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Welcome to this week's newsletter
Editorial: a Billion Dollar Bluefin Industry is Born
"The path is open to revolutionise the tuna industry," announced Wayne Knibb, professor of aquaculture genetics, after learning that efforts to produce the world-first spawning of captive southern bluefin tuna had been successful. The spawning at the Clean Seas Tuna facility in Arno Bay, near Port Lincoln in South Australia, has resulted in the production of tens of millions of tuna eggs and the prediction that a new, multi-billion dollar industry will emerge.
“This achievement is a world first, and a major stepping stone to presenting the world with a sustainable food resource for the future." Clean Seas Chairman Hagen Stehr AO, said. The news comes just one week after the World Wildlife Fund released an analysis showing that the mediterranean bluefin breeding population will disappear by 2012 under the current fishing regime.
Technology like this seems likely to keep tuna on our plates regardless of whether we can keep it in the oceans. The problem is that some in the industry may regard this as a solution to deteriorating stocks.
Adam Anson
We have 3 new features this week:
Global Standards for Sustainable Pangasius Farming
The recent explosion of pangasius farming in South East Asia is causing concern over environmental and social management. Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite, finds out how a new global set of standards aims to preempt any negative consequences of this boom.
Changing Compliance for Exported Fishery Products: a Developing Country Perspective
The fisheries sector in Tanzania has many challenges, such as maintaining market shares of products, little ability to control fish prices in foreign markets, and the high cost of modern technology in the fishing industry, write G.F. Nanyaro
Director of Fisheries, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania. This report was published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Mangrove : Species Diversity, Community Structure and Current Status
THAILAND - Mangroves are one among nature's amazing creations, for the reason that these plants are supremely equipped to survive and perform in the harsh inter-tidal zone of the coast where sea meets land, reports the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia Pacific.
» Kiwis Show Concern for Freshwater Environment
» Shellfish Conference for Blenheim
» EU Fisheries Sessions Begin Today
» EC Release Green Paper and Open Fish Debate
» SNP President Calls for End of EU Fisheries Role
» Minister Killeen: Green Paper Should Consider Coast
» EU Fisheries Fund Saves Almost 600 Scottish Jobs
» Pesticides Found to Endanger Salmon
» Aquaculture Design Wins Sustainability Competition
» California Takes First Step to Feed Antibiotic Ban
» Potential for Red Tide Outbreak in Maine
» Saving the Environment with 'Fish for Trees'
» NOAA to Oversee Obama's Aquaculture Guidelines
» Crackdown on Unapproved Salmon Farm Drugs
» Firm Spends $14 Million on Chilean Salmon Farms
» Mercury Labelling in Texas Gets Kona Blue Approval
» Canadian Eels Infected by Foreign Parasite
» Researcher Creates Supermale Bluegill
» Catfish Feed Deliveries
» New Guidelines for Aquaculture in Farms and Tanks
» A Modern Message for Indian Aquaculture
» Indian Fish Farms Get Intensive with $123 Million
» Seed Production Techniques Could Net Oyster Farms
» The Changing Face of ISA
» Norway and India Team Up on Disease Resistant Fish
» Vietnamese Catfish Pass Italian Safety Checks
» Mekong Catfish Prices up 20 Per Cent
» Viet Nam Successfully Farms Salmon
» Iranian Shrimp Market Opens to Chinese Exports
» World's First: Spawning of Captive Bluefin Tuna
» Clean Seas' Billion Dollar Babies
» Aquaculture Still Growing in New South Wales
» Seafish Welcomes Green Paper Reform
» SARF Symposium Seeks Sustainability in Aquaculture
» Fighting Salmon Disease with New Knowledge
» Climate Change: Acidic Oceans Pose Threat to Fish
» Scotland Stands Firm Against GM Foods
» How Aquaculture and Science Changed Nepal
» Chile Considers Algae and Bivalves as Alternatives
» Sindh Considers Aquaculture on Unproductive Lands
» WWF: First Draft of Global Pangasius Standards
» Skretting Reports Big Reduction in Salmon Fish Meal
» Aquaculture Dialogue to Set Trout Standards
That's all for this week!
Ed.
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