Red Tide Likely To Hit New England In 2010
US - The New England shellfish industry faces the threat of widespread red tide outbreaks this spring and summer that could force hundreds of miles of clam flats...

Best Management And Performance Standards For Shellfish
CANADA - A new report by the National Research Council recommends how to apply best management practices and performance standards to maintain or restore ecosystems...

Global Sustainability Standards For Bivalve Aqua
US - The final step in the process of creating global standards for bivalve aquaculture began this week, when the Bivalve Aquaculture Dialogue kicked off the last...

New Cockle Enforcement Welcomed
SCOTLAND, UK - The implementation of the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing for Cockles)(Western Isles)(Scotland) Order which came into effect yesterday (25...

Shelling Out The Warnings
US - Since 2005, companies that process shellfish in Bay, Franklin and Gulf counties have been sent nearly 80 letters from the state warning that they were in violation...

Protection for Island Cockle Industry
SCOTLAND - SNP MSP for the Western Isles, Alasdair Allan, has obtained an assurance from the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs that he will legislate in the next...

Clam Fishery Receives MSC Certification
VIETNAM - The Ben Tre clam fishery in Vietnam has received Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, becoming the first fishery in Southeast Asia to meet the...

US Seafood Industry Calls for More Regulation
US - The seafood industry is calling for better controls, particularly regarding pack weights. The Food and Drug Adminstration is reposnding to the calls to stop...

Scottish Farmed Shellfish Important, Minister Told
SCOTLAND, UK - The Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group has underlined to Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham MSP the importance of the farmed shellfish sector...

Study on Impact of Ocean Acid Levels on Shellfish
CALIFORNIA, US - Bodega Bay scientists are investigating the danger from increasing levels of acid in the ocean, which could devastate the state's shellfish ind...

Shellfish Ban Frustrates PEI Fisheries Minister
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA - P.E.I.'s minister of fisheries and aquaculture is voicing concern over the ban on harvesting maritime shellfish.

Australian Abalone Investors Stuck in Limbo
AUSTRALIA - Investors in an aquaculture company, whose abalone breeding programmes were hit by mortality rates of up to 100 per cent, have launched a bid to keep...

Call for Australian Abalone Enquiry Rejected
AUSTRALIA - The Opposition is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into a failed west coast aquaculture company in South Australia.

Praise for Handling of Abalone Disease in Victoria
AUSTRALIA - The fishing community in Victoria’s South-West is being congratulated for observing the restricted fishing area between Lion Headland and the Aire River...

Abalone Rush Leads to Industry Collapse
AUSTRALIA - Warnings about the risks of abalone farming at sites on South Australia's remote Eyre Peninsula were ignored by Australian Bight Abalone, of which...

New Technology Detects Toxins in Shellfish Waters
SPAIN - Experts of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) devised a sensor with heightened sensitivity and a quick response that...

Shellfish Closure in the Annapolis Basin
CANADA - Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has advised the public that the harvesting of bi-valve molluscs of an area inside Annapolis Basin has been prohibited...

New Irish Abalone Farm Reveals Industry Potential
IRELAND - Ireland's first state of the art abalone farm has opened and will begin commerce with the Japanese market.

Australia's Largest Abalone Company in Deep Waters
AUSTRALIA - The directors of the Australian Bight Abalone Group today resolved to place the company into voluntary administration.

New Potential for Super-sized Abalone
AUSTRALIA - Designer abalone could be an option in the foreseeable future, thanks to a project associated with UQ's Heron Island Research Station.

Ocean Acidification Damaging Shellfish
US - Changes in ocean chemistry — a consequence of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human industrial activity — could cause US shellfish revenues to...

New UK Training Programmes for Bivalve Purification
UK - Seafish and the Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland (REHIS) have joined forces to create a new training programme in Bivalve Purification Operations....

US$50 Million Stimulus to Feed Farmed Fish
US - The United States is about to spend $50 million on fish food.

Shellfish Classification for Scotland Agreed
SCOTLAND, UK - The Food Standards Agency has agreed the 2009/10 classification areas for shellfish production in Scotland in accordance with European Union...

Shellfish Farming Falls Under Spotlight in Ipswich
IPSWICH, US - Roughly 40 residents packed into a recent Board of Selectmen subcommittee meeting to discuss shellfish farming in Ipswich waters.