Yearly Archives: 2018

TasPorts and Petuna will assess the potential for the Port of Stanley as a land base to support salmon farming over the next 12 months. By Sarah Lansdown TasPorts chief operating officer Anthony Donald said the Port of Stanley was an ideal location for future aquaculture operations. “TasPorts is always […]

Students from both Eden Marine High School and Eden Public have enjoyed recent excursions swapping the classroom for a river cruise – complete with oyster tasting. By Edenmagnet The tours were facilitated by the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre and funded by the Foundation For Rural and Regional Renewal. While Eden […]

Crack open the oysters and mussels! WA is poised to become a leading producer of shellfish, promising plenty of jobs along the way. By Particle.scitech A newly opened hatchery in Albany has started producing huge numbers of shellfish spat or larvae. Traditionally, it’s been very difficult to get significant and […]

On July 19, 2018, the Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT), a leading aquaculture R&D company focused on improving productivity, efficiency and sustainability in the aquaculture industry, filed a patent application regarding a method of generating sterile fish, shrimp, or mollusks. By Aquatechcenter This application is the first in a planned […]

The MoU was stamped in Buenos Aires at the recent G20 Agriculture ministerial meeting by Argentina’s Luis Miguel Etchevehere and Spain’s Luis Planas. By Mercopress Argentina and Spain have signed a fisheries and aquaculture bilateral cooperation Memorandum of Understanding. The MoU was stamped in Buenos Aires during the recent G20 […]

After successful cooperation on tourism, China and Morocco are studying ways to reinforce cooperation on fisheries and aquaculture sectors. By Safaa Kasraoui Secretary of State for Sea Fisheries Mbarka Bouaida and Deputy Mayor Wang Luming, of Qingdao in Shandong province, eastern China, held talks in Rabat on Thursday, July 26, […]

Still energized by what they learned on a recent trip to abalone farms and oyster fisheries in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, Japan, three local officials are looking into the possibility of bringing similar industries and a possible joint economic development project to the Del Norte Coast. By Tony Reed/ Triplicate Del Norte County […]

Aquaread Asia will be releasing a new series of Aquaprobes for the Aquaculture industry. By Envirotech-online The Aquaulture- multi kit provides measurements for pH, ORP, Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity (Salinity), Temperature and allows further expansion for measurement sensors like depth, chlorophyll, blue-green algae, Turbidity and etc. The multiparameter probes are designed […]

Scientists at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography have spent 15 years trying to domesticate Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the ocean’s greatest apex predators. The atmosphere in the new tuna-rearing facility in the small coastal town of Mazzaron, in southeastern Spain, is dead calm. It has to be. About 100 […]

Some 56 fishpond owners and operators in Tarlac City have participated in a training on aquaculture production, the city government said. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Office III, in coordination with the Tarlac City Agriculture Office, conducted the training, specifically on tilapia, held recently at the […]