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This article from the FAO's 'The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012 Report' looks at the acceptance of women in aquaculture and the promotion of women in aquaculture to help develop education, training and economic prospects.

Due to the build up of bacteria and viruses in bivalves from filter-feeding, bivalves can be harmful to humans when ingested. The different factors affecting the microbial quality of shellfish is therefore analysed in a study by Carlos Campos, Ron Lee, Simon K…

The Ministry for Primary Industries has published the Governments Aquaculture Strategy and Five-year Action Plan. The plan sets out the government pathway to facilitate the sustainable growth of New Zealands aquaculture sector, working to enable the sector to …

Strong supply growth of farmed salmon in 2012 and firm underlying demand should bring stability to this market thanks to attractive prices, according to the FAO Global Food Outloook.

In the last in a series ofarticles, Mike Montgomerie,Gear Technologist at Seafish, discusses the use of flexibleand rigid grids. With the increasingimportance of social, economicand political factors as a bigpart of the issue Seafish geartrial work over the la…

Aquaculture provides the world with about 53 million tons of fish each year and over seven per cent of the animal protein people consume. It includes carp, Tilapia (a freshwater fish found in Africa), Pangasius (a Mekong Delta catfish), Atlantic Salmon, other …

With sea lice being a major challenge for the salmon industry, at Aquaculture Europe 2011, Herve Migaud from the University of Stirling looked at what factors are limiting wrasse production. Charlotte Johnston, TheFishSite editor reports.

Higher public awareness of sustainable fishing practices, led by environmental NGOs, may have helped reduce the incidence of mislabelled fish in the UK, compared to Ireland, according to a recent study which assessed levels of fish fraudulently sold as cod in …

The 30 September Grain Stocks report issued by USDAs National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) showed sharply higher-than-expected 1 September stocks for corn.