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Welcome to this week's newsletter
We have 2 new features this week:
Sustainable growth and expansion of aquaculture: an ecosystem approach
By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and extracted from The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006
The Future of Salmon Aquaculture in North America
By Gunnar Knapp, Cathy A. Roheim, James L. Anderson and extracted from The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC
 United Kingdom
Fish Welfare Report deliberately misleads public
UK - Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) have been accused of deliberately misleading public following publication of a new report today.
New report challenges welfare of fish farming
UK - As the fish farming industry gathers in Edinburgh for the
Aquaculture Today conference (17 – 19 April) a new report from Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) challenges the welfare standards within the aquaculture industry.
 Australia
Bribie to house $4m aquarium
AUSTRALIA - The Queensland Government will pour $4 million into a new state-of-the-art fish tank and research aquarium at Bribie Island.
Exchange rate impacts on seafood exporters
AUSTRALIA - The Australian dollar's 17-year high is hurting Tasmanian seafood exporters.
SA fishers urge support for inland aqua farms
AUSTRALIA - A group of South Australian fish farmers has called on the State Government to recognise the potential of their emerging industry.
 Thailand
Making prawns more profitable
BANGKOK - Making prawns more profitable by reducing the frequency of females is the key to a business plan that young local entrepreneurs are ready to take onto the world stage
 Canada
MP working on a bill to ban all Northwest fish farms
CANADA - MP Nathan Cullen says that he is taking it upon himself to try and put an end to the controversial fish farm debate throughout the Northwest.
 Philippines
What's in store for RP bangus industry?
PHILIPPINES - Sleek and silvery, beloved because of its mild, sweet flesh, and its melt-in the-mouth belly fat, bangus or milk fish is a favorite Philippine fish, not to mention that is also the country's national fish.
Samar mussel industry developing
PHILIPPINES - Tahong and Mariculture godfather GiL Adora graced the First Samar Mussel Industry Development Forum at the Cocina de Cabral today.
Giant fresh water prawn opens opportunities in aquaculture industry
PHILIPPINES - The giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium Rosenbergii) locally known as "Ulang," the most promising aquaculture specie in the country at present, is being produced in the Bicol region.
Mariculture Park Planned for Balingasag, Misamis Oriental
PHILIPPINES - After identifying coconut sugar as its One-Town, One Product (OTOP) with the help of the Department of Trade and Industry, this municipality has also turned its development focus seaward with the proposed establishment of Northern Mindanao's first mariculture park, this time with the assistance of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
 United States
Executives to Discuss Eco-friendly Solutions for Sustainable Aquaculture
US - World aquaculture production has been projected to grow from 45% to over 70% of world seafood consumption within the next 20 years. With fisheries stocks declining and world population increasing, the pressure on wild stocks, and particularly baitfish stocks, will increase dramatically.
Center to target salmon research
FRANKLIN - Sterilized blue tanks of varying sizes sat empty Tuesday inside the new National Coldwater Marine Aquaculture Center in Franklin, but they won’t be empty much longer.
Cheyney plunges into aquaculture
US - "This is the humidor," Michael Derro says with a grin, as he cracks open a door in the back corner of the greenhouse.
From fish to dish
US - Aquaculture is a $50 million industry in North Carolina that has been growing 9 percent to 15 percent a year for the past decade, said Tom Losordo, a biological engineering professor at N.C. State University. But most farmed fish are freshwater species.
Effort to Raise Juvenile Halibut On Land Successful
FRANKLIN - University of Maine researchers have successfully hatched and reared juvenile Atlantic halibut.
Hog Barn Converted to Aquaculture Facility
US - Just breaking the surface, thousands of mouths gape open in a swarm of golden-orange bodies, fins flashing and tails colliding into each other. Looking at the six tanks filled with 72,000 gallons of water and more than 150,000 goldfish, it’s hard to believe just a few years ago the building was a hog nursery.
Shrimpers in Kentucky? Sounds like a fish tale
KENTUCKY - Some 125 Kentucky farmers raise fish or prawns, according to Angela Caporelli, aquaculture coordinator at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. While that's just a fraction of Kentucky's 84,000 farms, the fact that the state even has an aquaculture coordinator surprises many.
Administration calls for moratorium on U.S. fish farming
US - Gov. Sarah Palin is calling for provisions in the federal Aquaculture Act to prevent potential damage to Alaska's fisheries.
Shellfish Aquaculture Planning Project Underway
US - A collaborative effort is being made to explore shellfish aquaculture development in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Kahrs family accepts distinguished service award
OSAGE BEACH - The Kahrs family says they are humbled and honored to have been the guests of the University of Missouri-Columbia's College of Agriculture on behalf of the late Jim Kahrs, who built Osage Catfisheries, Inc.
Federal hatchery raises a mountain of trout
US - In Arkansas, they coddle a lot of trout. In one federal hatchery alone, 1.3 million, or 500,000 pounds, of trout are reared each year.
 South Africa
Fishing industry not foundering yet, says minister
CAPE TOWN - There is plenty of hope for the future of the fishing industry under certain conditions, despite suggestions to the contrary, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday.
 Norway
Increasing value of exported seafood
NORWAY - The export value of Norwegian seafood reached NOK 9.8 billion in the first quarter, an increase by NOK 1.4 billion - or 16.5 per cent compared with the same periode last year.
More research on live storage of caught cod
NORWAY - Cod achieves a 30-40 % higher price when it is brought to land live, yet little fish is delivered live. A new international project can explain why.
 Viet Nam
Additional seafood companies allowed to export to EU
VIET NAM - The EU has officially added 37 Vietnamese seafood companies to the list of companies allowed to export products to the market, raising the number of approved companies to 245.
Vietnam battles infection in shrimp
VIETNAM - Thua Thien Hue province reported that shrimp in over 30 ha of farms had died en mass.
 India
Bharuch prawn-hatchery nearing completion
INDIA - A project to develop a fresh water prawn seed hatchery at Umarwada in Bharuch district is yet to start functioning although the infrastructure setup is nearly ready. The project is financially and technically supported by French government under the Indo-French Financial Protocol 1996.
 Yemen
Spanish AFF Minister to visit Yemen
SANA'A - Minister of Fisheries Mahmud Saghiri met with the Spanish ambassador to Sana'a Marcos Vega and
discussed with him arrangements for the visit of the Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Elena Espinosa to Yemen
in June.
 Iran, Islamic Republic of
Shrimp Sent Back From Europe
IRAN - More than 6,000 tons of shrimp bound for EU-member states were sent back to the country due to discrepancy in export documents.
 Nigeria
Fish Production Attracts N7.5 Billion Investment
NIGERIA - About N7.58 billion has been invested in the Fisheries sub-sector in Nigeria as at 2006, according to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
 Brunei Darussalam
Minister Visits Tutong Prawn Farms
BRUNEI - The Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources (MIPR) yesterday made a working visit to prawn farming sites in Tutong District. Leading the delegation was Minister of Industry and Primary Resources, Pehin Orang Kaya Setia Pahlawan Date Seri Setia Dr Awang Haji Ahmad bin Haji Jumat.
That's all for this week!
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