Environment

A new deal which could help to create value from sludge produced by the aquaculture industry has been signed this week.

A new project that aims to improve the productivity, profitability and development outcomes of systems that combine the culture of fish and rice in Mayanmar has been launched by WorldFish today.

An initiative led by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries has succeeded in retrieving from the seabed over 24 km of discarded gill nets and 44 km of ropes that had been lost or abandoned by fisherme…

Calls for stricter licencing laws governing the Irish salmon farming industry have been made after 65 farmed salmon have been caught by in Irish rivers in recent months.

The Norwegian lumpfish, ling and tusk fishery, has been deemed to meet the Marine Stewardship (MSC) sustainability standard.

Gaining Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) accreditation for its rope-grown mussels last week will act as an added incentive for Loch Fyne Oysters (LFO) to achieve its ambitious growth targets, acc…

A collaborative project to improve understanding of the effects of salmon farming on the seabed in high-energy waters is underway in Orkney.

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) aims to have at least 20 percent of the world’s fisheries certified to its sustainability standard by 2020 – up from the current level of 12 percent.

A competition established to inspire the increased use of alternative ingredients to fishmeal in aquafeeds has been lambasted for “the organisers’ use of negative messaging, exaggeration and misinform…

The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) is the world’s first aquaculture certification program to be recognized by the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI).

A Scottish company is the first in the world to obtain the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Bivalve Standard Certification for responsible farming of blue mussels.

Projects to improve the sustainability of small scale fisheries involving crayfish in China, octopus in Senegal, stone crab in Chile, baitfish in Indonesia, and baitfish and tuna in India have been aw…

Following recent claims that culturing salmon in open net pens could become the most sustainable form of healthy protein production on the planet, Dr Bill McGraw assesses the relative merits of differ…

Researchers at SINTEF in Norway have developed a new tool that can provide more effective warnings of the presence of algal blooms.

A new initiative that aims to promote inclusive and sustainable aquaculture in Africa as a means to achieve human development, food and nutrition security has been launched this week.

Atlantic salmon farmed in British Columbia (BC) has been ugraded to the “good alternative” classification by the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program.

The belief that fish farms have an adverse impact on the quality of wild fish caught in their vicinity is largely misplaced, according to a recent study.

Marine technology experts are meeting at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage this week as part of the Oceans ’17 conference, which will include considerable coverage of topics related to ‘blue growth’. …

Farmed salmon has the scope to become the most sustainable source of healthy protein in the world, according to a representative of the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI).

Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have authorized fishing vessels to engage in illegal fishing in West African waters, according to a report released today by Oceana.