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Pharmaceuticals and other contaminants force fish to work much harder to survive

Canada.- Pharmaceuticals and other man-made contaminants are forcing fish that live downstream from a typical sewage treatment plant to work at least 30 per cent ...

IPRS Field Day helps popularize system to ASC Aquaculture Industry

The IPRS (In-Pond Raceway System) developed with the help of Auburn University and commercially tested by USSEC in China for several years, is a popular, ...

Pacific Seafood is World’s First to Offer Four-Star BAP Oysters

USA.- Pacific Seafood, one of North America’s largest seafood companies, is the world’s first company to offer four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) oysters. Four-star is ...

Feinstein Institute discovers genes that repair spinal cord in fish are also in humans

Manhasset, USA.- Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Associate Professor Ona E. Bloom, PhD, along with colleagues at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), published ...

China’s Changing Tides: Shifting Consumption and Trade Position of Chinese Seafood

Utrecht, The Netherlands.- China’s domestic seafood supply is set to stagnate, while demand continues to rise. This will bring opportunities for global companies, such as ...

A hard shell: how mussels are affected by ocean acidification

Scientists studying calcium in a marine environment have discovered a direct link between the acidification of the seas in a changing climate and the rate ...

Significant rise in trout exports

Tehran, Iran (MNA).– High quality fish production of trout species in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province paved suitable ground for the considerable increase of this aqua ...

Species identification in the water bottle

Germany.- Environmental DNA analysis makes it possible to detect water organisms without having to capture them first. For the first time, a team at the ...

The Role of Shellfish Aquaculture in Reduction of Eutrophication in an Urban Estuary

USA.- Land-based management has reduced nutrient discharges; however, many coastal waterbodies remain impaired. Oyster “bioextraction” of nutrients and how oyster aquaculture might complement existing management ...

Dramatic decline in genetic diversity of Northwest salmon charted

By Eric Sorensen, WSU NewsPullman, USA.- Columbia River Chinook salmon have lost as much as two-thirds of their genetic diversity, Washington State University researchers have ...