People & planet

The volume of Australian fisheries production varied over the period 200001 to 200910 according to the data produced by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) in its annual Australian fisheries statistics for 2010.

The needfor epidemiological approaches to protect aquatic animal health will inevitably increasein the face of the combined challenges of climate change, increasing anthropogenicpressures, limited water sources and the growth in aquaculture, write Edmund Peele…

Three studies of tuna fishery bycatch have been commissioned by FAO: investigations covering the purse seine, longline and small-scale fisheries. This document presents the results of the work on the small-scale tuna fishery bycatch and the associated issues.

Despite it being well over a year since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, worries about general seafood safety continue to be at a high, reports the Louisiana Sea Grant Programme.

Mycotoxin analysis results for the second quarter of 2011 from Biomin, including more than 2,800 analyses of more than 800 animal feed ingredients. At least one mycotoxin was found in 90 per cent of the samples.