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Irish food and drink exports have passed 9 billion for the first time and the country has seen its food exports to Asia rise by 75 per cent since 2010, according to a new report from Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board.

Little attention has been paid to the use of antibiotics in the aquaculture industry and to the spread of bacteria that are resistance to antibiotics. Since the antibiotics that are used in veterinary medicine and aquaculture belong to the same group of antibi…

This report collates the currently available evidence on marine fisheries and reviews its completeness and robustness using a gap analysis for future decision making and support development of the Marine Management Organisations fisheries evidence programme.

The Asian region is a major supplier of fish products to the EU market. Over the period 2005-2010 in particular, the aquaculture sector in some Asian countries became an important producer as well as exporter of whitefish and shrimps. This article provides a s…

In line with the Harvest Strategy Standard for New Zealand Fisheries, this document, from the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries, summarises the status of New Zealands fish stocks. The report finds that hoki and orange roughy have continued to increase…

Lethargic Crab Disease (LCD) has caused significant mortalities in the population of Ucides cordatus crabs in the Mucuri estuary in Bahia State, Brazil, and has brought social and economic problems to many crabharvesting communities that depend on this natural…

Jun Qiang, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, and Hong Yanga look at the interacting effects of water temperature and dietary protein levels on hematological parameters in Nile tilapia juveniles and mortality under Streptococcus iniae infection.

In the present report, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur, identifies the challenges facing global fisheries and examines how the individuals most vulnerable to negative impacts (the residents of developing coastal and island countries, especially low …

The Asian region is a major supplier of fish products to the EU market. Over the period 2005-2010 in particular, the aquaculture sector in some Asian countries became an important producer as well as exporter of whitefish and shrimps.This article provides a su…

As part of the Chichester Harbour Oyster Partnership Initiative, this article by Lawrence Eagling and Antony Jensen, University of Southampton, analyses the reproductive success of oysters in Chichester Harbour, UK.

This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on mycobacterial infections of fish.

This report by authors from the University of Sterling and Hendrix-Genetics looks at the hepatic transcriptome analysis of inter-family variability in flesh n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid content in Atlantic salmon.

Teagasc researchers are looking to seaweed for proteins with health benefits for use as functional foods. Historically, edible seaweeds were consumed by coastal communities across the world and today seaweed is a habitual diet in many countries, particularly i…

Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue crabs and is of growing concern to aquaculture ope…

Meiotic maps are a key tool for comparative genomics and association mapping studies. Meredith V. Everett, James E Seeb, University of Washington, and Michael R Miller, University of Oregon, look at the development of meiotic maps of sockeye salmon which are d…

This report by Silje Brenna-Hansen et al, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, looks at the chromosomal differences between European and North American Atlantic salmon discovered by linkage mapping and supported by fluorescence in situ hybridisation analysis…

This section of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011 report provides an overview of supplies, overseas trade and marketing of the UK fishing industry in 2011.

This thesis from S. Soares and M Green et al from the University of Stirling looks at creating a baseline method for benchmarking mortality losses in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) production.

This article by Peggy Reed, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Ruth Ellen Klinger, and Denise Petty, from the University of Florida, looks at monogenean parasites of fish. Monogeneans are a class of parasitic flatworms that are commonly found on fishes and lower aquatic inve…

The amount of time before the fish is bled is more important than the choice of bleeding method. This is among the conclusions of the Nofima scientists who have carried out experiments involving bleeding methods and the impact of the time interval from capture…

This section of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011 report provides an overview of the UK fishing industry landings in 2011.

This study, by A. Sanseverino, D. Bastviken, I. Sundh, J. Pickova and A. Enrich-Prast, demonstrates the presence of specific fatty acids synthesized by methane oxidizing bacteria in fish tissues having low carbon stable isotope ratios by analysing fatty acids …

This report led by Saraya Tavornpanich, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, looks at the spatial determinants of pancreas disease in the marine phase of Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming sites, and maps the disease risk areas.

In 2011, Viet Nam exported almost US$380 million worth of tuna, up 29.4 per cent over 2010, to 87 countries and territories. Growing demand in the world market has prompted the industry to consider ranching this high value fish, writes Tran Duy for Vietfish In…

This report by Tiago S Hor et al, Memorial University of Newfoundland, looks at how a moderate increase in ambient temperature modulates the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) spleen transcriptome response to intraperitoneal viral mimic injection.

This section of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011 report provides an overview of the structure and activity of the UK fishing industry in 2011.

This article by authors from the University of Padova, Italy, looks at the first evidence of immunomodulation in bivalves under seawater acidification and increased temperature.

This section of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011 report provides an overview of the UK fishing industry in 2011.

This publication by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a preliminary report for 2011 on commercial fisheries and a final report for recreational fisheries of the United States with landings from the US territorial seas, the US Exclusive …

This article consolidates the findings of a report by the FAO which looked at the reduction of dependence on the utilisation of low-value fish as feed for aquaculture of marine finfish in the Asian Region.

Leuven scientists are using zebrafish as a model in their search for genes that play a role in the mechanism of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). As a result, they have identified a molecule that could be the target for a future ALS treatment.

This article by Nathan K Lujan et al, Texas A&M University, looks at trophic diversity in the evolution and community assembly of South American loricariid catfishes.

The average UK adult is eating more fish than a generation ago. Trend data from the National Food Survey (NFS) and Expenditure and Food Survey (EFS) show how per-head consumption of fish is now around two per cent higher than in 1975, according to a report com…

Overfishing in Europe is a huge economic and environmental problem. It is also eminently solvable by fishing less for a short period of time we can rebuild fish stocks permanently. Research by the New Economics Foundation quantifies the short-term costs of res…

This section of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011 report provides an overview of the world fishing industry in 2011.

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming Scalloped spiny lobster.

There has been increasing reports of tropical species in southern waters, indicating that pelagic fish distributions may be expanding south, according to Alistair Hobday, author of the Pelagic fish section of the Marine Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation R…

'The UK Fishing Industry in 2011: Landings' provides a comprehensive overview of the quantity and value of species landed by UK and foreign vessels into the UK and by UK vessels abroad. This new annual release provides users with advance access to information …

In a study led by R. Robles, Centro Tecnolgico de la Acui, Spain, the performance of gilthead sea bream juveniles fed diets with no fishmeal was compared to that of bream fed diets with 30 or 10 per cent fishmeal. Taken from the Global Aquaculture Advocate (Se…

This guide from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme provides information on farming red claw crayfish.