Tilapia-Skin Gelatine Next for Aquafinca
HONDURAS - Aquafinca Saint Peter Fish, the leading tilapia producer of Honduras, forcasts a 12 per cent business growth for 2010, in spite of having faced serious...

Accessing Markets Directly To Improve Payments
MYAMAR - The fisheries industry is seeking to do direct trade with the Middle East. They are working to cut out the middle men when selling Rohu to the Middle Eastern...

Peru Triples Aquaculture Output over Five Years
PERU - Aquaculture production has grown by 300 per cent over the last five years, and the Minister predicts that the trend will continue.

Time Honours Fish Breeding Invention
AUSTRALIA - An Australian company’s breakthrough in the breeding of Southern Bluefin Tuna in captivity has been named as the world’s second best invention of the...

WWF Believe Atlantic Bluefin Trade Ban Is Vital
BRAZIL - The Atlantic tuna commission has come up with only inadequate or delayed actions to ensure the recovery of the eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna, the global...

First Biomarine Fish In 'Cages'
BRUNEI - The first 300 tiger grouper fingerlings were released into the deep-sea fish cages of the newly-formed Brunei-China joint-venture.

Korea Looks to Pacific Nations for Tuna Supply
SOUTH KOREA - South Korea will introduce a plan to foster the farming of tuna, one of its main fishery exports.

Anchovy Parasite Hazard Depends on Location
SPAIN - A research team at the University of Granada (Spain) has confirmed a higher presence of the parasite Anisakis spp in anchovies of the Atlantic South...

Deep Sea Aquaculture Promises Quality Products
US - Open Blue Sea Farms farm cobia, using environmentally safe and sustainable deep ocean aquaculture methods, which they believe will produce a cost efficient...

Bluefin Tuna Face Extinction
WASHINGTON - An International fisheries group set up to protect Atlantic tuna has done the opposite and driven one species of the fish, the bluefin, to the edge...

US Delegation Visits Panabo Mariculture Park
PHILIPPINES - Some 14 investors from the US and China visited the 60-hectare, Panabo City Mariculture Park at the end of October to personally observe its operation....

FDA Announces MUMS Grant Programme Awards
US - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded the first two grants to support the development of new animal drugs intended for minor species or minor uses...

Govt of Malta Urged to Support Tuna Fishing Ban
MALTA - The government is being urged to back the recent international bluefin tuna fishing ban.

Climate Change Will Impact Filippino Milkfish Farmers
PHILIPPINES - Recent meetings addressed the impact of climate change on small-scale milkfish farmers.

Challenging Year for Irish Sea Fisheries
IRELAND - The Irish Sea Fisheries Board (Bord Iascaigh Mhara; BIM) has published its Annual Report 2008 subtitled Developing the seafood industry, sustaining...

Government To Consider Tuna Industry Help
AUSTRALIA - The Federal Government says it will consider what level of support it can offer Port Lincoln's tuna industry once plans are in place to manage a cut...

Hawaii Approves First Bigeye Tuna Farm
HAWAII, US - The state's first bigeye tuna farm has been approved off Big Island. The fish will be hatched at a University of Hawaii lab to reduce the risk of disease...

Quota Cuts for Southern Bluefin 'Insufficient'
GLOBAL - A 20 per cent cut in the Southern Bluefin Tuna take could still be too little, too late for the species which is on the brink of collapse, WWF and the wildlife...

Maltese Govt Proposes Alternative Aquaculture Zone
MALTA - The government plans an 'alternative' northern zone for tuna farming as objections have been raised to a previous plan for a more southerly zone.

Conservationists Take Action over Endangered Fish
CALIFORNIA, US - Conservationists are threatening to sue the authorities and appeal to the state for emergency action as delta mmelt spiral towards extinction.

Gomes da Costa Sells Tuna to Iraq
BRAZIL - Brazilian company Gomes da Costa, the leader in the fishery market in Latin America, sold 300,000 cans of tuna to Iraq for the value of US$ 250,000.

Administration Must Decide on Bluefin Tuna Protection
US - The Obama administration must decide today whether it will back a proposal to give greater protection for Atlantic bluefin tuna.

Marked Growth in Madeira's Aquaculture Output
PORTUGAL - Aquaculture exports from Madeira are predicted to rise by 80 per cent this year compared to 2008. The main focus is on the production of common sea b...

Norway's Mackerel Quota Unfilled as Fish Swim Off
EU - The Norwegian government is seeking urgent talks with EU fishing leaders now that huge mackerel shoals have crossed into UK waters and are now mainly swimming...

Move Towards Sustainable Blue Fin Tuna Farming
CROATIA - A vital step towards closed life cycle farming of the commercially valuable Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna (NBT) was achieved in the Adriatic farming sites of...