Cod with Personal Identity Numbers
NORWAY - There is a big baptism party at the Norwegian Cod Breeding Centre in Tromsø this autumn as 30,000 cod juveniles receive their own personal identity num...

Greenwater Boosts Prawn Yield
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM - Rearing freshwater prawns in "greenwater" produces a higher survival rate than raising them in freshwater without using a biofilter, an expert...

Farmed Fish Invited to Come Dancing
SCOTLAND - Glasgow-based New Zealander Sunil Kadri has scooped the O2 X Male Entrepreneur of The Year Award in London recently. Co-founder of Optoswim Technologies,...

China-Uganda Aquaculture Project Launched
UGANDA - The Uganda and Chinese government have joined forces to build an agricultural technology demonstration centre at Kajjansi Aquaculture Research and Development...

Freshwater Prawn in Ohio Aquaculture
US – On a recent cloudy morning at Ohio State University’s South Centers at Piketon, a large group of visitors watched curiously as researchers and volunteers netted...

AquaChile Invests to Promote Chile's Salmon Health
CHILE - AquaChile has announced that it will invest US$ 11 million in a land-based system to produce healthy salmon eggs and fish for the local market to reduce...

Ultrasonic Tags to Estimate Mortality Rates
Making good management decisions rests in large part on understanding the mortality of fish species – how many fish die each year as a result of natural causes and...

DIOBAS Claim Breakthrough in Cod Rearing Research
GLOBE - After 16 years of intensive research, DIOBAS claim they have found a completely new way to rear cod in a controlled freshwater environment at any location...

Go-ahead for Salmon Nursery
SCOTLAND - A community owned fish farm on the island of Out Skerries has been given the go-ahead for a small salmon nursery at West Voe.

BFAR Sets up Industrial Aquaculture Centres
PHILIPPINES - The Philippines Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has set up two aquaculture centres in Sorsogon province.

Scientists Manipulate Cod Spawning Cycle
AUSTRALIA - Researchers at Deakin University's Warrnambool campus in Victoria has successfully manipulated the breeding cycles of cod to enable on-demand produc...

Growth and Survival Trial Sees Promising Results
ACHOTINES BAY, PANAMA - On the final day of the IATTC Workshop John Hutapea and I collected and collating the data from the last trial, being a growth and survival...

Walling Issues Begin to Reveal Themselves
ACHOTINES BAY, PANAMA - As the IATTC Workshop began to close, Alex Mühlhölzl, Oceanic Tuna Limited, stayed behing to take a closer look behind the scenes at Achotines...

Fishing for Broodstock
ACHOTINES BAY, PANAMA - Today was the first day fishing for broodstock, and it was my group’s day in the boat, with my group partner being Dr Gavin Partridge from...

Multi-Trophic Aquaculture Project Wins Award
CANADA - Dr. Thierry Chopin, from the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, and Dr. Shawn Robinson, from Fisheries and Oceans Canada St. Andrews Biological...

Cod Larvae Strive on Partially Digested Proteins
NORWAY - Farmed cod and halibut larvae require live feed the first days after hatching before they can eat dry feed. This is a vulnerable period for the larvae....

Farming Up the Food Web in the Mediterranean
GENEREAL - As overfishing has depleted larger fish, or those from higher tropic levels, the commercial fishing industry has been turning to catching species...

Scientists Discover Whitebait Can Climb Ropes
NEW ZEALAND - In what is believed to be a New Zealand first, Environment Waikato scientists may have found a clever way to overcome resource consent barriers for...

VHS Virus Infects Fish via Their Gills
NORWAY - Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) is a highly contagious disease of rainbow trout in fresh water, causing great economic loss in the European trout farming...

Canada Funds Deep Sea Mussel Culture
CANADA - Canadian ministers today announced $266,604 in funding for early commercialization of submersible technology that will enable development of deep water...

Obstacles to Overcome Before Clean Seas Commercialise Bluefin
AUSTRALIA - About 250 fingerlings have been kept from this year's trial breeding programme of Clean Seas Tuna. Whilst the company has overcome many problems there...

Bahrain Expresses Interest in Big Shrimp Investment
BAHRAIN - Bahrain recently expressed interest to pour $12 million investment in shrimp production at the Carmen Integrated Aquaculture Park, provincial fishery officer...

Timing Is Everything for North Atlantic Shrimp
US - Even for Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), which support commercial fisheries worldwide, timing is everything in life.

Whole Foods to Source all Catfish from One Place
US - Carolina Classics Catfish, recently became Whole Foods Market's exclusive source for farm-raised channel catfish.

Change Coming to Danish Fisheries Management
DENMARK - A change in management of fisheries is essential, says the Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Eva Kjer Hansen