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Welcome to this week's newsletter
We have 2 new features this week:
Catfish Genome's Key to Higher Quality, Profits
By the USDA's Agricultural Research Service - Channel catfish is the leading U.S. aquaculture species, with about 600 million pounds processed annually.
International Principles for Responsible Shrimp Farming
Shrimp farming is one of the fastest growing aquaculture sectors in many parts of the world and also one of the most controversial. Rapid expansion of this sector generated income for many countries, but has been accompanied by rising concerns over environmental and social impacts.
 Romania
Romanian technologists microchip 100,000 young beluga
Over 50% is Romania and Bulgaria’s freshwater aquaculture.
 Viet Nam
Oil slick abates in Da Nang, Quang Nam, soils Hue
After blackening beaches and hurting tourism in Da Nang city and Quang Nam province, an oil spill detected last week off central Vietnam has decimated shrimp farms in Thua Thien Hue province.
Fisheries college trains farm staff
While aquaculture farms have provided millions of jobs and stable income for farmers, the fisheries sector has to focus on developing human resources for sustainably developing the sector, according to experts.
Viet Nam Fisheries Exports up 8% year-on-year
Seafood exports last month increased 8.2 per cent year-on-year to US$192 million, according to the Ministry of Fisheries, due in part to a seasonal rise in demand.
 Oman
Oman to boost US fish exports
MUSCAT - The Gulf state of Oman will make a major bid to boost its fish exports to the United States, now fully exempted from customs duty following last year's FTA between the two countries, by taking part in one of North America's biggest marine products exhibition in Boston next month.
 Kenya
Kenya: Disease Pushes Up Cost of Fish And Chicken
Prices of chicken and fish have skyrocketed in most parts of the country as a result of the Rift Valley Fever.
 India
India: Himachal to popularise fish farming in high altitude areas
SHIMLA - With an aim to popularise fish farming in high altitude areas of the state, the Himachal Pradesh government has imported "Arctic Charr" (salvelinus alpinus) seed from Canada.
EU gets tough on shrimp antibiotic residues
KOCHI - The European Union has taken a tough stance on antibiotic residue in shrimp consignments and has made it clear that it will no longer permit re-export of contaminated consignments. The move comes at a time when EU has emerged as the biggest market for India, accounting for nearly 30% of the exports.
Plans to enhance Indian fish exports
The State Government has set a target to enhance the fish export from the current level of Rs 350 crore to Rs 1000 crore in five years.
Indian Govt. seeks Japan's help to double fish output
BHUBANESWAR - The Government has sought assistance from the Japan Government for development of fisheries sector in the State.
 United States
Large-animal vets are in short supply
Rainbow had the bad luck to try to have a baby on a Thursday. Thursday was her doctor's day off, and there was no one else for miles who could handle a complicated breech birth, not when the mother was a Holstein cow.
Federal law needs to snag renegade imports
Alabama's congressional delegation can serve the state's catfish growers and consumers by snagging support for provisions in a new farm bill aimed at turning up the heat on importers who bring fish from Vietnam and China into the United States.
WSUV reels in grant funds
Two scientists at Washington State University Vancouver have pulled in almost $900,000 in research grants, the university announced last week.
Exemption of fish ponds from licensing fought
MONTANA - Fears that unmanaged fish ponds in the state could be breeding grounds for fish-related diseases prompted testimony against a bill Tuesday in the House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee.
Rebels with redclaws
With their iridescent turquoise color, claws meant for mayhem and a cantankerous disposition, the aquatic product raised at Serge Birk's farm in Tehama County is a one-of-a-kind enterprise in the Golden State.
Supply, demand spike catfish prices in Arkansas
Southerners appreciate the delicacy of a catfish dinner, but until recently, prices were no treat for catfish farmers.
Wild American Shrimp introduces first-ever DNA-based testing for domestic shrimp species
SOUTH CAROLINA - Wild American Shrimp, Inc. (WASI) in collaboration with Applied Food Technologies, LLC, announced the development of DNA-based testing for brown, pink and white domestic shrimp varieties. The test, the first of its kind for shrimp, allows for authentic verification that a product sold as a domestic shrimp product is indeed a domestic shrimp.
Virus infects trout at hatchery
NEW YORK - A virus has been found in trout at the Connetquot River State Park Preserve hatchery, and officials are weighing options for combating it, including killing more than 25,000 fish.
Shellfish farmers seek legislators' help to avoid a "regulatory train wreck"
Shellfish farmers in Washington state headed to Olympia last week to ask state lawmakers to help them avoid a "regulatory train wreck" that has the potential to put many shellfish farms out of business.
 United Kingdom
Fish farmers keep up to date
Rapid changes in fish farming have forced Shetland's aquaculture industry to team up with the local fisheries college to keep up with the developments.
Can fish farming save depleted cod?
Cod, a mainstay food from Britain to Brazil, all but disappeared from Canadian waters in the 1990s after years of overfishing, and scientists say a similar fate awaits the shoals of the North Sea.
Latest EU farm income figures hint at a more prosperous future
Already slightly uplifted by rising farm income levels reported by the agricultural departments, farmers and growers may be able to take some added comfort from figures just released by the European Commission directorate general for agriculture and a British bank.
Fish escapes halved - but salmon farms have 'long way to go'
The number of salmon escaping from Scottish fish farms has halved in the past four years, an industry body will be told today.
Integration sees salmon profits leap
Shetland's largest salmon farming and processing company has had its best financial year ever amassing gross profits of almost £11 million.
'No proof' organic food is better
There is no evidence organic food is better for you than conventional food, minister David Miliband has said.
 Norway
Honour to Fiskeriforskning
Fiskeriforskning has been awarded "The Mølje Award" for 2007. The seafood restaurant Arctandria in Tromsø is behind the award.
Too much food?
Research indicates that farmed cod receive too much food. A study now in progress at Fiskeriforskning shows that cod grow just as well even when the amount of feed is halved.
Stockfish takes time
Drying fish is demanding food production. Several months under the open sky. In all kinds of weather. This is the second article in a series about Norway's oldest export product.
Will salmon quality be changed with freeze thawing?
Will the positive quality characteristics of salmon immediately after slaughtering (pre-rigor), keep during freezing and subsequent thawing? This is what scientists at Fiskeriforskning now want to find out.
 Malaysia
Company in project to breed fish at Kenyir Dam
A Negri Sembilan-based aquaculture trader has responded promptly to a call by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to the private sector to play its role in turning the National High Impact Aquaculture Industry Zone (ZIA) project into a successful venture.
Researchers breed first hybrid Grouper
Researchers at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) have successfully cross-bred two species of grouper (kerapu) to come up with the world's first hybrid of its kind.
Malaysian govt planning pilot project on freshwater fish breeding
The Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Ministry will implement a pilot project on freshwater fish breeding in Pahang, which takes after the Felda scheme concept.
Malaysian state devoted to nurturing fish production industry
Sabah is one of the top fish producing states in Malaysia with exports fetching about RM400 to RM450 million a year writes Arman Gunsika on Borneo Bulletin.
Grouper breeding yields returns
With its thick, large dorsal fin, physically the kerapu or grouper ranks among the “unappealing” marine fish to the public.
 Canada
Taylor Shellfish purchases Canada’s biggest oyster producer
Taylor Shellfish Farms, the largest shellfish company on the West Coast, has purchased Fanny Bay Oysters Ltd., Canada’s biggest shellfish producer.
 Thailand
Thai shrimp exporters fear new health rules in Australia
Thai shrimp farmers have urged the government to speed up negotiations with Australia over its proposed health and safety standard before it comes into effect on February 21.
Thailand to hold talk with Australia over new import rules on shrimp
Thai fishery officials will seek a meeting with the Australian authorities later this month to make clear their reservations about Canberra’s new health rules on imported shrimp.
CPF intensifies efforts to go global
Agriculture conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is making more of an effort to become a global food processing company, the main object of focus being the "farm-to-table" strategy.
 Australia
Greens Bid to Halt Australia's Bluefin Tuna Fishery Defeated
The Howard Government today turned back an attempt by the Australian Greens to close down Australia’s A$200 million southern bluefin tuna industry. The southern bluefin tuna is classed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
That's all for this week!
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