People & planet

Increasing consumer awareness to unsustainable aquaculture practices have made the prospect of organic aquaculture both environmentally and economically fruitful, but strict standards make this goal difficult to achieve. As the US considers by-passing this obs…

As well asbeing a farm thatproduces fish forfood, Aranyponty- in Magyar, theGolden Carp -communicatesthe importance ofmanaging Europeswetland heritageto society, bydiverse social andeducational activities, says a report in the CONSENSUS brochure: 'Towards Sust…

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 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 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.

By John Holmyard, Offshore Shellfish Ltd. Published in Shellfish News 25 Spring Summer 2008.

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.

By John Taylor and Herve Migaud, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Finfish News, Number 5, Winter/Spring 2008.

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…

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…

Our nations inland waters and coasts provide a wide variety of seafood with diverse health benefits, writes Jeff Silverstein, USDA Agriculural Research Service.

It has been over 30 years since the first introductions of the American signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) into the U.K., which was originally brought into the country for aquaculture purposes, writes Paul Stebbing, Fish Health Inspectorate, Cefas Weym…

By Robin S. Waples, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Richard W. Zabel,Fish Ecology Division, Mark D. Scheuerell, Fish Ecology Division, and Beth L. Sanderson, Environmental Conservation Division, Seattle. Published in Molecular Ecology January 2008…

By J.E. Rensel of Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences and J.R.M.Forster of Forster Consulting. Prepared for NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, National Sea Grant College Programme, Occice of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Washington DC. A study to quant…

By Jane Jordan, TheFishSiteEditor. A University of Calgary algal ecologist has discovered a disturbing relationship between Didymosphenia geminata(or Didymo for short) and dams. This novel algae has a preference for clear water and could be potentially damagin…

This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites, write Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore.

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…

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, 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 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…