Freshwater fishes get to ride in fish ark
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 23:42
in Earth & Climate
In the Old Testament, Noah built an ark, unknowing if the rains would ever come, he entrusted his fate with God. Limnology experts at the University of the Philippines Los Baños have turned themselves into little Noahs, building “arks” to provide a haven to our native and endemic freshwater fishes. The collected fishes, according to Dr. Vachel Gay Paller of the UPLB Limnological Research Station (UPLB LRS), will be part of the “Fish Ark Philippines”—a project aimed to study and conserve these erstwhile untapped resources.