Fish Food Chain / Food Web

[Tom Kelly]

I'd like to diagram fish food chains somehow.  I have no idea how we could do it?

This is why I think this is important.

Fish heavy metals build up as you go up the food chain.  The recommendations for pregnant women is to eat fish with low toxins and high omega 3 fatty acids I think... up to 2 times a week.  However, other fish, like tuna, shark, swordfish (but they are going extinct so don't eat them) etc that are higher up the food chain are recommended to eat them less often.

I believe Purdue university is actually one of the major researchers in this area - I thought  I read a news article about purdue research on fish toxins.

Anyway, if we could diagram the fish food-chain... well, it would be an easy graphical way to view this.

I can't do it alone and a wiki is the perfect spot to do it.  And why not have it verified by experts?  I also could use help finding websites which would be useful.  I don't know what category of the forum this should go in, so please make enteries below and then if an admin has an idea where this entry should go, they can move it.

Cheers!!

"Sushi lovers unite"

[Tom Kelly]

post links that will help below:

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/marinefoodwebs.htm

[Tom Kelly]

surely, we can do better than wikipedia's articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_dynamics
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chain

besides, I'd like to see food-chains worked in to subpages for articles about animals, fish, etc.

[Tom Kelly]

so, I'd like to make the figures somehow easily editable - so if someone saw a animal / fish / bird etc that could be added to the diagram(s) / figures, they could easily insert it...

but I have no idea how that could be done.

[Tom Kelly]

So here is a situation.

You are at a sushi restaurant and you learn about a new fish.

You come back to citizendium and you look up the fish.  Say it is something common like Hamachi (yellow tail - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_amberjack)

So you look up the article in CZ, and one of the subpages is the food chain / web for that fish.

You can see in a diagram if it is an algae eater, small fish eater, etc, quickly... and besides - humans seem to remember pictures better than text.

then you could see another subpage with toxin levels recorded in this fish by various heavy metal studies etc.

You could see links to news articles talking about the fish, etc etc.

As someone who used to be openly against subpages - I now absolutely love them and see their potential.

Thank you to everyone who made subpages and put up with me thinking they were a bad idea.  Especially Chris Day who works so hard on them.

EDIT: better yet - u look up the article on your web enabled phone at the restaurant.