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With aquaculture providing half of seafood eaten and the industry continuing to grow, research done by Emiko Phillips and Lyn Newton, University of West of England Bristol, found that the majority of consumers in the UK know little about aquaculture. The artic…

Gentle and short-lived crowding and pumping from the sea cage to the processing vessel is best in order to achieve good quality and long shelf life of salmon fillet. This is one of the conclusions of a project carried out at Marine Harvest from 2010-2011 invol…

The use of alternative lipids in tilapia feeds is becoming increasingly commonplace due to the rising cost of fish oil (FO). However, since this practice will reduce the content of heath beneficial long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) in tilapia fi…

The overall objective of the Commission's proposals for a modern and simpler Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is to make fishing sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. The new policy will bring fish stocks back to sustainable levels by ending o…

A new study, by Villasante S, Morato T, Rodriguez Gonzalez D, et al, reports that fishing depths in the EU have increased, with more deep-sea fish species being harvested. Deep-sea fish populations are often more vulnerable to effects of fishing, and the ecolo…

Researchers from the USDA/ARS National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Leetown, USA have conducted genome scans of rainbow trout families from a single broodstock population to identify the effect quantitative trait loci (QTL) have on stress respon…

During earlier trials involving wild cod in captivity, scientists at Nofima have experienced problems getting the cod to eat pellet feed. Nofima, in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Research and SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, has now demonstrated …

This factsheet published by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on phytoplankton culture for aquaculture feed.

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing enabled an array of whole genome sequencing or re-sequencing projects in both model and non-model species. Such efforts have produced a wealth of genome resources. However, thorough genome analysis thereafter is es…

Populations of large pelagic predators have declined recently due to intensified exploitation. Boris Worm and Derek P. Tittensor, Dalhousie University, Canada, look at the range contraction of large marine pelagic predators, specifically tuna and billfish, by …

The potential impact of sea lice infestation on outwardly migrating Atlantic salmon smolts has been investigated, by researchers from the Marine Institute, Ireland, by treating populations of ranched salmon, prior to release, with a prophylactic sea lice treat…

Biologists from the University of Bonn have discovered that the cichlid fish Pelvicachromis taeniatus can see in the near infrared range; this was thought to be unlikely until now. Seeing in the infrared range is apparently helping fish to hunt in shallow Afri…

This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on disease prevention on fish farms.

This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on amyloodinium ocellatum, an important parasite of cultured marine fish.

This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on diseases of concern in molluscan aquaculture.

Fishmeal is a complex protein source that is commonly used in fish feed. A new article published in Animal Feed Science and Technology shows how fishmeal physical and chemical properties influence both the production of fish feed and the physical feed quality.…

Catfish farmers in Vietnams Mekong River Delta are barely scraping by. They operate on the tightest of profit margins 3% to 5% in a good year and deal with a highly volatile, boom-and-bust export market. For an industry thats already on the brink, could the ad…

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…

The zebrafish is a potential tool for testing one class of unique individual genetic differences found in humans, and may yield information helpful for the emerging field of personalized medicine, according to a team led by Penn State College of Medicine scien…

Tunas and their relatives dominate the worlds largest ecosystemsand sustain some of the most valuable fisheries. The impacts offishing on these species have been debated intensively over thepast decade, giving rise to divergent views on the scale and extentof …

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…

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.

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, according to information …

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…

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…

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.

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.

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 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.

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…

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 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 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…