Tilapia health research 2017-2022: Priorities and partnerships

The CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) focuses on the interlinked challenges of sustainable aquaculture and small-scale fisheries (SSFs), and enhancing the contribution ...

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Targeting fish parasites for a healthier aquaculture industry

In Europe alone, fish farming generates EUR 3 billion per year and employs an estimated 80 000 people. But, parasites in farmed fish are causing ...

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The USTR proposes additional duties on chinese seafood imports

On Tuesday, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced that it was beginning the process of imposing an additional ten percent (10%) tariff on $200 ...

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Algae have land genes

Germany.- The genome of the algae species Chara braunii has been decoded. It already contains the first genetic characteristics that enabled the water plants’ evolutionary ...

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Students of Aquaculture Banyuwangi Produce Pellet from Mustang Cactus Pleco

Indonesia.- Increasing population in Indonesia is proportional to the increasing demand for food. Common activities done to meet the needs of food in Indonesia is ...

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Climate change poised to transform marine and freshwater ecosystems

Rome, Italy.- New analysis and modelling released today by FAO and more than 100 collaborating scientists projects that by 2050 climate change will have altered ...

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Fishy chemicals in farmed salmon

USA.- Persistent organic pollutants–or POPs–skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, inhalation, and most commonly, eating contaminated food. As people are becoming ...

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FAO and WorldFish forge partnership to build the resilience of fishers and fish farmers

Rome, Italy.- The International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (WorldFish) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today agreed to boost their efforts ...

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Farming fish alter ‘cropping’ strategies under high CO2

Australia.- Fish that ‘farm’ their own patches of seaweed alter their ‘cropping’ practices under high CO2 conditions, researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia ...

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SOFIA 2018: Is the planet approaching “peak fish”? Not so fast, study says

Rome, Italy.- Global fish production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of fish being captured in the wild has ...

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