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Aquaculture proponents view the ocean off Southern California as an ideal place for an emerging industry. The key, new research found, will be to carefully locate facilities to minimize environmental risks and conflicts with other marine uses. In the clear waters 10km (6 miles) from Huntington Beach, California, a 40-hectare […]

“My philosophy around year 11, 12 education is we have 70 weeks to re-engage some seriously disengaged students so they can become productive members of society and the workforce.” That’s Steve Harrison, one of 12 teachers who’ve won a $45,000 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Award run by Australian Schools Plus – […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]