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Biofuels, Biosecurity and Seafood Safety
Danette Olsen of Cawthron Institute in New Zealand explains how research there is improving our knowledge of how algae impact food safety issues in shellfish, and how they can be put to good use for biofuel production. Her article is published in New...
A Day with the Algae Technicians
Lars Bannenberg of KSG Apeldoorn High School in the Netherlands and Cawthron Institute in New Zealand explains how micro-algae are grown at the Institute, and how culture methods are being improved. His article was published in New Zealand Aquaculture....
Cooperative Programme Ensures Safe Shellfish
An outline of the US Food and Drug Administration's co-operative programme that ensures shellfish are safe for consumers to eat.
Production Methods for New Zealand Mussels
The New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus), also referred to as the Greenshell® Mussel, has been harvested for human consumption since the beginning of human habitation in New Zealand. This fact sheet produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation...
Surveying a Year of Scottish Shellfish Farms
During 2008 Scottish Mussel production increased by 22 per cent in comparison with the previous year, writes Adam Anson, TheFishSite.
Stewardship Council to Establish Certification Programme
A new certification programme for aquaculture operations is being established by the World Wildlife Fund, writes TheFishSite senior editor, Chris Harris.
Production Methods for the Mediterranean Mussel
The habitat of the locations where culture takes place is very similar. Galicia (NW Spain) has been taken as a model in this fact sheet produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to explain how the different systems of mussel...
Microbial Source Tracking Methods for Shellfish Harvests
It is well established that filter-feeding molluscan shellfish grown in production areas subject to faecal pollution may pose a human health hazard following consumption, writes Craig Baker-Austin, Rachel Rangdale and David Lees, as part of of the Cefas...
Carbon Sequestration Potential of Shellfish
As the global average temperature increases and CO2 within the ocean begins to reach saturation the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon will alter significantly, writes J. P. Hickey, School of Natural and Built Environs, University of South...
Scottish Aquaculture - A Sustainable Future
Carrying and assimilative capacity of the environment is fundamental to the extent to which aquaculture can develop sustainably, writes Mark James, FRM Ltd, in a CEFAS Shellfish News publication.
Production Methods for Blue Mussels
Blue mussels are widely distributed in European waters, extending from the White Sea, Russia as far as south as the Atlantic coast of Southern France. The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department explains how this shellfish is produced across the glo...
Shellfish Industry Development Strategy - One Year On
The UK Shellfish Industry Development Strategy (SIDS), the Seafish-funded, SAGB-facilitated project looking to sustainably develop wildcaught and cultivated shellfisheries, has been progressing for over a year now. Tom Pickerell, in this CEFAS Shellfish...
 

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