Fish Quality and Safety Report Published
GLOBAL - Global aquaculture production has grown rapidly over the last 50 years and it is generally accepted that there is limited potential to increase traditional fisheries since most fish stocks are well or fully exploited, according to market research...

Call for Funds to Fight Illegal Fishing
GLOBAL - The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called on donor countries for US$1 million to support a project designed to help developing countries deny port access to boats involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishin...

GAA Challenges Shrimp Labour Study
WORLDWIDE- The Global Aquaculture Alliance has challenged the authors of the recently released report on working conditions in shrimp-processing plants in Thailand and Bangladesh.

Abuse a Mainstay of Asia's Seafood Industry
WORLDWIDE - Workers in Southeast Asia's expanding shrimp industry suffer tremendous abuse and sometimes live virtual slavery, says a report released this week.

Learning from Success Stories
ASIA - The Network for Aquaculture Centres in Asia Pacific (NACA) is to document aquaculture success stories in a bid to help others see how aquaculture can mover to a more sustainable future.

Year-End Profits Will Spur-on Further Development
GLOBAL - Natural feed additives specialist Kiotech International reports a profit for 2007. Its the first year the business has shown profit since it became a public company in 1997 and proves that its acquisition of Agil just around 18 months ago, has...

Shifting Focus to South East Asia
GLOBAL - International production specialist, Cell Aquaculture has announced changes to its Board of Directors. The new line up will more accurately represent the Company's large-scale production interests in South-East Asia.

Stakeholder Comments Wanted on Global Farm Assurance Standard
GLOBAL - GLOBALGAP is lobbying the aquaculture industry for comments on the interim final version of its Control Points and Compliance Criteria for the new Aquaculture Base, Shrimp and Social Criteria for Shrimp Farming modules.

Combined Resources Bring Key Advantages to Global Aquaculture Sector
GLOBAL - The world's aquaculture market has a new leader in aquatic health. Schering Plough takes premier status, now that the acquisition of Organon Biosciences (Intervet) is complete and resources have been streamlined. It has announced a comprehensive...

Freshwater Aliens May be Safe, Says Scientist
WORLDWIDE - Freshwater fish can be introduced more safely than expected to new regions for farming with fewer than 10 percent damaging wildlife in their new homes, Rodolphe Gozlan, a French scientist who works at Bournemouth University in Britain.

Lessons from Cod Could Save Tuna
BOSTON - Continued mismanagement could force some tuna populations to quickly go the same way of cod, according to leading scientists.

Aquaculture Not Always a Poverty Solver
WORLDWIDE — Aquaculture in tropical coastal areas is not always a positive option. Although shrimp and fish farming is regarded as an environmentally friendly way to alleviate poverty this cultivation has negative consequences, says Daniel A. Bergquist...

Aquaculture Vaccines - 25 Years progress and a vision for the future
GLOBAL - The rapid progress in the development and delivery of fish vaccines for a wide range of species is now providing significant health and economic benefits to world aquaculture, says leading immunologist Professor Patrick Smith.

Standards for Tilapia Aquaculture Up for Discussion
WORLDWIDE - Draft standards for certifying tilapia aquaculture products, and a possible timeline for their introduction, will be mooted at WWF's Tilapia Aquaculture Dialogue on 27 February 2008.

People and Pollution Issues Mean Aquaculture Must Change
WORLDWIDE - Achiving sustainablity will mean dramatic change for the global aquaculture industry, says Greenpeace. Protecting the environment and the people involved in seafood farming are vital issues and need to be addressed.

Trout Market Mixed
GLOBAL - The European trout market was hoping for an increase in average trout prices during the latter half of 2007, as the industry went from a period of flat sales into one of short supply and heavy demand from smokehouses for the Christmas period....

Sea's bounty to science provides some great gifts
GLOBAL - The DNA from salmon sperm is fueling the world's first biological light-emitting diodes, used everywhere in electronic and digital devices.

UN Sea Law Needs Immediate Attention, says Conservation Group
GLOBAL - Twenty five years on from the launch of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the state of the world’s oceans has considerably deteriorated.

Aquaculture only way to meet global demands
GLOBAL - By 2030 an additional 37 million tonnes of fish per year will be needed to maintain current levels of fish consumption for an expanded world population. Because traditional capture fisheries have reached their maximum production levels, fish...

Why Food Production Is Big News
GLOBE - I was especially interested to hear Carr’s chief executive Chris Holmes describe the impact of the milk price rise that our poor struggling dairy farmers have finally managed to extract from the retailers. Actually, it is not the retailers at...

Buyers and suppliers to benefit from FOS web service
WORLDWIDE - The international sustainable seafood certification scheme, Friends of the Sea (FOS), has launched www.friendofthesea.com- the first online market where companies can offer, demand or search for...

China Leads World, but Latin American Industry is Booming
GLOBAL - Glitnir, the leading global supplier of financial services to the seafood industry, has released new reports on the Chinese and Latin American seafood industries. It follows hot on the heels of a report on Canada's seafood sector, published last...