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Welcome to this week's newsletter
Editorial - Sustainability Much in the News
Sustainability issues seem to have dominated the news in the last week.
A new technique developed in Canada appears to offer potential for improving the sustainability of salmon farming. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is a simple idea, built on a complicated series of details. Its application to salmon farming is being investigated in the Bay of Fundy by researchers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the University of New Brunswick. The goal of IMTA is to recreate a balanced ecosystem within a fish farm.
Monterey Bay Aquarium in California has published a report to mark its 25th anniversary entitled Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood. It says that growing world demand for seafood could be damaging the oceans, but it also makes clear that all stakeholders – from politicians to producers and fishermen as well as researchers and consumers – now recognise the threat and the report says that new data indicate a much brighter future.
And finally, several international agencies and governments have been focussing on the future of the tuna, stocks of which are falling to dangerously low levels. New tuna farming enterprises have recently received approval in Malta and Hawaii. But at the close of the meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna meeting in South Korea, conservation groups described the agreed cuts in fishing quotas for the Southern Bluefin Tuna as 'too little, too late'.
On the other side of the world, the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna has been proposed for an international trade ban, so low have its stocks become.
Jackie Linden
We have 3 new features this week:
Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood
A new report from Monterey Bay Aquarium in California alleges that the world's growing demand for seafood could be damaging the oceans. It stresses, however, that there are new signs of hope, and new data point to a brighter future.
Group Approach to Shrimp Farming Achieves Sustainability
The group approach to inland shrimp farming can offer sustainability, as M. Kumaran describes using the example of a successful project in India for Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA).
A Day with the Algae Technicians
Lars Bannenberg of KSG Apeldoorn High School in the Netherlands and Cawthron Institute in New Zealand explains how micro-algae are grown at the Institute, and how culture methods are being improved. His article was published in New Zealand Aquaculture.
» Temanse Starts Contract Farm Project
» Welcome News from Stornoway Langoustine Fishery
» UK a Step Closer to Sustainable Future
» Aquaculture Group Celebrates 25 Years
» Marine Harvest Publishes Preliminary Q3 Results
» Quota Cuts for Southern Bluefin 'Insufficient'
» New FDA Plan to Restrict Oyster Consumption
» Catfish Processing Down Seven Per Cent
» Turning the Tide: The State of Seafood Report
» Louisiana Shrimp Threatened by Exotic Species
» Shell Donation to Support Marine Life Preservation
» Bid to Save Endangered Fish
» Concern over Low Water Oxygen Levels
» Food Bank Benefits from Excess Salmon
» Challenge to Removal of Salmon Protection Status
» Hawaii Approves First Bigeye Tuna Farm
» Killeen Welcomes New Package on EU Fisheries Control
» Workshops on Salmon Aquaculture
» Brescia Group Shows Interest in Chile's Salmon Industry
» Investment Encouraged in Those Who Farm
» New Technique Helps Salmon Farming Sustainability
» First Nations Call for Say in Salmon Regulation
» Mass Salmon Escape from BC Farm
» CMFRI Course in Fish Entrepreneurship
» Fish Population in HDR Down
» High Hopes For Shellfish Farm
» New Fisheries Body for Central Asia, the Caucasus
» Guyana Aquaculture Initiated with Tilapia Hatchery
» Fish International 2010 to Focus on Sustainability
» Genetic Tracking Offers Options for Tuna Sustainability
» Govt Offers Financial Boost for Aquaculture
» Government To Consider Tuna Industry Help
That's all for this week!
Ed.
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