This report was published by the News South Wales, Department of Primary Industries, Primefact #825. The New South Wales wild harvest commercial fishing industry is a dynamic network of skilled businesses.
Aquatic resources to produce clean energy could be part of the answer to meeting the world's energy needs and demands, writes TheFishSite Senior Editor Chris Harris.
By Dr. Bronson K. Strickland, Assistant Extension Professor; Dr. Richard M. Kaminski, Professor; Dr. Aaron T. Pearse, MSU alumnus and now Wildlife Research Biologist and Dr. W. Daryl Jones, Assistant Extension Professor. Published by the Mississippi State Univ…
This feature is an extract taken from a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. You can view the full report by clicking on the link provided below.
This is an extract of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to the Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. It discusses why multiple administrative and environmental issues need to be addressed in establishing …
By Christian Lckstdt, ADDCON Nordic AS. It is a well established fact in the field of aquaculture, that the use of antibiotic growth promoters as an in-feed additive for the diets of fish and shrimp may promote growth and feed conversion as well as improve sur…
By Sharon Durham, Marcia Wood, and Alfredo Flores, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. The Agricultural Research Services genomics and phenomics research is laying the foundation for future livestock production improvements.
The illegal global trade of caviar, overfishing, growing habitat loss and pollution have decimated sturgeon populations around the world, report Marina Muran, Erik Hansen and Cynthia Barmore in a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service GAIN report.
By ERS USDA. This monthly report examines supply, use, prices, and trade for feed grains, including supply and demand prospects in major importing and exporting countries. Focuses on corn; also contains information on sorghum, barley, oats, and hay.
By Saravanan, S., and Biju Sam Kamalam, J. - PG Scholars at CIFE, Mumbai - and and also John Stephen Sampath Kumar, Associate Professor, FC & RI, Tuticorin, India. Published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.
The threat of exotic animal diseases entering a country has led to a raft of legislation from most authorities preventing the illegal import of animal products, writes TheFishSite senior editor, Chris Harris.
Michael Rubino, of the NOAA Aquaculture Programme, provides an introduction into the findings of this report and visualises what these discoveries may entail.Twenty years ago, offshore aquaculture fish and shellfish farming in U.S. federalwaters was an emergin…
TheFishSite Senior Editor, Chris Harris, looks at some of the issues raised by the controversial NOAA report, Offshore Aquaculture in the United States: Economic Considerations, Implications & Opportunities.
This report is an extract taken from a Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare on a request from the EuropeanCommission on Animal welfare aspects of husbandry systems for farmed Atlantic salmon. The EFSA Journal (2008)736, 1-31.
By Helga Josupeit, FAO Globefish. Total fishmeal production of the main fishmeal exporters for the first four months of 2008 reached 940,000 tonnes, 3% ahead of the corresponding 2007 production.
A survey based on a representative sample of 5 000 US households indicates that consumer confidence dropped sharply in June, to a level which is the fifth-lowest ever, FAO Globefish reports in InfoFish.
By Kenneth D Black and Averil M. Wilson from the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Scotland, published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.
Allen Baker, Edward Allen, and Heather Lutman, ERS USDA. This monthly report examines supply, use, prices, and trade for feed grains, including supply and demand prospects in major importing and exporting countries. Focuses on corn; also contains information o…
As the pressure grows on salmon farmers to guarantee there is no cross over between farmed and wild salmon, more and more research is being carried out into new technologies to ensure a complete separation, writes TheFishSite Senior Editor, Chris Harris.
Farmed Atlantic salmon in the freshwater stage are supplied with extra oxygen to maintain well-being and growth. Recent trials carried out by The National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) have shown that oxygenated water in this life stage c…
This report is an extract taken from the Annual Review & Outlook for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food 2007/2008, examining the fish market situation in Ireland. It was published by the Irish Department or Agriculture Fisheries and Food.
Parasitic nematodes are microscopic, but a major problem in the fish filleting industry. Scientists at Nofima have discovered that light and automation provides a better fillet, writes Martin Steinholt, Nofima.
The Shellfish Industry Development Strategy (SIDS) has been running since August 2007. Tom Pickerell at CEFAS provides an update ofprogress made. Published in the Shellfish News publication, Number 25.
Several social studies have shown that the mass media can affect public perception of risk. It can shape public understanding in the way articles emphasise and de-emphasise particular aspects of risk and the way that certain issues are framed and presented, wr…
The total volume of fisheries production in Australia has increased by 17,500 tonne (eight per cent), since 1999-2000, while the real gross value of production has fallen by $0.8 billion (26 per cent). The increase in production volume is largely the result of…
Compiled and edited by Damien Toner and Carole Rougeot and produced inconjunction with the Aquaculture Technical Section, AquacultureDevelopment Division, An Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
Stronger European herring supplies are reflected in increased round sales to African markets and higher fillet sales to East Europe during the first quarter of 2008. Report prepared by Gerry O'Sullivan, FAO Globefish 2008.
This report is a Review of the Bottom Grown (BG) Mussel Sector on the Island of Ireland conducted on behalf of the departments of agriculture for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and the Loughs Agency and supported by a Secretariat provided by the …
The report is a project of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and The Ocean Foundation (TOF). Funding was provided bygrants from the Munson Foundation, the Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, and an anonymous donor. Theauthors of this report incl…
The EU depends more than ever on imports from third countries to meet its fish demand, reports the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. Import volumes increased by a quarter over the past 5 years and almost all product groups b…
This feature is a Globefish report documenting the tilapia market results for Chinese imports and exports, produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
By researchers* from the Purdue University and printed in the Journal of Extension newsletter, volume 46, number 2. The study reported here involved a mail survey of Indiana aquaculture producers to determine the level of Indiana aquaculture and what producers…
Exotic species of fish have been introduced into different natural environments either to be reared for food or to meet other needs such as horticulture, fishing or hunting for many years and now maintaining the biodiversity of the different water systems of t…
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Gain Report says that according to Russias Federal Customs Service, Russian fish and fish product imports totaled $1.7 billion in 2007, a 44-percent increase from 2006.
