Colin Scott from ABP Marine Environmental Research describes managed realignment in the RSPB Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project.
Once described as the holy grail of aquaculture, a new breakthrough in cod may be about to change the way we farm fish forever, writes Adam Anson, TheFishSite.
Once the sole domain of wealthy businessmen and fish experts, aquaculture is becoming increasingly attractive as a domestic amateur hobby. Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite, finds out what it takes to get started.
According to the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance, the time has come for Canadian aquaculture to escape the ghosts of its past and become a world leader in aquaculture. Adam Anson, writing for TheFishSite, takes a closer look.
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...
The recent explosion of pangasius farming in South East Asia is causing concern over environmental and social management. Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite, finds out how a new global set of standards aims to preempt any negative consequences of this...
Early this year it was reported that Viet Nam had become the world's eighth largest seafood exporter, but behind these tidy headlines lies a mish-mash of inter-related management and environmental issues. In these topsy-turvy financial times will the...
Bangladesh is one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. More than 140 million people occupy the country's 144,000 km2 of area, consuming rice and fish as staple foods, reports the Network of Aquaculture Centres in...
The European seabass are able to frequent coastal inshore waters, and occur in estuaries and brackishwater lagoons. Sometimes they venture upstream into freshwater. Here, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains how the different...
In this age of aquaculture the question of fish welfare finds increasing limelight in both the public and political domains. New research attempts to determine what fish desire, whilst identifying expressions of fear and stress, but can we ever really...
Channel catfish are native to flowing waters in temperate environments within North America, including southern Canada and northern Mexico. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations explains how the different systems of catfish production...
Mangroves are essentially a tropical group of salt tolerant plants that occupy the inter-tidal zone of sheltered coasts around estuaries and lagoons, writes Simon Wilkinson for the Network of Aquaculture Centres Asia-Pacific.
Poor environmental management coupled with ill-conceived site location alienates many fish farmers from local communities and the wider public as a whole, writes Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite.
As sea creatures go, shrimp are extraordinarily diverse. From tropical estuarine ecosystems to shallow shelves, continental slopes and deep seas as well as the open ocean, shrimp exist in almost all geographical locations around the world. Yet, in spite...
People who know seafood know that cobia and Florida pompano are among the world’s best, writes Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service Staff, USDA.
















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