The BC Seafood Festival 2018, a celebration of BC’s aquaculture industry, is fast approaching. There is no better time than right now to highlight this conversation from last year’s seafood festival. The past four years with the BCSFA has been an incredible experience and introduced me to the talented women and men working in B.C. and the global seafood sector,”...
According to trade sources, Indian aquaculture production is estimated to touch a record 7 lakh tonne during the current fiscal and reach 1 million tonne by 2020. Indian shrimp production is estimated to increase by 10% in 2018, provided the climate does not create major problems, according to a report by Globefish, a division of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)....
Waycobah’s steelhead trout industry has received $1 million in funding from the federal Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency to help expand its operations. The First Nation band will use the money to buy cages, nets, moorings and a work barge, upgrade docks, perform electrical work and add a fish counter. “We’re two-thirds of where we want to be in terms of...
Small-scale aquaculture will never succeed if producers Travelling in Thailand a few years ago, I took the road from Bangkok towards the Cambodian border, across the farmlands of the south. Farms of all types could be seen on both sides of the road: rice fields, banana and other fruit farms, vegetable lands, and large fish ponds. Many people were working...
St. John’s will be the host of what is expected to be the largest aquaculture conference in Canadian history in 2020. The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) recently agreed to bring its conference to the St. John’s Convention Centre. It is partnering with Aquaculture Association of Canada (AAC) and Newfoundland and Labrador Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA) to do so. “WAS has...
After it is revealed more than a million farmed fish died within six months in Macquarie Harbour, one salmon company effectively says "we told you so", another says the dead fish were "replaced quickly" and the third says it has no obligation to detail its losses to the public. Fish in the Macquarie Harbour Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority (EPA) confirmed...
The Fisheries Agency said Thursday that it aims to allow companies to launch aquafarming operations by reviewing the current distribution system for fishing rights in a bid to expand production. The plan was included in the agency’s draft fisheries policy reform proposals submitted to a joint meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Fisheries Division and the Research Commission on...
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion Carmelo Abela marked International Africa Day which commemorates the 1963 launch of the Organisation of African Unity, known as the African Union, by means of a visit to AquaBioTech. AquaBioTech is a Malta-based aquaculture company comprising 50 local and international specialist staff engaged in various projects, including a sustainable water recirculating system for...
An Innovative new device which coverts wave energy to power is to be trialled on a salmon farm in Shetland in a bid to make the aquaculture industry greener. Scottish Sea Farms said it would use the MANTA converter at its Teisti Geo farm in Clift Sound, between Burra and the south mainland, after receiving planning permission from Shetland Islands...
Facility hopes to reduce the country's excessive reliance on imports Fishing is an old and time-honoured UAE tradition. Once Emiratis used to live by fishing, but with the discovery of oil, the traditional industry took a back seat. Today, the UAE imports a large portion of its growing demand for seafood. However, leading the charge to reverse this trend is...
As sunrise paints the lower Delaware Bay's intertidal zone, the mudflats take on a metallic shimmer near Cape May, N.J. As visual poetry, it's arresting. But the tide is out — and the clock is ticking. The receding water has revealed Sweet Amalia Oysters, so oyster farmer Lisa Calvo and her team get to work. The team hoists plastic mesh...
The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed reducing the land for salt farming in Cần Giờ District by one-third by 2030 and increasing the land for aquaculture farming. Under the plan, the area of salt production would be reduced from 2,172 hectares to 850 hectares by 2025, and to 644 hectares by 2030. These areas eligible...
