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Researchers create more complete picture of freshwater toxic algal bloom

USA.- Using two different measurement methods, researchers from North Carolina State University conducted a two-year study of North Carolina’s Jordan Lake in which they monitored ...

Fish and Seafood Market in Poland

USA.- Poland’s 2017 total estimated catch was 196,900 metric tons (MT), including fish from the Baltic Sea and long-distance, deep-sea fishing. Despite an increase in ...

Largest Chinook salmon disappearing from West Coast

USA.- The largest and oldest Chinook salmon — fish also known as “kings” and prized for their exceptional size — have mostly disappeared along the ...

High levels of microplastics found in Northwest Atlantic fish

By Conn HastingsA new study sheds light on the magnitude of microplastic pollution in our oceans. The study, published today in open-access journal Frontiers in ...

IOC Training Course and Identification Qualification in Harmful Marine Microalgae including optional workshops on enumeration and culture techniques, 2018

Since 1993 the IOC has conducted training courses on harmful microalgae. The purpose has been to improve the taxonomic and identification skills of the participants ...

Molecular analysis says seaweed not ‘mermaid hair’

New Zealand.- Molecular analysis has confirmed an unusual seaweed hauled up on an anchor in the Bay of Islands late last year is not the ...

Fisheries Committee MEPs approve new EU-Mauritius fisheries Protocol

The new four-year-deal provides fishing opportunities for 40 tuna seiners and 45 surface long-liners, and a maximum of 20 supply vessels to assist the EU ...

Innovation and the Ripple Effect

Scotland.- Over the last three years, SAIC has connected companies who farm our waters with Scotland’s excellent universities – accelerating innovation, strengthening national food security ...

Perched on an aquaculture breakthrough

By Dan SimmonsMilwaukee, USA.- In a laboratory tank, 8,000 larval fish circle in schools, 18 days old and barely larger than an exclamation point. In ...

To build up mussels, you need to know your fish

USA.- Times are tough for 31 of Michigan’s 45 varieties of freshwater mussels. Sporting evocative names like wavy-rayed lampmussel and round pigtoe, these residents of ...