ARS Research Helps Make Oysters Safer

By J. Kim Kaplan*USA.- Farmed oysters and clams are the leading species when it comes to U.S. marine aquaculture, with sales of all mollusks at ...

An adaptation 150 million years in the making

Canada.- Just how do snapping shrimp snap? This was the question plaguing scientists who set out to uncover the mysterious mechanisms producing big biology in ...

Advancing Aquaculture To Meet Growing Demand

By Jan SuszkiwUSA.- Half the seafood that U.S. consumers eat comes from aquaculture—the raising and harvesting of freshwater and marine species in controlled conditions. Over ...

Ecological Risk Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources

This report presents the outcomes of the Ecological Risk Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources workshop held from 25-27 October ...

Genetic barcodes are used to quantify crucial populations in a coral reef ecosystem

Rehovot, Israel.- Almost all the wildly varied, colorful fish that populate coral reefs start life as tiny, colorless, tadpole-like larvae. Telling one from the other ...

Vietnam shrimp sales to go on the rise in QIV

After a reduction in the first quarter, Vietnam’s shrimp exports in QII and QIII/2017 showed the possitive growth. Of that, exports in QII increased by ...

ELSTAT announces the results of the Survey on Aquaculture for 2016

Piraeus, Greece.- The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announces the results of the Survey on Aquaculture for the reference year 2016.

Self-fertilizing fish have surprising amount of genetic diversity

USA.- As weird animals go, the mangrove killifish is in a class of its own. It flourishes in both freshwater and water with twice as ...

Weekly Fish Consumption Linked to Better Sleep, Higher IQ, Penn Study Finds

USA.- Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that are 4 points higher, on average, than those ...

Research reveals how climate change may affect Hawaiian fishpond aquaculture

USA.- For centuries, indigenous peoples of the Hawaiian Islands practiced sustainable aquaculture by building walled fishponds in coastal estuaries. Historical records estimate that, in the ...