Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries explains the Commission’s support for EU aquaculture and supporting farmers in the water 40 years ago, the famous French Commandant Jacques-Yves Cousteau stated: “We must plan the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters.” His vision is now becoming reality: in 2014, for the...
The AAA Ranch east of Cedar Vale is as landlocked as any other Kansas farm. The Sunflower Shrimp Farm is a tidy little acreage near Oxford with no ocean in sight. But no cows, pigs or chickens roam these spreads. Instead, their crop is seafood. The AAA produces between 500 and 700 pounds of tilapia a week, raised without antibiotics...
Pesticides from farms and cane fields washing into Queensland’s six main river systems could severely damage the state's $80 million prawn industry, according to CSIRO research. Pesticide run-off from farms was affecting crustaceans' nervous systems and, in Bribie Island laboratory tests from 2017, tiger prawn larvae exposed to the level of pesticides found in the waterways would die. CSIRO investigates...
MSD Animal Health (known as Merck Animal Health in the United States and Canada) is proud to announce its sponsorship of the 2018 High Quality Tilapia Science Award in support of research in tilapia health, production and welfare. The company will award one recent graduate in veterinary or animal science with the opportunity to present their research to an impressive...
Thousands of years ago, pre-Inca cultures, the first consumers of marine species, settled on the coasts of Peru. As time passed by, they made fishing a more responsible and sustainable activity, turning Peru into one of the leading countries worldwide in the fishing and aquaculture industry. Peru's seafood exports reached US$ 1.069 billion during 2017, while aquaculture accounted for US$...
More than two years ago, Đặng Thanh Tân, a farmer in Bình Minh Town, northern Ninh Bình Province decided to switch from breeding shrimp in traditional ponds to high-tech farming. Over the course of the same breeding period, the new technique brings about higher shrimp productivity and quality than the traditional method. By the end of 2015, after studying shrimp...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has targeted to earn US$2 billion from catfish exports this year, accounting for 31.5 per cent of the fishery industry’s total export value. This projection was stated by Nguyen Ngoc Oai, Acting General Director of the Directorate of Fisheries, at a conference to carry out tasks within the industry held in Can Tho...
Principal fisheries officer Shailendra Singh told members of the visiting Agricultural Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) delegation that the Fijian Government has placed a lot of emphasis on aquaculture. "You might ask why because Fiji is so blessed with so much natural resources; we've got the third largest reef system in the world, the Great Sea Reef, then why...
The commercial farming of fish or shellfish – is not a term that’s in everyday use in Scotland, but it is a sector with an economic value approaching £2 billion. The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) in Stirling has ambitions to grow that further in terms of production, exports, revenue and job creation. SAIC’s work connecting the industry and academia...
Championing sustainable farming practice, U.S.-based Aquabanq, Inc. is accelerating its plans for the land-based salmon production facility in the U.S. by at least 12 months. Current plans include the construction of an industrial-scale RAS-based plant capable of producing 10m pounds (5,000 metric tons) of head-on/gutted Atlantic salmon by 2022. Five additional RAS units will be added to double the production...
Company aims to grow stripers eight miles offshore Twenty percent of the protein consumed in the United States is from seafood, “and according to the United Nations, the U.S. will need to double its aquaculture production just to maintain its current level of consumption by 2030,” said Donna Lanzetta of Manna Fish Farms in East Quogue, whose company aims to...
Fish farm opponents and proponents alike are waiting with bated breath as a bill to phase out open net pen aquaculture farms in Washington State sits on Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for final approval. If Governor Inslee signs the bill, it would mean the end of farmed Atlantic salmon reared in open net pens in every jurisdiction on the West...
