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Welcome to this week's newsletter
We have 2 new features this week:
Is the UK Trout Industry Ready for Welfare Assessment?
By Craig MacIntyre and Jimmy Turnbull, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling and published by CEFAS Finfish News - Issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007
Shrimp Production: China and Japan 2007 Annual Reports
Latest USDA FAS reports from the China and Japan plus previously published reports from many other countries.
 Norway
Meal and oil yield best profits
NORWAY - Producers of fishmeal and oil achieved the best profitability in the Norwegian fishing industry in 2006.
 United Kingdom
Decline is over, sights set on quality growth
SCOTLAND - Salmon production in Scotland is rising and looks set to increase this year.
Clean Seas Tuna UK bound
UK - Kingfish from Cleans Seas Tuna's operations at Fitzgerald Bay on Eyre Peninsula lands on the shelves of Sainsbury's supermarkets.
Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management
SCOTLAND - The ACFM report issued today by the International Commission for the Exploration of the Seas gives the scientific advice for a range of fish stocks of importance to the Scottish fishing industry.
New survey reveals attitudes to fish farming in Scotland
UK - More people in the Western Isles favour an expansion of the salmon farming industry than those in any other region of Scotland, according to an EU funded survey.
Could exotic fish provide economies of scale for struggling Scots farmers?
UK - Where there's warm water there's brass.
Russian first for Salmon breeder
UK - A Scottish-based salmon breeder has despatched the first ever delivery of salmon smolts into Russia from anywhere in the world.
 Canada
Environment Canada says no way of knowing what caused fish kills
PEI - There is no way of knowing what killed thousands of fish last summer in two of Prince Edward Island's most pristine rivers, an Environment Canada official said Monday.
Judge Upholds Acquittal Of Salmon Escape
CANADA - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has tossed out the Crown's appeal of the acquittal of a Vancouver Island fish farm charged in the accidental release of Atlantic salmon three years ago.
 Australia
Clean Seas Tuna strengthens aquaculture interests
AUSTRALIA - Clean Seas Tuna Ltd is to buy the Stehr family's private aquaculture business, Clean Seas Aquaculture Growout Pty Ltd.
Minister allows fish traps to reduce feral redclaw population
AUSTRALIA - Fisheries Minister Jon Ford has granted an exemption to Western Australia’s fish traps ban to help recreational fishers effectively remove redclaw from Lake Kununurra.
 Chile
Marine Harvest cuts harvest targets due to Chilean fish disease
CHILE - Norwegian-based fish farmer Marine Harvest ASA has cut its 2007 harvest estimate to 335,000-345,000 tonnes of gutted weight from the previous figure of 370,000-390,000 tonnes.
 United States
US collaboration helps Indian farmers meet World standards
WASHINGTON - A growing agricultural collaboration between the United States and India is helping Indian farmers boost their output and meet international export standards so that India can compete more effectively in world agricultural markets.
Aquaculture food safety workshop
US - Experts from around the world will travel to Honolulu next week for a workshop designed to help the local aquaculture industry produce safer and better quality products.
State places caveat on fish consumption
US - State health officials used to say that any Alaskan could eat an unlimited amount of fish from state waters without a risk of heavy metal contamination. But their advice has changed.
Meeting on aquaculture zones draws large crowd
PAINTER - A proposed state regulation to protect aquaculture on the Eastern Shore of Virginia drew a standing room only crowd to a mid-day meeting at the Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center Wednesday.
Crunch time on Eastern Shore for shellfish plan
VIRGINIA - Two of the biggest economic engines on Virginia's Eastern Shore these days - shellfish farming and waterfront development - are headed for a showdown
Advocates Join Together In Saving Shore Clam Population
DELMARVA - Elected officials, aquaculturalists, the local advocacy group Save Our Necks and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation all are jockeying for membership on a state committee that will determine regulations to protect the Eastern Shore's massive clam industry from pollution generated by residential development.
Study finds fish suffer insomnia
US - Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying the mysteries of sleep have discovered a new model for their research — and it's swimming around their laboratory.
 Viet Nam
Seafood exports may exceed $3.6 billion target
VIET NAM - The Vietnamese Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP) said the country’s seafood export revenue this year may exceed a US $3.6 billion target while domestic firms are scrambling to meet skyrocketing demands for Christmas and the New Year.
Viet Nam - Mozambique aquaculture exchange
HA NOI - Viet Nam will send aquaculture experts to Mozambique in 2008 and in return welcome specialists from the African country.
Land Prices Jump As Aquaculture Thrives
VIET NAM - The price of river-bank land in southern Tra Vinh Province has jumped by three fold as catfish breeders buy rice fields and market gardens for aqua culture.
 India
Commercial production of tiger shrimp seeds begins
INDIA - The Fisheries College and Research Institute has commenced commercial production of seeds of tiger shrimps on its Maritech Research Centre campus situated at Tharuvaikulam near here.
Subsidies to boost marine exports
INDIA - The Marine Products Exports Development Authority (MPEDA), to boost marine exports and earn precious foreign exchange for the country, will extend subsidies to a host of marine related activities, its Chairman G Mohan Kumar said.
 Pakistan
EU continues ban on seafood and market suffers
PAKISTAN - The government is unable to restart exports of seafood to the European Union (EU). The EU is a big market for Pakistani seafood and an expected loss may be about $ 47 to $ 50 million this year. Earlier, the MFD sent the plan to the EU, but it was rejected for various reasons.
 Bangladesh
EU team to visit Khulna shrimp centres
BANGLADESH - Exporters of frozen shrimp are making preparations to welcome a four-member EU inspection team that will visit shrimp cultivation and processing centres in Khulna and Bagerhat districts on October 21 and 22.
 Malaysia
Forget The Seas, Fish In Your Backyard
MALAYSIA - Aquaponics may sound like a fishy pursuit but it could be the solution to the problems of fishermen and farmers, Chok Suat Ling discovers
 Philippines
Crab and prawn are top resources for town
THE PHILIPPINES - Crab (alimango) and prawn (sugpo) distinguish themselves as Orani's top aqua-marine resources which has beneficially and continually boosted the town's local economy for years because of their export qualities.
Industrialization, tourism threaten Davao Gulf
DAVAO CITY - Industrialization and tourism are emerging threats to the fishing industry in the Davao Gulf area, an official of Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said.
 New Zealand
Australian AVG virus threatens NZ paua
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand paua could soon be under threat from a herpes-like virus that was decimating the Victorian abalone industry, Southern Paua Management Council deputy chairman Jeremy Cooper said.
 Ireland
The Increasing Value Of Fish Farming
IRELAND - Mr John Browne TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) today received the “Status of Aquaculture Report - 2006”
 Israel
AG Mazuz rejects PMO petition to delay removal of Eilat fish cages
ISRAEL - Attorney General Menachem Mazuz announced Sunday he rejects an additional request from the Prime Minister's Office to put off the removal of fish cages from the Eilat Gulf by two years, despite a cabinet decision two years ago stating that they must go within three years.
 Taiwan, Province of China
University to assist in Saudi aquaculture project
TAIWAN - National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan City in southern Taiwan will sign a contract with an American venture Tuesday to assist in developing aquaculture off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, a spokesman for the school said yesterday.
 South Africa
Danes arrive with much to show
SOUTH AFRICA - Denmark will present a pavilion comprising seven companies at the forthcoming Fish Africa/Aquaculture Africa 2007 Exhibition, which runs at Cape Town‘s International Convention Centre from 24-26 October
 Malta
Twinning project with Spain
MALTA - The Rural Affairs and the Environment Ministry is working with Spain’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Ministry on associations of producers in the fisheries sector.
That's all for this week!
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