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Seafood Watch Upgrades recommendation of ASC-Certified Farmed Salmon to ‘Good Alternative’

Seattle, USA (GSI).- In an update to its Seafood Watch standards, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has today announced that farmed salmon, certified by the Aquaculture ...

AgriLife Researchers Address Declining Freshwater Mussel Population Statewide

By Gabe SaldanaUSA.- Jennifer Morton hovers methodically over a row of clear, water-filled containers on a tight-spaced industrial shelving system. She plucks a mollusk from ...

Fixing the role of nitrogen in coral bleaching

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.- Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of heat and light stress. With coral ...

Scientists Launch Global Agenda to Curb Social and Human Rights Abuses in the Seafood Sector

Arlington, USA.- As the United Nations Oceans Conference convenes in New York, a new paper calls on marine scientists to focus on social issues such ...

Rising sea temperatures put seafood quality at risk

Australia.- Climate change and ocean acidification has the potential to reduce the quality of seafood, with flow-on effects for future food security and ecosystem stability, ...

GAA Report Identifies Steps for Better Management Of Harmful Algal Blooms

USA.- The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) on May 30 published a report detailing the series of massive harmful algal blooms (HABs) that impacted southern Chile ...

Mystery of electric fish genus solved, new species identified

By Krishna RamanujanIthaca, USA.- Solving a 140-year old taxonomic puzzle, Cornell researchers have identified and described a new species of electric fish from the Ogooué ...

Great uncertainty in the largest dried and salted cod market

Norway.- Norwegian exporters of dried and salted cod have in recent years experiences a marked fall in their largest market, Brazil. The reason is the ...

Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2016

Scotland.- In 2016, 7,732 tonnes of mussels were produced for the table market, this is the highest level of mussel production recorded in Scotland;

Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength

Providence, USA.- Pizza enthusiasts know well that a simple u-shaped curvature at the crust can keep a thin slice from drooping over when lifted from ...