County commissioners are concerned about being cut out of decisionmaking regarding the oyster and clam leases earmarked for Alligator Harbor and Ockolockonee Bay. Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet are poised to approve a major expansion of aquaculture leases in the easternmost waters off the Franklin County coast. If they […]
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Slack US demand, higher Vannamei supplies in India and other countries to keep prices under check. The drop in global shrimp prices seems to be a cause of worry for the Indian aquaculture sector, even as the country’s seafood exports witnessing a 20 per cent growth in the first three […]
More farmed salmon have been found at a Newfoundland aquaculture site with infectious salmon anemia (ISA). ISA is a finfish disease that has to be reported by law in Canada, but the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it poses no risk to humans. The Newfoundland and Labrador government has […]
Iceland will help to develop the fisheries and aquaculture sector in the African state of Liberia, Front Page Africa Online reports. Iceland will provide technical assistance for capacity building of the national fisheries and aquaculture staff, as well as ensure the improvement of smoking ovens. It will also provide support […]
‘L. vannamei hatcheries will be in the comfort zone soon’ The decision to set up a world-class Aquatic Quarantine Facility and Brood-stock Multiplication Centre at Bangarammapeta in Nakkapalli mandal at a cost of ₹68 crore has brought cheer to aqua farmers of the State. Andhra Pradesh being a major hub […]
Aqua-Spark, based in the Netherlands, invests in small and mid-size sustainable fishing ventures, including frozen meals company Love the Wild, feedstock venture Calysta, and others. The firm’s co-founders are backing Hatch, a Bergen, Norway-based accelerator program, to cultivate investable startups. Hatch says it is the first accelerator specifically for aquaculture. […]
1. We’re giving Cooke Aquaculture a free research chair Perennia Food & Agriculture Inc., which is the nonprofit funded by the province and housed at the Bestest Nova Scotian Evah! Ray Ivany campus on the Nova Scotia Community College and which shills for the food industry, has issued a Request […]
As Washington shuts down net-pen salmon farms, a Norwegian entrepreneur is building a massive onshore salmon farming operation — in tropical Florida. “It is pretty crazy,” the serial salmon entrepreneur says. What was once a sprawling tomato field near the Miami suburb of Homestead is being turned over in stages […]
Nigeria fisheries sector is bedeviled with lots of challenges, one of which is adopting new methods of fish management. However, this will be a thing of the past with the development of Worldfish Research Programme in Nigeria, JOHN OBA, writes. The fisheries and aquaculture subsector across the world is said […]
Fish farmers here said that they need local and low-cost feeds to battle high aquaculture production costs, as feeds alone take about 60 percent of the cost. This is a long standing call of fish farmers or pond technicians who use the fish diet produced by the Southeast Asian Fisheries […]