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Seafood exports likely to fall short of 10-billion USD target
Date
July 26, 2018
Vietnamese seafood companies need to work harder to realise the export target of 10 billion USD set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) when oversea shipments in during January-July were estimated at only 4.66 billion USD. The...
Seaweed Research and Production Lab Set for COA
Date
July 26, 2018
The owners of the country’s largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school’s oceanfront campus. Springtide Seaweed’s Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera, who operate...
Aquaculture licence obtained for the remote Legune Station operation
Date
July 26, 2018
Seafarms has achieved a key regulatory approval required to deliver the mammoth Project Sea Dragon, obtaining the aquaculture licence for the Legune Station operation. Project Sea Dragon is a $1.45 billion prawn aquaculture project that will see the development of...
FRP carp hatcheries in 26 states
Date
July 24, 2018
The fifth national training programme on ‘Installation and Operation of Freshwater Aquaculture Production (FRP) Carp Hatchery’ was inaugurated at ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here Tuesday. RK Singh, project coordinator, ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering and...
Fisheries gross output worth RM14 bln last year: MOA
Date
July 24, 2018
The gross value of fisheries output totalled some RM 14 billion last year, with the highest attributed through fish catch, and the remaining shared by aquaculture and land fisheries industries respectively. The fish catch output value recorded at RM11 billion,...
Eco-shrimp farming – model for sustainable aquaculture development
Date
July 24, 2018
Eco-shrimp farming, which has been spreading in the Mekong Delta localities in recent years, is touted as a model for sustainable aquaculture development thanks to its strengths in environmental protection, low costs, and high profit. Eco farming refers to the...
College of Atlantic launches partnership with largest U.S. seaweed farm
Date
July 24, 2018
The owners of the country's largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school's campus. Springtide Seaweed's Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera,...
Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability
Date
July 19, 2018
Shrimp farming is one of the biggest industries in Vietnam, and the government is pushing to expand it, having announced plans last year to boost exports from $3 billion in 2016 to $10 billion by 2025. Shrimp farmer Nguyen Manh...
UAPB grad student says research could improve production of largemouth bass
Date
July 19, 2018
Nathan Egnew, a graduate student of aquaculture/fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, is researching the physiological response of largemouth bass to ammonia. His research could help fish farmers raise and transport the fish to market more efficiently,...