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Western Australia Abalone World’s first to achieve International Sustainability Certification

UK.- Today the Western Australia Abalone Fishery has been certified to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) fishery standard. Collaboration between researchers and fisheries has made ...

New centre for sustainable aquaculture aims to unlock solutions to global food security

UK.- With the world’s population set to increase to almost 10 billion by 2050, providing future generations with safe and sustainable farmed seafood is the ...

BioMar at Karmøy sets production capacity record

Denmark.- BioMar Group’s Karmøy production facility in Norway has officially opened Line 3, which has an annual capacity of 140,000 tonnes of fish feed, increasing ...

TiLV threatens food security

Rome, Italy.- An estimated 180 000 tonnes of tilapia (whole and fillet frozen) were traded in the international market during January-March 2017, approximately 10 percent ...

Sysco, US Foods fail Greenpeace seafood sustainability ranking despite industry-wide improvements

Washington, DC.– In the second edition of its Sea of Distress report released today, Greenpeace found that some foodservice industry players — especially Sodexo, Aramark, ...

Shellfish producers call for action on shocking report of raw sewage discharges to sea

Dublin, Ireland.- IFA’s shellfish farming sector Chairman, Michael Mulloy, said today that the latest report by the EPA showing a dramatic increase in breaches of ...

New report reveals more fish populations are in critical condition than reported by the Government of Canada

Toronto, Canada.- Today, Oceana Canada released the most comprehensive review of the state of Canada’s fisheries and the first annual assessment of how the government ...

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and Desalination: A Guide to Impacts, Monitoring and Management

Paris, France.- The first ever guidebook on the growing threat harmful algal blooms pose to seawater desalination plants has been published.

Protecting aquaculture by vaccinating fish

Netherlands.- Researchers with the EU-funded TARGETFISH project are using vaccines to help combat the outbreak of disease in farmed fish species.

New research reveals competitive males salmons can adjust sperm speed

New Zealand.- It’s a fish tale of a sexual nature that may impact our understanding of male fertility. A University of Canterbury doctoral researcher has ...