Global leaders in seafood step up their actions for ocean stewardship

Sweden.- A dialogue between ten of the largest seafood companies in the world concluded on 4 September, 2018 with a shared commitment to advance sustainable ...

Quantifying Red Sea plastics from coasts to fish

While drones scan beaches to assess plastic litter, microplastics are found in the digestive tracts of one in every six Red Sea fish.

BFAR creates more tuna conservation zones

By Allen Estabillo*General Santos City, Philippines.- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) will set up additional Tuna Conservation and Management Zones (TCMZ) in ...

FDA Rejects More Indian Shrimp for Antibiotic Contamination and Salmonella in August

USA.- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that, in August, 6 out of the 107 (5.6%) total seafood entry line refusals were of ...

New High-Quality Shrimp Genome Assembly May Reveal Why Females are Superior

Tel Aviv, Hong Kong & St. Louis.- Enzootic, an animal biotechnology and genetics company leading the all-female shrimp revolution, and NRGene, the world’s leading provider ...

Reducing nitrogen inputs prevents algal blooms in lakes

Germany.- For decades, experts have debated whether reducing the amount of nitrogen flowing into lakes can improve water quality in the long-term, even though blue-green ...

DA-BFAR, tuna industry to launch enhanced management plan

By Allen EstabilloGeneral Santos, Philippines.- The government and tuna industry stakeholders will launch here on Thursday the newly-completed enhanced national management plan for tuna fisheries.

Plans for a 385-metre fish farm facility in the open sea

By Ingvil Snøfugl*Norway.- An entirely new fish farm design, which looks more like an elongated offshore oil platform than a traditional aquaculture facility, may soon ...

Machine learning algorithm automatically sorts zebrafish egg

Germany.- Zebrafish possess almost all of the same genes we humans do – and that makes their eggs the perfect model organisms for use in ...

CTSA Sea Cucumber Hatchery Manual

USA.- CTSA has released a new “Hatchery Manual for Sea Cucumber Aquaculture in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands” (CTSA Publication 163). The manual is available ...