Diversification is key to boosting EU’s aquaculture sector

According to the EU-funded DIVERSIFY project, European aquaculture employs 190 000 people and has a EUR 7 billion ex-farm value. But only 10 % of ...

Innovative Solutions for Nutritious, Safe and Sustainable Seafood in Europe

Ireland.- SEAFOODTOMORROW is a new, €7m European Union Horizon 2020-funded project that aims to develop innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties ...

Automatic weighing for catches recommended

Norway.- Nofima’s researchers are clear that the current regulations for landing fish hamper efficiency. They also know what it will take to curb accusations of ...

Thailand hides big numbers when it comes to its fish catches in neighbouring waters

USA.- Fish catches by Thailand’s distant-water fleet fishing throughout the Indo-Pacific are almost seven times higher than what the country reports to the Food and ...

First brown shrimp fishery achieves MSC certificate for sustainability

UK.- The North Sea brown shrimp fishery (Crangon crangon) — operating in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands — has achieved MSC certification following a collaboration ...

Supreme Court Rejects Request to Review Commerce’s Authority to Apply High Antidumping Duties in Response to Exporters’ Fraud

USA.- In multiple administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on Chinese shrimp, the Chinese shrimp producer and exporter Hilltop International provided false information to ...

New procedure for faster detection of environmental impacts from salmon farms

In order to meet the demands for salmon, many salmon farms have developed along the coasts of Scandinavia and Scotland. These operations are governed by ...

Seaweed could hold key to environmentally friendly sunscreen

UK.- A compound found in seaweed could protect human skin from the damaging impact of the sun without causing harm to marine ecosystems.

Wild fisheries landings decline while aquaculture surges

Landings of wild-caught fish in OECD countries are 40% below their late 1980s peak and continue to decline, while aquaculture production has been increasing at ...

Genetics improves fish resistance

Norway.- The combination of three genetic markers on three chromosomes can be the key to high survival after viral infection in salmon farming.