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By FAO. Prospects for prices of shrimp, the principal commodity in international fish trade, are rather subdued in 2007, reflecting a weakening of import demand globally.

By Cortney L. Ohs, Assistant Professor, Indian River Research and Education Center, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences and R. LeRoy Creswell, Creswell, Marine Extension Agent, St. Lucie County Cooperative Extension. Published by the University of Flo…

By LaDon Swann, Department of Animal Sciences, IIlinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program , Purdue University. Published by Aquanic. This is the second half of a two part feature. If you would like to view part 1 please go to the link provided at the bottom of the art…

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Korea. A link to the full report is also provided.

This guide from LaDon Swann, IIlinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program, Purdue University, helps fish farmers better understand the properties of water and how water quality effects fish culture.

By Jane Jordan, The FishSite Editor. Glitnir, the leading global supplier of financial services to the seafood industry, has released new reports on the Chinese and Latin American seafood industries. It shows these regions have huge potential on a global scale…

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Norway. A link to the full report is also provided.

By The European Commission. The new Animal Health Strategy provides the framework for animal health and welfare measures over the next six years. Given the devastating impact that serious disease outbreaks can have on farmers, society and the economy, the new …

By Helga Josupeit, FAO, Globefish, INFOFISH Tilapia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, August 2007. World tilapia production has been booming during the last decade, with output doubling from 830000 tonnes in 1990 to 1.6 million tonnes in 1999 and over 2.5 million tonn…

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSite Editor. Compared with other animal transportation, the transport of fish receives very little attention from the science. There have been few studies into the effects transit has to fish welfare, health, biosecurity and overall prod…

Latest USDA FAS report from China plus previously published reports from many other countries.

By Craig MacIntyre and Jimmy Turnbull, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling and published by CEFAS Finfish News - Issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Russia. A link to the full report is also provided.

By Helga Josupeit, FAO Globefish 2007. In 2007, world fishmeal production continued to decline further.

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSite Editor. With reports of a significant escape of farmed salmon in Scotland's West Loch, Roag, hitting the headlines recently, the debate about the potential damage that escaped farmed fish can do to wild stocks has returned with veng…

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Canada. A link to the full report is also provided.

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Chile. A link to the full report is also provided.

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for China covers the 2nd China International (Xiamen) Fisheries Expo 2007.

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Japan. A link to the full report is also provided.

By Edwin H. Robinson and Menghe H. Li.

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSite Editor. If fish farms are operated correctly, then the waste produced can actually benefit and stimulate life on the sea bed. Underwater research by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Norway has shown that aquatic life on Fjo…

By Camillo Catarci, 2007 FAO Globefish. In Europe, by the end of the summer, prices of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) are expected to start softening after the peak levels reached in June and July.

By Michelle Pond, Cefas, presented at the Disease Workshop in Bristol and published in Finfish News publication, Winter/Spring edition, number 3. Cefas. A range of researchers and other stakeholders gathered to discuss what is known about the skin condition of…

By Jane Jordan, Editor, TheFishSite.The development of novel marine finfish production requires reliable and cost effective supplies of juvenile fish. The OPEL project - 'The optimisation of environmental conditions for cultivating marine finfish larvae' - was…

By Michael P. Masser, Auburn University and published by SRAC, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension. In the US the majority of cage culture is practiced in ponds or quarries.

By Robert A. Pierce II, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences;Robert S. Hayward, Associate professor, MU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences; Joe Parcell and Chris Boessen, Missouri Value Added Center, MU Department of Agricultural Economics;…

By Philip Read, Aquaculture Extension Officer, Fish Conservation and Aquaculture, Port Stephens Research Centre. Published by New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Primefact 628.

By Roy P.E. Yanong, Kathleen H. Hartman, Craig A. Watson, Jeffrey E. Hill, B. Denise Petty, and Ruth Francis-Floyd, University of Florida, IFAS Extension.

By Jane Jordan, Editor, TheFishSite. In land-based aquaculture, fish species are grown and fed in ponds or tanks. The residual effluent is then released directly into the environment with little or no treatment. This effluent is rich in nutrients, which at inc…

By Ronnie J. Gilbert, University of Georgia and published by SRAC. Marketing aquaculture products is no different than marketing other agriculture products.

By Nicky Holmyard, FAO Globefish. Peruvian trout producers are set to benefit from a new FAO-funded project that will introduce a management and policy alignment tool to help rationalise and develop the entire aquaculture sector.

By Nick Taylor, Cefas and published by CEFAS Finfish News - Issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007. Over 140 species of Argulus have been described throughout the world. The majority of these crustaceans are ectoparasites of fish and are often referred to as fish lice.

A National Institute for Animal Agriculture Publication. Activists continue to apply increased pressure on antibiotic use in food-producing animals, and activists messages are being more than heard.

By Lidun Mosaker, Fiskeriforskning. You can see and smell if a fish is good, but determining its keeping quality requires more precise methods.

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Report 2007 for Ukraine. A link to the full report is also provided.

By K.J. Rana Institute of Aquaculture. First published by FAO Fisheries Circular No. 1017/6

By Richard D. Miles and Frank A. Chapman, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS)

By Mark James, FRM Ltd and Richard Slaski and published by CEFAS Finfish News - Issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007.

By Helga Josupeit, FAO Globefish. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 28.6.2007 announced it is blocking the import from China of five species of seafood namely catfish, eel, shrimp, basa and dace until their importers can prove they are not contamina…

By USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This article provides highlights of the fishery products shrimp industry data from the USDA FAS Fishery Products Shrimp Report 2007 for Vietnam. A link to the full report is also provided.