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.
