Research project to make barra grow faster

Queensland’s James Cook University has been awarded $350,000 in federal funding to investigate which families of barramundi grow the fastest.

Doctor Dean Jerry says the university hopes to cultivate a strain of fast-growing, consistently-sized barramundi.

He says that will create a higher turnover of fish bred in captivity.

“Any production system, the longer you have to grow the product, the more it costs you in the end to grow that product,” he says.

“So what we are trying to do is identify those really fast growing fish, they’re the most profitable to grow, and eliminate the farmers having to rear these inferior fish.”

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Plan to save Britain’s red phone boxes

A British politician says he has won a victory for an endangered icon — the red telephone booth.

Thousands of the kiosks have been removed in recent years as mobile telephones have cut into payphone use.

Conservative Party lawmaker Alan Duncan says phone company BT PLC has agreed to let communities adopt the booths — minus their telephones — to help preserve local heritage. Local authorities can keep the phones as well if they pay part of the maintenance costs.

BT announced plans in April to remove 9,000 phone booths, including many of the red models designed by Giles Gilbert Scott.

Duncan said Thursday that the ”adopt-a-kiosk” plan would help ensure ”that red phone boxes do not disappear into the great gray blur of the modern British streetscape.”

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