Written by experts who pioneered use of genetic data to search for the aggressive fish, the paper disagrees with government scientists who say many of the positive Asian carp DNA hits recorded in or near the lakes in recent years could have come from other sources, such as excrement from birds that fed on carp in distant rivers.

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Being by the sea has always given me a boost, and it's great seeing them drop their electronic devices and jaded teen act in favour of eating fish and chips out of paper or building a fortress in the sand.

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Some market traders complain that products such as fish and meat cannot be carried in paper bags.

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On paper, the correlation between heavy fish consumption and low incidence of bipolar disorder is a strong one.

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Here, fillets are used and parchment paper, rather than just the fish's skin, provides an extra barrier between the meat and the salt.

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As recently as 50 years ago, the whitetip may have once outnumbered all the other big fish in the gulf, according to a paper published in Ecology Letters.

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By contrast, Jean Weissenbach and his colleagues at Genoscope in France made their estimate by comparing the raw human sequence now available (about 60% of the total when their paper was written) with that of a puffer fish.

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