Sustainability

The volume of Australian fisheries production varied over the period 200001 to 200910 according to the data produced by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) in its annual Australian fisheries statistics for 2010.

The needfor epidemiological approaches to protect aquatic animal health will inevitably increasein the face of the combined challenges of climate change, increasing anthropogenicpressures, limited water sources and the growth in aquaculture, write Edmund Peele…

Three studies of tuna fishery bycatch have been commissioned by FAO: investigations covering the purse seine, longline and small-scale fisheries. This document presents the results of the work on the small-scale tuna fishery bycatch and the associated issues.

Despite it being well over a year since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, worries about general seafood safety continue to be at a high, reports the Louisiana Sea Grant Programme.

Mycotoxin analysis results for the second quarter of 2011 from Biomin, including more than 2,800 analyses of more than 800 animal feed ingredients. At least one mycotoxin was found in 90 per cent of the samples.

Coho salmon are returning from the ocean to spawn in the Russian River and its tributaries in numbers not seen in a decade, raising a glimmer of hope that a hatchery programme may be helping the endangered species.

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) virus, which has invaded the Great Lakes, is a potential threat in the Western US, according to Jerri Bartholomew, Oregon State University, and Gael Kurath and Evi Emmenegger, USGS Western Fisheries Research Centre.

A combination of climate change and the introduction of farmed salmon into wild populations is shaping regional genetic patterns of Atlantic salmon in northern Spain.

Alan Millar, Principal Research Scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney looks at what macroalgae are and how they benefit the marine envirionment.