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GAA Accepting Applications for 2018 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award

USA.- The Global Aquaculture Alliance is now accepting applications for the 2018 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award.

Healing Burned Paws With Fish Skin

By Cody KitauraUSA.- In the wake of massive wildfires that burned through the Sonoma and Napa areas last fall, Deana Clifford had a bad feeling.

New Project to Significantly Improve Efficiencies in Fish Farming

Galway, Ireland.- An innovative multidisciplinary aquaculture project led by NUI Galway and Athlone Institute of Technology is set to improve production efficiencies and management of ...

Butterfly Acquires Pacifico Aquaculture

Los Angeles, USA.- Butterfly, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm specializing in the food sector, today announced it has acquired Pacifico Aquaculture (“Pacifico”), a leader ...

Tiny probes measure cell surface pH

UK.- Marine diatoms contribute significantly to photosynthesis in our oceans and act as the base of the food chain in many of the most productive ...

Salmon exports valued at NOK 64.7 billion in 2017

Oslo, Norway.- Norway exported salmon worth NOK 64.7 billion in 2017. This is an increase of 5 per cent or NOK 3.4 billion compared with ...

How blockchain & a smartphone can stamp out illegal fishing and slavery in the tuna industry

Australia.- Environmental organisation WWF and its partners have introduced revolutionary blockchain technology to the Pacific Islands’ tuna industry, the first of its kind for this ...

Iowa State University researchers receive EPA grant to study harmful algal blooms in Iowa lakes

Ames, USA.- Iowa State University researchers received a $760,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study overgrowths of harmful algae that increasingly threaten ...

GOAL Conference Returns to Latin America for First Time in Seven Years

USA.- The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s GOAL 2018 conference will be held at the Hilton Colon Guayaquil in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from Sept. 25 to 27, the ...

Climate change drives collapse in marine food webs

Australia.- A new study has found that levels of commercial fish stocks could be harmed as rising sea temperatures affect their source of food. University ...