White Spot Disease Threatens Kerali Shrimp Farmers

INDIA - Shrimp farming is a means of livelihood for thousands of Keralites residing along the state’s coastline, but a sudden attack of white spot disease is threatening to lay waste to all their success.

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Spring Bay Closed Cycle Mussels: a Friend of the Sea

April 30, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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AUSTRALIA - Spring Bay Mussel Farm, found to excel in all sustainability standards, have received the Friend of the Sea certification.

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ISA Drags Nutreco Fish Feed Sales Under

April 30, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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GENERAL - Nutreco's fish feed sales fell 6.6 per cent this quarter by comparison with that of last year. Once again, ailing results are being attributed to the ISA crisis unfolding on Chile's salmon farms.

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Nofima Tailor Roe for Specific Markets

April 29, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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NORWAY - Do you want to produce salmon with extra red fillet, which is sought-after on the Japanese market, or salmon with a particularly high resistance to disease in exposed areas?

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Vietnamese Shrimp Processing Scales Down

April 29, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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VIET NAM - Seafood exporters are facing a critical shortage of raw shrimp that may last several months, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said.

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Shetland Mussel Farmers Benefit from Grant

April 29, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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EU - Further details of the GBP 2.9 million (USD 4.2 million) European Fisheries Fund (EFF) grant benefiting Scotland will be disclosed at the European Seafood Exposition (ESE) in Brussels today by Scottish fisheries minister Richard Lochhead and environment minister Roseanna Cunningham.

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Mekong Catfish Prices up 20 Per Cent

April 28, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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VIET NAM - Catfish prices in the Mekong Delta have surged 20 per cent overnight, leaving farmers and traders short of fish.

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Clean Seas’ Billion Dollar Babies

April 28, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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AUSTRALIA - They may only be a fraction of the size of a human pinky finger but these Southern
Bluefin Tuna babies born on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula last month represent a
world-first breakthrough and the start of a forecast billion dollar boom for Australia’s
aquaculture industry.

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Aquaculture Still Growing in New South Wales

April 28, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA - Total production of New South Wales (NSW) aquaculture has increased by almost 5 per cent to AU$52 million, according to the latest yearly snapshot released by the Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald today.

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Vietnamese Catfish Pass Italian Safety Checks

April 27, 2009 by Amaete Umanah · Leave a Comment
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VIET NAM - Italian authorities confirmed that Vietnamese basa catfish reached hygiene and food safety standards sufficient to continue consumption on the Italian market.

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