As the population grows, and the global standard of living improves, humanity’s appetite for seafood is increasing. In 2020 seafood consumption reached an all-time high, with an average of 20kg consumed annually by every person on the planet. Written by: editorial / Technology Networks.com Up to now most of this […]
Daily Archives: 08/11/2020
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The Aquaculture Stewardship Council has translated its Shrimp, Tilapia, and Tropical Marine Finfish Standards and related guidance documents into Indonesian to help more farmers in the country work towards more responsible practices. Information source: ASC media release Indonesia is the world’s second largest producer of farmed fish, making it a […]
Fish production during the first half of this year reached close to one billion, marking a nearly one percent rise from figures recorded in the same period last year. Written by: Som Kaninka / Khmer Times In a recent Facebook post, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon said […]
Recently the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the NOAA Fisheries effort to overturn a lower court decision that found the word “harvesting” within the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act did not provide Congressional authority to regulate marine aquaculture in federal waters. Information source: NAA media […]
Last July, after an occasionally arduous two-year process, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection issued the first of four draft orders that will allow Nordic Aquafarms to commence construction of a $500 million state-of-the-art, sustainable land-based salmon farm in Belfast. At full capacity, the facility will produce roughly 33,000 metric […]