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North?s fish-farmers seek expansion
2008-04-27 00:00:00 Government policy and guidelines are thwarting expansion of fish farming in North ern Ontario - a business that could help revive struggling rural and single-industry towns, aquaculture insiders say. The Northern Ontario Aquaculture Association says there is "excellent potential'' for slow, carefully planned expansion of the industry in Northern Ontario despite the ... More About: Fish , Seek , Expansion , Farmers
Salmon eggs successfully hatched in Vietnam
2008-04-27 00:00:00 Staff of the Aquaculture Research Institute No 3 has successfully hatched salmon eggs in Tuyen Lam lake, Da Lat city, Lam Dong province. After a week, up to 90% of the 250,000 salmon eggs imported from Finland have hatched out. This kind of salmon naturally live in coldwater in northern Europe ... More About: Vietnam , Eggs
Recirculating Aquaculture
2008-04-27 00:00:00 Recirculating Aquaculture is the title of the book that replaces a previous book entitled: Recirculating Aquaculture Systems which is now out of print. The original textbook was used as the primary resource for the Cornell University Short course which started in 1994 and an undergraduate course on recirculating aquaculture principles ...
Indiana-Based Bell Aquaculture Announces Company Launch, Featuring the Nati
2008-03-17 00:00:00 Bell Aquaculture has begun operation of the nation?s largest yellow perch farm. The announcement is made by Michael Miller, President & COO, who says the company?s first aquaculture farm is located in Albany, Indiana , northeast of Indianapolis about 10 miles outside of Muncie. The Albany facility currently has the production ... More About: Company , Launch , Bell
Recirculating Aquaculture
2008-03-12 00:00:00 Recirculating Aquaculture is the title of the book that replaces a previous book entitled: Recirculating Aquaculture Systems which is now out of print. The original textbook was used as the primary resource for the Cornell University Short course which started in 1994 and an undergraduate course on recirculating aquaculture principles ...
Bell Aquaculture Operating Yellow Perch Farm
2008-03-12 00:00:00 Bell Aquaculture near Muncie has begun operating a yellow perch farm that is projected to yield up to 100,000 pounds of fish per year. At full capacity, the facility in Albany could produce 9 million pounds annually and employ 70 people. The first fish, which take about 10 months to reach ... More About: Yellow , Bell , Farm , Operating
Cod is dead ? now let?s get rid of fish-farm blight
2008-03-12 00:00:00 I'D BE lying if I said that I was sorry to see Johnson Seafarms in Shetland going down the tube. More like "I told you so". My first reaction, when I heard of the launch of its "No Catch" farmed cod three years ago, was sadness. Here we go again, ... More About: Fish , Dead , Farm
Brilliant Blue: New Aquaculture Feed Presented to Conference
2008-03-12 00:00:00 A NEW shrimp larvae feed, developed by a Norwegian aquaculture feed company, has been presented to an international aquaculture feed, ingredient and fish farming audience at VICTAM Asia 2008 in Bangkok. The company, Blue Limit AS, is a spin-off from Nofima (formerly Fiskeriforsning) in Bergen. The new feed, Brilliant Blue, generated "significant ... More About: Feed , Conference , Aquaculture
Recirculating Aquaculture System for Growing Black Sea Bass
2008-03-12 00:00:00 After two separate culture trials over a period of four years at the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service lab in Milford, Conn., fisheries biologists found that sea bass can be grown from larvae to adults in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), eating a diet of commercial pellet feeds. ?Black sea bass ... More About: System , Black Sea , Bass , Growing
Salmon eggs successfully hatched in Vietnam
2008-03-12 00:00:00 Staff of the Aquaculture Research Institute No 3 has successfully hatched salmon eggs in Tuyen Lam lake, Da Lat city, Lam Dong province. After a week, up to 90% of the 250,000 salmon eggs imported from Finland have hatched out. This kind of salmon naturally live in coldwater in northern Europe ... More About: Vietnam , Eggs
New Zealand Seafood Aiming for Sustainability
2008-03-08 00:00:00 New Zealand seafood is a high value export that is in demand worldwide. The fishing industry?s sustainability credentials are based on an internationally regarded quota management system, and our marine farmers have ambitious growth plans. But where to from here?as pressures increase to reduce carbon emissions, wild fish stocks are ... More About: New Zealand , Seafood , Sustainability
Pangasius Aquaculture Dialogue meeting set for March in Vietnam
2008-03-08 00:00:00 DEVELOPING criteria and indicators that will be the framework for pangasius aquaculture standards will be the focal point of the Pangasius Aquaculture Dialogue meeting in Can Tho City, Vietnam March 27-28. Meeting participants will also review existing research related to pangasius aquaculture and identify research gaps that need to be addressed ...
Shrimp farm goes full blast with expansion
2008-03-08 00:00:00 Saipan SyAqua Aquaculture hopes to increase production of shrimp by 200 percent with the expansion of its shrimp growing facility in China Town. Operations manager Rommel G. Catalma said the local shrimp farm will expand two-fold with the addition of 32,000 square feet of watered area being constructed next door to ... More About: Shrimp , Full , Blast , Farm , Expansion
TADC targets tenfold rise in fish production under ECER
2008-03-07 00:00:00 Terengganu Agrotech Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (TADC) is targeting a tenfold increase in fish farming production to 2,000 tonnes per annum by year-end from the current 200 tonnes, as part of the East Coast Economic Region?s (ECER) thrust to promote aquaculture in Lake Kenyir. TADC executive director Adnan Ghazali said this ... More About: Fish , Production , Rise
Tuna Breakthrough: helping aquaculture
2008-03-07 00:00:00 Aquaculture company Clean Seas Tuna says it has created a world-first by successfully breeding southern bluefish tuna at its facility on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The company said the successful collection of significant quantities of tuna sperm and eggs, spawned by captive fish in a breeding facility at Arno Bay, would ... More About: Aquaculture
Fish Farming Conference: Wisconsin Aquaculture
2008-03-07 00:00:00 A Wisconsin aquaculture conference titled ?Wisconsin Aquaculture : Meeting Global Challenges Locally? will be held March 14-15 at the Holiday Inn in Manitowoc. The annual event attracts current and prospective fish farmers with an interest in finding their niche in today?s markets. The event also draws researchers, veterinarians, experts and the ... More About: Fish , Farming , Conference
Cleaner salmon
2008-02-06 00:00:00 A Virginia company has acquired majority ownership of a Southern West Virginia fish farm, and it has announced it is switching the fish from arctic char to salmon and trout. The West Virginia spring water at the farm runs from an old coal mine. It will allow them to farm ... More About: Cleaner
Marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines
2008-02-06 00:00:00 The Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) is pleased to announce the first in-country marine fish hatchery training course for the Philippines . This training course is fully funded by the Australia Centre for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR) and is being undertaken in cooperation with the Southeast Asian Fish eries Development Center's ... More About: Training , Marine
N.C. researchers working to raise ocean fish in tanks
2008-02-06 00:00:00 Chef John Howell recently listed fresh black sea bass as one of the specials at the Bridge Tender restaurant in resort town on the North Carolina shore. He stuffed it with crab, topped it with salsa. ?We sold out of them in two nights,? Howell said. ?It was sweet.? But ... More About: Fish , Ocean , Working
New technology may bring aquaculture to new territory
2008-02-04 00:00:00 Seafood could start moving from coasts to cow pastures, and it won't be crawling on any vestigial limbs; scientists have found ways to grow the ocean's bounty on dry land. Now they have to make it turn a profit. Cutting-edge research at Mote Marine Laboratory's Center for Aquaculture Research is making ... More About: Technology , Territory
FAO warns of ?alarming? loss of mangroves
2008-02-04 00:00:00 Mangrove swamps have shrunk by an "alarming" rate though their disappearance is slowing with improved awareness of their importance to biodiversity, the UN food agency said on Thursday."The world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of ... More About: Loss , Mangroves , Armin
Endless opportunities seen for wild fish products
2008-01-15 00:00:00 Aquaculture, which includes fish farming, will dominate the future world seafood industry, but there will be increased opportunities for wild products in the upper end of the market, a professor of economics says. The forecast for increased demand for seafood is good for Alaska, but fishermen must remember they are competing ... More About: Products , Fish , Wild , Opportunities , Endless
Aquaculture farming increasing
2008-01-13 00:00:00 Aquaculture is on the rise in the local rural areas in an attempt by farmers to diversify and replace crops that were once more in demand. If not already in operation, many interests in these aquacultural farms are being mulled over in farmers? minds in Beaufort, Martin, Washington and Hyde counties. Anyone ... More About: Farming , Aquaculture , Armin
Fisheries center opens door to investors
2008-01-13 00:00:00 The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisher ies Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Iloilo province has opened its doors to businessmen considering investments in aquaculture under an agree-build-operate-transfer (ABOT) scheme.. The SEAFDEC said private investors could choose among eight hatchery-nursery technology packages and another eight grow-out technology packages. In general, investments in aquaculture ... More About: Investors , Door
Aquaculture operators seek funding to improve bio-security infrastructure
2008-01-13 00:00:00 It might be a long walk on a short wharf for aquaculture operators on the south coast seeking provincial help to build infrastructure to help prevent the spread of disease in farmed fish. That is, at least, until there's a national aquaculture policy framework in place. Correspondence obtained by Transcontinental Media under ... More About: Security , Infrastructure , Funding , Operators , Improve
Law boosts aquaculture in Delaware Bay
2008-01-13 00:00:00 Changes to an outdated state law could open up new opportunities for shellfishermen in the Delaware Bay. Gov. Jon S. Corzine's signature is all that is required to create four new aquaculture development zones, where shellfishermen can raise various shellfish through aquaculture methods that have proven successful in other parts of ... More About: Aquaculture , Aware
Aquaculture attracts sharks?
2007-12-29 00:00:00 Concerned that fish farms attract sharks at Port Neill, the local progress association is likely to make a submission against proposed farms near the town?s beaches. A draft aquaculture zone policy, which establishes one aquaculture zone and one aquaculture exclusion zone for Port Neill, has been released for two months? of ... More About: Aquaculture
Viet Nam becomes one of top ten seafood exporters in world
2007-12-28 00:00:00 With annual turnover expected this year of US$3.75 billion, up almost 12 per cent over 2006, Viet Nam has emerged as one of the world?s top ten seafood exporters. The industry is also nation?s fourth largest hard currency earner, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The sector was also ... More About: World , Seafood
Greek Selonda Aquaculture executes 40 mln eur credit facility for acquisiti
2007-12-28 00:00:00 Greek fish farmer Selonda Aquaculture announced it executed a 40 mln eur syndicated credit facility for a ten-year term to fund acquisitions in Greece and abroad as well as to provide operating capital. The arrangers of the facility on Dec 20 were Bank of Piraeus, National Bank of Greece (nyse: NBG ... More About: Credit , Greek
The future of Canadian seafood lies in aquaculture
More articles from this author:2007-12-25 00:00:00 According to a press release from the bank, Glitnir, a globally leading supplier of financial services to the seafood industry, released its new report on Canada's seafood industry last week. The report provides an analytical overview of the current main trends and developments in the Canadian seafood industry. Some excerpts from ... More About: Future , Seafood , The Future , Lies 1, 2, 3 |
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