Pill to Gill
by: David Biello
Friday, February 15, 2013
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http://ogoapes.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/3/9/3239894/pill_to_gill_antianxiety_drugs_flushed_into_water_may_be_
making_fishes_fearless_scientific_american.pdf
The article talks about how pills well-known as calming drugs or benzodiazepines commonly known as valium and Xanax affect fish when feed to them in order to make them less anxious because they are very anxious naturally.
The drug is used all over the world by people and is exerted through urine, it’s the same for fish but some types of the drug can’t even be broken down by sun light so it’ll stay in their body, Swedish researchers conducted experiments to see how it affects fish with low level. The experiment took place with low level
drugged fish. The experiment took place with the same fish whose levels in the wild had been measured they used 90 juvenile European peril and record how active their behavior was in a clean water. They implied risk taking behaviors next they exposed them to high levels of the drugs. The effects were much more active and risk-taking. After three days you can just tell by looking said the researchers.
The effect of this on environment is that it has a negative effect on the fish or marine ecosystem. When fishes take the antianxiety they become fearless, as the experiment shows ,normal fish are prey in 75 seconds, low level in 25 seconds and the highest in just two seconds, which shows quite a difference related to the other two. Depending on what kind of species are getting infected by the drug, but there’s a big chance they’ll be eaten fast and that’ll have an effect on the ecosystem it’ll speed it’s rate by quite a bit it also might increase the decreasing rate of the prey’s specie.
Even though drugged fish are not likely to affect humans, doesn’t mean we should ignore this aquatic issue, we should minimize the amount from very little to zero so their body or the fishes themselves don’t; get used to it , get a lot amount that makes them anxious free or get anything at all.
http://ogoapes.weebly.com/uploads/3/2/3/9/3239894/pill_to_gill_antianxiety_drugs_flushed_into_water_may_be_
making_fishes_fearless_scientific_american.pdf
The article talks about how pills well-known as calming drugs or benzodiazepines commonly known as valium and Xanax affect fish when feed to them in order to make them less anxious because they are very anxious naturally.
The drug is used all over the world by people and is exerted through urine, it’s the same for fish but some types of the drug can’t even be broken down by sun light so it’ll stay in their body, Swedish researchers conducted experiments to see how it affects fish with low level. The experiment took place with low level
drugged fish. The experiment took place with the same fish whose levels in the wild had been measured they used 90 juvenile European peril and record how active their behavior was in a clean water. They implied risk taking behaviors next they exposed them to high levels of the drugs. The effects were much more active and risk-taking. After three days you can just tell by looking said the researchers.
The effect of this on environment is that it has a negative effect on the fish or marine ecosystem. When fishes take the antianxiety they become fearless, as the experiment shows ,normal fish are prey in 75 seconds, low level in 25 seconds and the highest in just two seconds, which shows quite a difference related to the other two. Depending on what kind of species are getting infected by the drug, but there’s a big chance they’ll be eaten fast and that’ll have an effect on the ecosystem it’ll speed it’s rate by quite a bit it also might increase the decreasing rate of the prey’s specie.
Even though drugged fish are not likely to affect humans, doesn’t mean we should ignore this aquatic issue, we should minimize the amount from very little to zero so their body or the fishes themselves don’t; get used to it , get a lot amount that makes them anxious free or get anything at all.