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Waycobah Aquaculture nets $1m ACOA contribution
Date
June 5, 2018
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...
Theft ruining the hopes of aquaculture in Africa
Date
June 5, 2018
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...
St. John’s to host giant aquaculture conference in 2020 in Canada
Date
June 5, 2018
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...
Macquarie Harbour salmon: 1.35 million fish deaths prompt call to ’empty’ waterway of farms
Date
May 31, 2018
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...
Japan to allow more firms to enter aquaculture biz
Date
May 31, 2018
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...
Marking Africa Day: local company engaged in aquaculture projects in Africa
Date
May 31, 2018
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’s bid to harvest marine energy
Date
May 31, 2018
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...
UAE’s only shrimp farm casts a wide net
Date
May 29, 2018
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...
On East Coast Oyster Farms, ‘Women Are Rising Up From The Bay In A Big Way’
Date
May 29, 2018
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...