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Welcome to this week's newsletter
We have 2 new features this week:
Medium-term challenges and constraints for aquaculture
By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and extracted from The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006
US Aquaculture Outlook Report - April 2007
By U.S.D.A., Economic Research Service - This article is an extract from the April 2007: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook Report, highlighting the aquaculture Industry data.
 Norway
Lightly salted saithe fillets to Spain
NORWAY - Seafood-consuming Spaniards can have more products from which to choose. A new research project will study the market possibilities for frozen, lightly salted saithe in Spain.
Greece's Nireus acquires 17.9 pct of Norway's Marine Farms
NORWAY - Nireus announces the acquisition of 17.9% of the Norwegian Company Marine Farms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company said it acquired 6,557,497 shares based on the closing price April 16th of 23 NOK (2.85 €) per share.
Norway faults fish farms for 1.2 million escapes
OSLO - Norway faulted about 50 fish farming companies on Wednesday for escapes by 1.2 million salmon, cod and trout last year in a new bid to put pressure on firms to tighten their nets.
 Canada
Economic Benefit and Public Support for Aquaculture Confirmed
CANADA - A recent public opinion poll undertaken by Ipsos Reid on behalf of the BCSFA shows increasing support for sustainable aquaculture in British Columbia. A majority of respondents (65%) said they support the development of a sustainable salmon farming sector in BC; and less than one per cent identified salmon farming as the top environmental issue facing BC today.
Friends of Wild Salmon lobby against fish farms
CANADA - Friends of Wild Salmon will be putting ads in major newspapers across B.C. to press the province not to allow further development of fish farms in northern waters.
The unofficial freeze on new farms killed the Englewood plant in Port McNeill
CANADA - The closure of the Englewood fish processing plant, Port McNeill’s largest employer, has focussed attention on what many are complaining is an unwritten, bureaucratic moratorium on salmon-farming expansion.
Sea lion deaths prompt push to move fish farms inland
CANADA - After the recent drowning death of 51 sea lions, which trapped in the nets of a Tofino, B.C., salmon farm, is a fish-tank on dry land the way to go?
 Philippines
Pollution threatens Bulacan aquaculture industry
PHILIPPINES - Pollution along Bulacan's major waterways is threatening the multi-million peso aquaculture industry in the province coastal areas, stakeholders disclosed on Sunday.
 United Kingdom
Fish farming must move offshore
UK - The aquaculture industry is preparing itself for major changes with the unveiling of plans for a technologically advanced fish farm of the future at a conference in Edinburgh.
Capital event to unveil farm of the future
UK - The high-tech offshore fish farm of the future, which will be packed with new engineering innovation, will be unveiled at a major conference in Edinburgh this week.
Salmon Farm Awards Finalists' Shortlist
SCOTLAND - Judges of The Crown Estate’s awards scheme to recognise innovation and best practice in Scottish salmon farming have announced a shortlist of finalists.
Off to expo to sell our fish
UK - Shetland seafood firms will gather together in force next week to attend the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.
'Aquaculture' phenomenon emerging
UK - A new agricultural revolution "of global importance to humankind" is emerging based on aquatic animal and plant life, experts have said.
 Brunei Darussalam
Invest in fisheries, entrepreneurs told
BRUNEI - The government yesterday enticed young entrepreneurs to venture into aquaculture, seafood processing and fisheries eco-tourism, saying the fisheries sector offers opportunities for investors.
 Malaysia
Sixty-One Areas Suitable For Aquaculture
KUALA LUMPUR - The Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Ministry has identified 61 areas covering 36,743 hectares as suitable for aquaculture projects nationwide.
 United States
The difference between sardines and farmed salmon
US - Sardines or swordfish? Pacific or Atlantic halibut? Farmed or wild-caught sturgeon?
Aquaculture bill introduced
US - U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez applauded the announcement
by Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) that he
would introduce a bill, at the request of the Administration to help establish an offshore
aquaculture industry.
Managers speculate effects of cold winter on salmon survival
US - Fishery managers do not know for sure how this long, cold winter and slow start to spring will affect salmon numbers over the next few years, but they have a good idea of the possibilities based on past data.
Terrific tilapia
US - It wasn't too many years ago when tilapia made a quiet move into local restaurants. No fanfare. It just simply began appearing as an entree suggestion in the fish-seafood listings.
Oregon Governor looking to expand aquaculture off the Oregon coast
US - Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski instructed the Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC) in a letter yesterday to devise over the next year a state proposal for a network of marine reserves along the Oregon coastline, in addition to examining efforts to accommodate wave energy production and aquaculture in Oregon.
Bristol Bay invests in fish processor
US - Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp. will buy a 50 percent share of Seattle-based fish processor Ocean Beauty Seafoods Inc., the companies just announced.
Big push to expand aquaculture
US - Offshore fish farms could be down in the deep within two years if legislation authorizing the new industry gets the go ahead from Congress - and according to industry insiders, it is expected to pass easily.
Fish farms in federal waters? An environmental vs. fiscal battle
US - Local fishing advocates are split over whether a federal push to encourage fish farming in American waters would help recovering stocks or would be an environmental and navigational danger.
 Nepal
Rainbow Trout Fish Farming
NEPAL - Fish were the first vertebrate that appeared on earth. There are almost 25 thousand types of fishes and Rainbow Trout is one among them. Scientifically, it is known as Oncorhynchus mykiss. Very few people know about it, but, at the same time, farming of this special rainbow colored fish has already begun as the cold-water fish culture in the mid hills of Nepal.
 Pakistan
Japan to support drip irrigation
LAHORE - Japanese Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka has assured Pakistan of Tokyo’s full support in implementing the drip irrigation system and maintenance of quality standards in fish farming.
 New Zealand
Sanford warns of disappointing first half profit
NEW ZEALAND - Fish exporter Sanford warned of a disappointing first half result, after a high New Zealand dollar ate into profit and weaker United States markets dampened sales.
MFish working through backlog
NEW ZEALAND - The Ministry of Fisheries is getting on top of a backlog of permits that has long been frustrating Marlborough's marine farmers.
 India
Model fish markets to spread fins in Haryana
INDIA - to give boost to aquaculture in the state, the Haryana Fishery Department will set-up model fish markets in Bahadurgarh and Gurgaon districts of Haryana.
Indian Farmers demand shrimp policy
INDIA - Shrimp farmers have demanded a policy for development over 52,000 hectares of land along the coastal belt in Surat and Bharuch districts for shrimp farming.
 Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka firms plans $200m shrimp farms in Nigeria
SRI LANKA - Sulalanka Nigeria Ltd, said it has concluded plans to lead a consortium of foreign firms, based in Sri Lanka to invest about $200 million in the nation’s aquaculture shrimp farm, in southwestern part of the country.
 Italy
UN Agency To Establish Guidelines To Certify Fish
ROME - Where did that shrimp scampi you're about to tuck into come from? Do you know? Was a sea turtle accidentally killed when the shrimp were netted? Were the shrimp grown in a pond where once a biodiverse mangrove swamp stood?
 Chile
Chile’s Salmon and Trout Sales Continue to Boom
CHILE - Chile’s farmed firm producers are celebrating their latest export figures. Chile’s aquaculture industry (salmon, and to a lesser degree trout) continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
Company news
First and only catfish antibiotic approved for Columnaris
US - Schering-Plough Animal Health Corporation has introduced AQUAFLOR®-CA1 (florfenicol), the first and only in-feed antibiotic conditionally approved for the control of mortality in catfish due to columnaris disease associated with Flavobacterium columnare.
That's all for this week!
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