New online map makes shellfish harvesting safer

Ottawa, Canada.– The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced today the launch of a new online shellfish harvesting ...

Culturing Black Soldier Fly and Producing Feed from Its Larvae Meal

USA.- The increase of aquatic feed production is facing the challenge of rising cost and decreasing availability of feed ingredients, such as fishmeal (Barry, 2004). ...

Walleye fish populations are in decline

Davis, USA.- Walleye, an iconic native fish species in Wisconsin, the upper Midwest and Canada, are in decline in northern Wisconsin lakes, according to a ...

New Control Methods Can Help Protect Coral Reefs from Invasive Species

Honolulu, USA.– Control efforts such as the removal of shipwrecks and application of chlorine may help mitigate the damaging effects of corallimorph, which is a ...

24th Annual Aquaculture Drug Approval Coordination Workshop agenda is filling up!

USA.- The 24th Annual Aquaculture Drug Approval Coordination Workshop is still a ways off, but we’re lining up a great suite of speakers. Historically, the ...

Vietnam whiteleg shrimp exports to go on the rise in 2018

From 2013 until now, whiteleg shrimp always accounted for over 50% in the total export turnover of shrimp and increasingly express its key position. This ...

Herring larvae could benefit from an acidifying ocean

Norway.- Excess CO2 in the atmosphere is making the oceans more acidic. Some studies show that’s bad news for fish, including commercially important species. But ...

Dolphins tear up nets as fish numbers fall

UK.- Fishing nets suffer six times more damage when dolphins are around – and overfishing is forcing dolphins and fishermen ever closer together, new research ...

CDFW Invites Public Input on Development of State Coastal Marine Aquaculture Program

USA.- The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is seeking public input for a Marine Aquaculture Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) that is in ...

A Kiel research team has developed a new method for tracing protein sources of farmed and wild salmon

Kiel, Germany.- More than half of the world’s fish and seafood products come from aquaculture. The increasing demand and the simultaneous decline of the natural ...