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...

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...

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.

Aquaculture Research Receives Boost in Ohio
OHIO, US - At a time when some aquaculture research programs across the nation are struggling, the aquaculture program at Ohio State University’s South Centers...

Kona Kampachi Holds Answer to Sustaining Oceans
US - Kona Blue Water Farms have released an analysis arguing that sustainably maricultured fish actually have 60 times less ecological footprint on the ocean than...

Disease Tops Agenda at Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue
BOSTON, US - Significant progress has been made in the Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue with the presentation and discussion of the Technical Working Group reports on...

Catfish Convention Fishes Out Best Farmers
US - More than 250 catfish farmers from across the Southeast met here March 5-7 for the 2009 Catfish Farmers of America Annual Convention and Research Symposium,...

Japan's Sustainable Tuna Arrives in Virginia
US - Kindai bluefin tuna, said to be more sustainably raised than other farmed fish, is now being flown in to Washington from Japan.

Inland Cobia and Pompano: Future Foods for Florida
FLORIDA, US - An ongoing project in the US aims to bring the highly regarded salt water fishes - cobia and Florida pompano - to inland farms.

Destined for the US: Bad Chemicals in Chilean Salmon
US - The Pew Environment Group recently acquired documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealing that three Chilean salmon farming companies,...

Hubbs Proposes Offshore Aquaculture Project
US - Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute is proposing to establish the first commercial-scale, offshore aquaculture demonstration project in federal waters of the...

Self Cleaning Aquaculture and Floating Vegetation
US - The feasibility of using floating vegetation to remove nutrients from fishery wastewater is being tested by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

Meeting of Minds on Global Abalone Standards
WASHINGTON, DC, US - The development of global standards for certifying farmed abalone will be the focus of the next meeting of the Abalone Aquaculture Dialogue,...

Toxic Fish Tank to be Removed from Montana
MONTANA, US - A tank at the largest fish farm in Montana is to be removed because of fears that dangerous PCB compounds in its paint will affect citizens drinking...