Canada Cuts Funds from Fisheries Research Centre
CANADA - Funding is about to be axed for an organization that for two decades has matched up researchers with the fishing industry to create new products and st...

Women Muted in P.E.I. Fishing Roles
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA - A new report suggests the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association needs to extend voting rights for female members, but the association says...

Funding Innovation in Quebec's Shellfish
QUEBEC, CANADA - Two innovative projects for improving the production and economic performance of Quebec's shellfish farming industry will receive the total sum...

Newfoundland Finds a Billion Dollars in Fish
CANADA - The Newfoundland and Labrador seafood industry experienced an excellent year of performance in 2008. The annual Seafood Year in Review report was released...

Genetics Tell the Secrets of Salmon Nemesis
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - New research is uncovering the genetic secrets of BC’s most notorious marine parasite.

Funding for Two New Aquaculture Projects in BC
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Two innovation projects designed to boost the productivity and economic performance of the shellfish aquaculture industry in B.C. have...

Call of Aquaculture Study Falls on Deaf Ears
CANADA - Although he won’t say it’s officially dead, newly-appointed Agriculture and Lands minister Ron Cantelon is looking beyond the study group he sat on to...

Success for First Generation of Farmed Yellowtail
GENERAL - Following the Australian company Clean Seas, Acuinor S.A. is the second aquaculture company in the world to reproduce yellowtail kingfish in captivity....

Atlantic Innovation Fund Gets Started
CANADA - Several major research projects involving the fishing and aquaculture industry were included in the latest projects funded in P.E.I. under the Atlantic...

First Nations Impressed By Aquaculture Experience
CANADA - Canadian group of First Nations Chiefs and delegates from Vancouver Island recently joined staff from Marine Harvest and Grieg Seafood to attend Norway’s...

Glancing Back at the History of Salmon Farming in B.C.
CANADA - Salmon farming started in British Columbia about 25 years ago, growing rapidly to become an important coastal industry. From the outset, it was embraced...

Polyculture Pioneers Seeks Sustainable Aquaculture
CANADA - A scientists from the University of Victoria is conducting research to devlop polyculture techniques for a self sufficient, resource recycling, aquaculture...