Monthly Archives: February 2019

A new Centre of Innovation in Aquaculture is due to be established in Singapore, the country’s finance minister announced recently. Written by: editorial / the fish site.com   Heng Swee Keat said that the government-funded center, which will be attached to Temasek Polytechnic, aims to promote high tech marine production as […]

The US farmed catfish industry has nearly everything going for it – good grain prices, fair feed prices, and a much more level playing field with imports – except it has to work through old, larger inventory in the pond. Written by: Liza Mayer / AqucultureNorthAmerica.com Illustration: freepik.com   The […]

Seafish, the public body that supports the £10bn UK seafood industry, has attracted an impressive line-up of speakers from trade, industry, and science for its first Scottish Seafood Summit: Focus on Brexit. Written by: editorial / worldfishing.net   The inaugural event, held in Aberdeen next month, will focus on the […]

Researcher Florent Govaerts has researched French newspapers over a ten-year period to examine what is being been written about Norwegian salmon. Most of the 134 articles were negative, which might have had a negative impact on its reputation. Written by: Florent Govaerts   France is one of Norway’s most important salmon […]

Mississippi State-developed vaccination technologies are being commercialized to help the catfish industry save millions for the state that leads the nation in production. Written by: Vanessa Beeson Photo credit: Kenner Patton / MSU website In 2018, 160 catfish operations across 36,000 acres statewide totaled $164 million in production value. Additionally, […]

From the rivers of the Pacific Northwest to those of Russia and Japan, tenacious adult chum salmon converge on their spawning grounds in autumn and early winter to reinitiate the cycle of life. However, Takaaki Abe from The University of Tokyo, Japan, explains that the odysseys endured by the returning […]

Biofloc systems could allow shrimp farmers to double stocking densities without impacting growth rates, according to the results of a new study published in the journal Aquaculture.   Written by: Rob Fletcher / editor The Fish Site Increasing stocking densities tends to cause chronic stress in aquaculture, mainly due to overcrowding […]

The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a small 600-island nation in the Pacific Ocean with a little more than 100,000 people, has ordered an official review of its tuna fishing policies and practices, the Marianas Variety reports. Written by: editorial / Undercurrent News The value of tuna fishing access in the FSM’s […]

For the people of the Solomon Islands, the sea cucumber is just a slug-looking creature that helps to keep their bays and lagoons clean of pollutants. But in China, they are a delicacy essential for a range of traditional dishes – and they will pay top dollar for the finest quality. Written […]

Molluscs that scrape algae off ocean rocks using extremely hard, magnetic teeth could help lead to a huge variety of new technology, including wear-resistant coatings and nano-scale energy materials. Written by: editorial / Institution of Mechanical Engineers / IMECHE.org Photo credit: A single chiton tooth, showing the magnetite cusp (author: […]