Consumers Expect Sustainable Seafood. Are Retailers Up To The Challenge?

Vancouver, Canada.- It’s getting easier to make sustainable seafood choices, thanks to co-operation between Canadian retailers and Seafood Progress, an online reporting program run by ...

IAEA and UN Environment Assist Member States on Mercury Monitoring in Seafood

USA.- Given its devastating health effects as a potent neurotoxin, mercury is one of the top ten chemicals of public concern, according to the World ...

Environmentally friendly control of common disease infecting fish and amphibians

Germany.- Scientists at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) now propose alternative biological concepts to control fungal disease in a more environmentally ...

The barrier tissue of salmon is affected by zinc and omega-3

Norway.- Previously, Nofima scientists have reported that salmon skin is strengthened if there is enough omega-3 and zinc in their feed. A new report shows ...

ASC Launches New Standards for Tropical Marine Finfish, Flatfish and Revision to Pangasius Standard

Netherlands.- To meet the growing market demand for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certified seafood, the organisation has had to develop new standards. Last year saw ...

Apply Now for the Free AQUAEXCEL2020 Training Course: “Fish Nutrition and Feeding”

Applications are now being accepted for the AQUAEXCEL2020 training course entitled “Fish Nutrition and Feeding”. This is a free face-to-face training course provided by Institut ...

Government of Canada announces enhancements to sea lice enforcement in British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada.- Demand for fish and seafood as a high-protein food source is increasing significantly worldwide and putting pressure on wild fish populations. Approximately half ...

BioMar brings feed transparency into the hands of seafood shoppers

Three years in the making and unlike any transparency tool in the seafood industry, BioMar announces Discover, the latest tool from their BioSustain programme, in ...

New indicators could help manage global overfishing

USA.- The smallest plants and creatures in the ocean power an entire food web, including the fish that much of the world’s population depend on ...

EWEAS – Newly launched project aims to increase water and energy efficiency in aquaculture farms through online training programme

A new online training platform has been funded by the European Union which aims to reduce excessive water and energy consumption in aquaculture, through improved ...