Inbreeding With White Flounders?!
Source: ScienceDaily
Date: October 2, 2013
Website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724103005.htm
There's inbreeding with white flounders in Long Island's bays?! Apparently, yes. Scientists from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at SBU researched six bays at Long Island. They saw that local populations of white flounder are inbred. However, this was never really considered a situation in marine fisheries management. The effective number of breeders in each bay was below 500 fish. The spawning populations of this common fish are now relatively small in the area. Inbreeding has lead to lower survival and reproductive rates. It also leads to lower resistance to disease and environmental stress, which leads to the decreasing of fish populations. However, it was never considered a problem so the fisheries didn't do anything about it. The scientists are now considering thinking about experimenting this.
I chose this article because it seemed interesting to me. It's interesting to me because inbreeding was never considered a problem before until now. Why is it considered a problem now of all times? Couldn't they have done something about this sooner? They couldn't because the fish population also needs to reproduce. If you look at this picture of Flounder from The Little Mermaid, think about the fish with a very low population. In order to have a bigger population, they inbreed with each other. That way, Flounder here, will have a bigger family. In order to get a higher population, fish will inbreed with each other. That is what is happening in this article.
Sometimes you wonder what would happen if we let them be? If we had ignored it and let them continue inbreeding, dangerous things could happen to the fish. Inbreeding has lead to lower survival and reproductive rates. Some fish could reproduce, however, they will be vulnerable against disease and environmental stress. Because of that, the fish population will only decrease even more. That is why I'm glad that the scientists are deciding to experiment on the flounders to see if there is a way to stop the decreasing of all the fish. I'm sure they will find a way. Well, I'm done with this article. Thank for reading my article, and I hope to see you reading them again. I'll see you later. Peace!
I chose this article because it seemed interesting to me. It's interesting to me because inbreeding was never considered a problem before until now. Why is it considered a problem now of all times? Couldn't they have done something about this sooner? They couldn't because the fish population also needs to reproduce. If you look at this picture of Flounder from The Little Mermaid, think about the fish with a very low population. In order to have a bigger population, they inbreed with each other. That way, Flounder here, will have a bigger family. In order to get a higher population, fish will inbreed with each other. That is what is happening in this article.
Sometimes you wonder what would happen if we let them be? If we had ignored it and let them continue inbreeding, dangerous things could happen to the fish. Inbreeding has lead to lower survival and reproductive rates. Some fish could reproduce, however, they will be vulnerable against disease and environmental stress. Because of that, the fish population will only decrease even more. That is why I'm glad that the scientists are deciding to experiment on the flounders to see if there is a way to stop the decreasing of all the fish. I'm sure they will find a way. Well, I'm done with this article. Thank for reading my article, and I hope to see you reading them again. I'll see you later. Peace!