Aquaculture on News

Government Outlines Aquaculture Reforms

Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:45 administrator

Scoop Parliament, 22 July 2010

The Government has today announced further steps in its plan to implement key changes to Aquaculture. Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister, Hon Phil Heatley, says Cabinet has agreed to further recommendations that will boost the sector’s potential to generate sustainable economic growth.

“This is another significant step on the path towards much-needed reform,” says Mr Heatley. “In the past the industry has been stifled by inflexible rules that...

Collective Effort Must To Protect Indigenous Fish Species

Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:43 administrator

The New Nation, 22 July 2010

Speakers at a discussion here today underscored the need for a collective effort to protect the native fish species particularly the small indigenous ones from the verge of extinction along with meeting the national protein deficiency. They viewed that frequent and indiscriminate use of harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the agricultural lands and other water bodies and abnormal declining of the wetlands are being adjudged as the main reasons for...

Why We Should Grow and Eat More Seaweed?

Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:32 administrator

theecologist.org, 20 July 2010

It's one of the healthiest, most versatile 'weeds' around. Asian countries have enjoyed the benefits for centuries. So where is the market for homegrown UK seaweed? Was ever a group of aquatic plants more inaptly named? True, they're found in the sea, but the likes of kelp, dulse, laver, badderlocks, carrageen and tangle are so much more than weeds.

Seaweed, in fact, is something of an über underwater vegetable, with all the health-giving properties of any...

Better Control of Reproduction in Trout and Salmon May Be In Aquaculture's Future

Thursday, 22 July 2010 09:41 administrator

eurekalert.org, 21 July 2010

Fast-growing farm-raised salmon and trout that are sterile can now be produced using a method developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. Blocking reproduction can enhance growth, and is important for fish being reared in situations where reproduction is undesirable.

The method allows researchers to more efficiently and reliably produce fish that have three sets of chromosomes, instead of the usual two sets. Fish with the extra set of...

Biosensor for Aquaculture Disease Control Developed

Tuesday, 01 June 2010 09:36 administrator

Spain, fis.com, 01 June 2010

A team of scientists at the University of Granada (UGR) are working on the development of a biosensor that allows for the long-term control of the virulence of some marine bacteria and halophiles responsible for the appearance of pathogenic diseases in farmed fish and molluscs.

The experts are members of the UGR research group of Microbial Exopolisacarides and work under the coordination of microbiologist Emilia Quesada Arroquia and the Inmaculada Llamas...

More Articles...