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Using light to find blood in fish

Norway.- An advanced light meter developed by Nofima is set to revolutionise the processing of fish. White fish can be sorted according to the amount ...

Aquaculture Team of IPB Researched the Effect of Electric Field on the Development of Gonad of Comet Fish

Indonesia.- Attempts to produce the comet fish were still done in the traditional way with the low spawning success rates. The spawning failure was thought ...

Aquatic export expected to hit 9 billion USD in 2018

Hanoi, Vietnam.- The Directorate of Fisheries has set a seafood export value of 9 billion USD for 2018, as heard at a conference held on ...

Scale-eating fish adopt clever parasitic methods to survive

USA.- A small group of fishes — possibly the world’s cleverest carnivorous grazers — feeds on the scales of other fish in the tropics. The ...

Research shows streams can be used as diagnostic tools for ecosystem health

USA.- When excess fertilizer from farms and cities runs off into water supplies, it can lead to severe human health and economic consequences. Utah County ...

Nanowrinkles could save billions in shipping and aquaculture

Australia.- Sydney scientists have developed nanowrinkled coatings that could avoid the build-up of damaging biological material and save some of the $320 million annually spent ...

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 ...