send in the 4 million workers with concrete and boron bags. And lots of spores from Fungi Perfecti master Paul Stamets.


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  • Deadly Snowstorm Kills Over 50 People in Japan

    Uploaded bhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IFxAaobj0&feature=player_detailpagey IBTimesTV on Feb 1, 2012

    At least 53 people are dead and over 600 injured as a massive storm hit Japan dumping at least 10 feet of snow on the Western coast.

    http://www.ibtimestv.com


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  • Monkeys Track Nuclear Fallout at Japan’s Fukushima

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DkEKDdvQYw&feature=player_detailpage

    http://www.no-rad-zone.com/monkeys-track-japan-fallout.php (NO-RAD-ZONE) Monkeys Track Nuclear Fallout at Fukushima Wild Japanese macaque monkeys and wild boars are set to gather information from Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. We explain what devices are used to gather data, how it works and …


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  • Cindy

    maybe the other 9,950 Salmon eggs will hatch out fine ??


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  • *Audio* Genetically-Modified Papaya Hits Shelves in Japan

    Debate continues over whether to label all GMO foods
    “Rainbow” papayas recently went on sale in Japan.
    They are the only gene-altered fruit on the market today in Japan, a country with strict laws regarding genetically-modified organisms

    http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Genetically-Modified-Papaya-Hits-Shelves-in-Japan-138643939.html


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  • rebelgroove

    I wish those responsible for providing us with our news took a little more care in their thoughts before committing them to paper (or to web).

    A two-headed salmon was detected within a sample of 50. That has no influence on the average ratio of deformed-to-mormals as implied by the headline, simply that the deformed one was in this particular subset of the 10,000.

    If you showed me several groups of 50 each, and at least two had mutations, then I’d consider the argument.


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  • ali-ali-al-qomfri ali-ali-al-qomfri

    So, in the wild, this type of mutated fish will be the first picked on by larger fish in the food chain, meaning that the mutation contaminant will be picked up faster by the larger predators and so on, it will reach out food chain faster, yikes.


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