Unregulated Fish Farms Threaten Salmon Production
US - During this year's Global Week of Action, a week devoted to farmed salmon awareness, the Pew Environment Group raised concern about the creation of...

Locally Produced Seafood A Possibility?
US - Attemping to produce freshwater prawns at the University of Missouri (MU, Ray Wright hopes to encourage local seafood production.

New Benchmark for American Aquaculture
US - The American aquaculture industry has been given a new sustainability benchmark.

Contamination of Fish in US Lakes and Reservoirs Revealed
US - A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 US stat...

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...

Proposal to Halt Raw Oyster Ban
US - Efforts to thwart a federal plan to ban the sale of fresh oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months gained momentum in the US Senate...

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries Sales Fall
US - HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, an all natural integrated aquaculture and aquatic product processing company, including fish byproduct and personal healthcare...

Inmates Try Hand At Shrimp Farming
US - Colorado Correctional Industries managers are hoping it does not take a big product to yield big profits as the inmate work programme delves into its newest...

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...

Alabama Bans Asian Catfish for Contamination
US - A stop sale order on imported catfish and basa product from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, China and Vietnam has been re-imposed by the State of Alabama.

New Merck Company Begins Operations
US - Merck has outlined its global plans following the completion of Merck's merger with Schering-Plough Corporation announced this week. Raul E. Kohan has been...

Scientists Unlock Mystery of the Queen Conch
US - For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and...

Salmon Spawning Efforts Complete
US - Fisheries crews have completed an annual salmon spawning operation on Lake Sakakawea after surpassing a 700,000-egg goal.

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...

N Atlantic Fish Shift with Changing Ocean Temperature
US - About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades,...

Foodservice Achieves Second Sustainable Certificate
US - Foodservice has been awarded its second sustainable seafood certification by Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA).

Catfish Centre of Focus at Southern Food Event
US - The Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) and The Catfish Institute (TCI) recently partnered for the seventh annual Southern Foodways Symposium in Oxford, Mississippi...

Catfish Farming Co Promotes Farming
US - Harvest Select Catfish has initiated a campaign to promote the industry and employment opportunities nationwide.

HQ Sustainable Receives Certification for Tilapia
US - HQ Sustainable Maritime says it is the first company in its sector to receive Globalgap Standard Certification for its tilapia.

Law Centre Sets up Aquaculture Reading Room
US - The National Agricultural Law Center has set up its Aquaculture Reading Room, reflecting the growing importance of this sector.

FDA Oyster Proposal Opposed
MISSISSIPPI, US - Representative Gene Taylor has written a letter to the Food and Drug Administration to oppose their plans to require raw oysters to undergo...

NOAA, FDA Combine Resources on Seafood Inspection
US - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have unveiled an inter-agency agreement today to...

Hopes Raised in MA for New Mussel Fishery
MASSACHUSETTS, US - The region's first experimental blue mussel farm began operating in waters off Cape Higgon in Chilmark this week.

Prawns behind Bars
US - Inmates in a Colorado prison are benefiting from an initiative to set up a shrimp farm alongside an existing tilapia enterprise.

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...