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 ...
Read moreUnited Nations Environment Programme Report Highlights Threat Posed by Abuse of Antibiotics in Aquaculture
USA.- Earlier this month, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a report, Frontiers 2017: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern, finding “antimicrobial resistance from environmental ...
Read moreScottish aquaculture sector embracing innovation support, proves new video case studies
Scotland.- This week saw the launch of a new video case study campaign by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), highlighting the way in which ...
Read moreGlobal workshop closes with commitment to enabling environment for new research on fish for nourishment
Participants at the Global Workshop on Nutrition-sensitive Fish Agri-food Systems which closed 8 December in Siem Reap, Cambodia agreed that while evidence is mounting that ...
Read moreInnovative 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 ...
Read moreAutomatic 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 ...
Read moreNew leader for CtrlAQUA
Norway.- Åsa Espmark is the new Centre Director of CtrlAQUA. She takes over from Bendik Fyhn Terjesen who has headed the Centre from its inception ...
Read moreThailand 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 ...
Read moreFirst 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 ...
Read moreSupreme 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 ...
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