Aquaculture News

Public offered chance to tour Cawthron
Nelson Mail
The Cawthron Institute is inviting the Nelson public into a world of suspended animation, cryo-preservation, algal towers and the unseen life of shellfish as it opens the doors to the Glenhaven Aquaculture Centre next Sunday.

FIS
Galicia, pioneer in strategic plan for aquaculture
FIS
The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, announced the approval of the Galician Aquaculture Strategy, a plan "consistent" with the directives of the European Union (EU). This initiative has the objective to attract "viable projects ...

Sea ice off N China disrupts aquaculture
China Daily
SHIJIAZHUANG - Provincial fishery authorities told Xinhua how aquaculture in northern Hebei province has been hit by sea ice since January. Many seashells and sea cucumbers had died from suffocation due to icy conditions in Bohai Sea off Qinghuangdao ...

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Sea Ice off Northern China Disrupts Aquaculture
CRIENGLISH.com
Provincial fishery authorities have told Xinhua how aquaculture in northern Hebei province has been hit by sea ice since January. Many seashells and sea cucumbers had died from suffocation due to icy conditions in Bohai Sea off Qinghuangdao city, ...

Your tax dollars at work: Bond money modernized Yavapai College campuses
Verde Independent
By Lisa Irish Jerry Pfingston, a student at Yavapai College's Agribusiness & Science Technology Center, said 80 percent of what he's learning at the Chino Valley campus is hands-on work with plants and fish in the greenhouse and aquaculture area.

Thanh Nien Daily
Vietnam PM to chair meeting on land revocation scandal
Thanh Nien Daily
Since then the case has drawn a great deal of public attention and criticism from local experts who said the revocation was illegal, given that under Vietnam's Land Law, the right to use aquaculture land is valid for 20 years.

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Tag Team: Salmon Farm Foes Unite!
Pacific Free Press
One of the industry's three Norwegian titans - which together own 92% of BC's salmon farms - Cermaq-Mainstream, is currently suing Staniford for defamation at the BC Supreme Court over his recent campaign comparing salmon aquaculture to Big Tobacco.

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Grigg assertions need to be corrected
Canada.com
27 Courier-Islander, "The Cohen Commission: Following traces", he reports final ISAV arguments submitted to the Cohen Commission by Gregory J. McDade and Lisa Glowacki, counsel for Dr. Alexandra Morton and the Aquaculture Coalition.

Business Today
Riding the rupee stocks
Business Today
Well, both are from the aquaculture sector, and being export-oriented gained from the depreciation of the rupee. "Export-oriented sectors benefit from rupee depreciation. These include software services, pharmaceutical and aquaculture.

Inland fish harvest to be doubled by 2013
Ceylon Daily News
Minister Senaratne said so participating in an inspection tour of the aquaculture centre in Dambulla which is under the purview of the National Aquaculture Development Authority (NAQDA). "All arrangements are in place to develop the inland water fish ...

Southern Fried Science
Aquaculture in North Carolina: White Rock Fish Farm
Southern Fried Science
The more Ted shares, he feels, the more he supports aquaculture development in eastern North Carolina – good both for the local economy and as a means to provide protein for a growing global seafood demand. “We have a great water resource here, ...

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TheChronicleHerald.ca
Eastern Shore salmon farm proposal morally indefensible
TheChronicleHerald.ca
In western Scotland, following the expansion of salmon aquaculture in the sea lochs, wild salmon stocks have been in freefall. Salmon farms have been deliberately kept away from the east coast (where wild stocks are improving).

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Aquaculture Industry Did Well in 2011
TheFishSite.com
NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA - According to the Newfoundland provincial Economic Review 2011, the total aquaculture production in the province was expected to be up 49.7 per cent to approximately 23000 tonnes in 2011. The value of the aquaculture industry ...

SEAFDEC Raises Fish Growth Rates
TheFishSite.com
PHILIPPINES - The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) has succeeded in raising the growth rates of 10 marine fish species to help bail out the fisheries sector from its current slump.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Updates Seafood Watch Criteria, Research Process
PerishableNews (press release)
Seafood Watch will spend the next nine months evaluating sustainable seafood certification schemes including those of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA), Global Good Aquaculture Practices (Global GAP) and ...

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Nova News Now
Appeal of fish farm decision dismissed
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Marian and Herschel Specter, who live on the Shelburne Harbour waterfront, appealed a decision by Sterling Belliveau, the provincial minister of fisheries and aquaculture, to allow changes to three aquaculture licences held by Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd., ...
Judge dismisses aquaculture license challengeNova News Now

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Arkansas' catfish production decreases in 2011
Stuttgart Daily Leader
The price increase may have a stabilizing effect on the catfish industry as farmers consider putting acres back into production, said Carole Engle, director of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's aquaculture program. "Right now, there is still a ...

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FIS
Shipments of frozen fish rise fish exports
FIS
Exports of fishery products and aquaculture in Chile reached in the first 11 months of 2011 a value of USD 4228 million. This represents a rise of 32.1 per cent over the same period in 2010, which amounts to USD 3200 million.

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Sou'Wester
Judge dismisses aquaculture license challenge
Sou'Wester
by Greg Bennett A legal appeal of the licensing of three Shelburne Harbour aquaculture sites has been dismissed by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. Marian and Herschel Specter, of Sandy Point, filed the appeal on June 13. The Specters, who live near one ...

Nova News Now
Judge dismisses aquaculture license challenge
Nova News Now
by Greg Bennett A legal appeal of the licensing of three Shelburne Harbour aquaculture sites has been dismissed by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. Marian and Herschel Specter, of Sandy Point, filed the appeal on June 13. The Specters, who live near one ...

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