FDA Releases updated March 2020 to the Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls Guidance, Fourth Edition

USA.- The US Food and Drug Administration’s Division of Seafood Safety is announcing the availability of specific chapters and appendixes of the “Fish and Fishery ...

Oysters and Clams Can be Farmed Together

USA.- Eastern oysters and three species of clams can be farmed together and flourish, potentially boosting profits of shellfish growers, according to a Rutgers University–New ...

Ignoring predation – does it matter for fisheries management?

Denmark.- In fisheries models, little is known about the consequences of ignoring predation. A recent paper by members of our Working Group on Multispecies Assessment ...

More protein and good for the planet: 9 reasons we should be eating microalgae

By Martina Doblin, Donna Sutherland and Peter Ralph, The ConversationAs the climate warms, the land we use for growing energy-intensive crops such as wheat and ...

Study Finds Fish Have Diverse Gut Microbiomes

Maine, USA.- The rich biodiversity of coral reefs even extends to microbial communities within fish, according to new research. The study in Proceedings of the ...

ParaFishControl final results shared in online webinar

ParaFishControl held its final event via an online webinar on 11 March 2020. The event, which focused on innovative strategies to control parasites in aquaculture ...

Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming

A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing the power of genome sequencing to help Aquaculture farmers manage ...

New research aims to give more, safer and cleaner seafood

By Runar Bjørkvik Mæland*Bergen, Norway.- In a major new initiative, scientists at IMR will study how to get more food from the ocean into our ...

Study: Helping young fish see at night makes them grow faster

By JM de la Cruz*The Phillipines.- Pompano, locally known as apahan or dawis lawin, is a high-value fish which is in demand both in the ...

Sturgeon genome sequenced

By Gunnar Bartsch*Germany.- Sturgeons lived on earth already 300 million years ago and yet their external appearance seems to have undergone very little change. A ...