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Aquaculture: looking at the potential for corn growers

USA.- The National Corn Growers Association recently attended the Aquaculture America Conference to learn more about the industry and make connections with companies to discuss ...

U.S. Congress Acts to Place Imported Shrimp Under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program

USA.- The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) is extremely pleased to report that the final Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus appropriations bill includes a long sought-after provision ...

Scientists study spawning salmon through a riverbed lens

USA.- Each year on the United Nations-designated World Water Day, March 22, people around the world consider the importance of fresh water to ecosystems and ...

Lawsuit Demands Ban on Mexican Shrimp, Other Seafood to Save Vanishing Porpoise

New York, USA.- Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for failing to follow federal law and ban shrimp and other seafood imported from Mexico’s ...

Five urgent water issues for policymakers

Germany.- In the run-up to the Bundestag elections in 2017, the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany’s largest research center for ...

Predicting the impact of global warming on disease proliferation

Dublin, Ireland.- Scientists have devised a method for predicting how rising global temperatures are likely to affect the severity of diseases mediated by parasites. Their ...

Emergency transplanting of oyster now allowed for selected waters

Baton Rouge, USA.- Oysters in Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound (known as harvest areas 1 and 2) can now be transplanted to other waters. ...

Aquaculture conference brings together world experts

Las Vegas, USA.- The US Aquaculture Society, along with the World Aquaculture Society, brought together over 2,000 people from 61 countries around the world at ...

Improving occupational safety in aquaculture

By Guro Kulset Merakerås Aquaculture used to be a secondary income source for Norwegians. Now it’s become big business. Occupational safety has made steady advances, ...

Italian Acipenser obtains Friend of the Sea certification for its sturgeon

Newly acquired Italian company Acipenser Srl has been found compliant with Friend of the Sea standard for a number of species of farmed sturgeon: Acipenser ...