Yearly Archives: 2018

The University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program has received close to $1 million for aquaculture research in support of food security research, education and outreach in the state. By Big Island Now Maria Haws, director of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant’s Center of Excellence in Sustainable Aquaculture and Coastal Resources and […]

Intensive processing has served as an effective tool for Vietnamese shrimp exporters to improve their competitive capacity in the context of a steep increase in the global supply which brought down the price and demand for shrimp in major markets. By Vietnamplus According to Ho Quoc Luc, former Chairman of the […]

For the first time, scientists decipher the entire genome of the striped catfish, paving the way for better breeding of the critical commercial species. By Eurekalert The striped catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus makes its home in the legendary Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia and largest inland fishery in the […]

Queensland could soon be known as the aquaculture capital of the world thanks to a booming demand for seafood. By Geordi Offord, Rural Weekly The industry is surpassing beef to become one of the fastest growing sectors globally, with some farmers diversifying into it. Cane farmer Michael Deguara added barramundi […]

The money received will fund two programs that help farm moi, plus establish a program that integrated research currently being conducted by UH’s School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology and College of tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. By Laura Schweizer Hawaii U.S. Senator Brian Schatz announced Tuesday that the National […]

In this age of economic disturbances and worsening food crises, it is important that a country like Sri Lanka find profitable industries for her sustainable development. As a source of both food and finance, it is not difficult to see why many of the developing countries are now turning to […]

Thirty miles outside Minneapolis, the only structures interrupting miles of waist-high corn are a few long buildings covered in white siding. Those structures belong to Cargill—the $115 billion-in-sales agricultural giant that has topped Forbes’ list of America’s largest private companies for 28 of the past 30 years—and they house one […]

The INvertebrateIT project is pleased to announce an open call to all stakeholders in aquaculture to collaborate with three forward-thinking small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on several promising invertebrate-based feed solutions. By: AquaTT INvertebrateIT connects aquaculture stakeholders to exploit invertebrate-based solutions for sustainable feed © AquaTT The SMEs were selected […]

The “blue economy” is becoming an important part of the development agenda, focusing on the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs, while preserving the health of marine and coastal ecosystems. By Lisa Cornish But gender is still rarely a focus, even as growing fisheries […]

The University of Rhode Island has been awarded federal funding to help strengthen training programs for aquaculture workers and develop an online training curriculum that can be deployed nationwide. By The Associated Press Rhode Island’s congressional delegation says URI’s Rhode Island Sea Grant program was awarded nearly $750,000. The funding […]