Aquaculture News
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Could Oysters be used to clean up chesapeake bay?
Chronic water quality problems caused by agricultural and urban runoff, municipal wastewater, and atmospheric deposition from the burning of fossil fuels leads to oxygen depletion, loss of biodiversity, and harmful algal blooms. This nutrient pollution is prevalent in many coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems worldwide. Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America and although many ...
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Algae: 10 superstars with strategies for success
From the low points like the closure of the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Aquatic Species Program to highs like 2009′s “Summer of Algae”, aquatic organisms from cyanobacteria to macroalgae have maintained a hold over the imagination of a large cheering section of the biofuels industry, and indeed, the world. Lately, relentless television advertising from ...
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CSRminute: sustainability roadmap for hospitals launches online Hub; seafood watch app adds new feature, project fishmap
TheCSRminute is your daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsible news of the day. Our team of 3BL Media correspondents tracks the global world of corporate social responsibility to bring you coverage of the most important announcements, initiatives, issues, trends, ideas, and breaking ...
By 3BL Media
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Solazyme: they might be giants
Here’s the proposition: Two guys from the Bay Area come up with an idea to produce renewable fuel from algae in open ponds. It’s a common tale, and in the renewable fuels business it is too often a story with an unhappy ending. But it happens to be the beginning of Solazyme’s story too – one that is quietly acquiring the shape, if not quite yet the dimensions, of a Bill ...
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UNCF, college summit and the Darden Restaurants, Inc. foundation partner to build pipeline of college ready students
UNCF - the United Negro College Fund - the nation's largest and most effective minority education organization, and College Summit, the largest provider of college-going culture support in the US, have partnered with Darden and its family of restaurant brands - Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52 - to create the Darden "Recipe for ...
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Subaru joins forces with NW Oregon and SW Washington loaves & fishes centers for a `Subaru Meals On Wheels Day`
As part of the company's innovative 'Share the Love' program, Subaru of America's Portland office will join forces with the Portland metro and surrounding area Subaru dealers to support the northwest Oregon and southwest Washington Loaves & Fishes Centers for a "Subaru Meals on Wheels Day." The Share the Love Event runs through January 4 and Subaru donates $250 for every new Subaru vehicle ...
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OriginOil Announces Successful First Phase of Commercial Pilot Program
Pilot Partner MBD Energy Praises OriginOil Team on Expertise and System Operation LOS ANGELES - OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced the successful completion of the first phase of its commercial pilot program, earning high praise for quality and ...
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Satellites help Colombian fishermen chase fish
Fishermen in Colombia will be able to tap into the latest satellite information to chase shoals of fish in their depleted fishing grounds. Using satellites from NASA — the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration — and the European Space Agency, researchers from the National University of Colombia identified chlorophyll hotspots, which indicate the presence of the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Ocean acidification threatens fisheries, says UNEP
The oceans are acidifying at probably the fastest rate for 65 million years — with unknown implications for the three billion people who depend on fish for protein, a report released at the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 16), in Mexico has said. Rising CO2 emissions, a quarter of which eventually dissolve in the oceans to produce carbonic acid, have caused a 30 per cent drop in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Farming in cities could help feed the world
With traditional food production under threat from climate change, we should switch from agriculture to cell culture, says Lucía Atehortúa. If climate change begins to limit the global production of food and energy crops, it will be necessary to develop a new system of food production. Imagine agriculture in small spaces, using high-tech tools such as photo-bioreactors, generating ...
By SciDev.Net
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OriginOil Selected to Help Build New Advanced Algae Center in New Mexico
Former DOE Aquatic Species Program Site Will Enable Commercial Scale Testing for Algae-to-oil Industry. OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to transform algae, the most promising source of renewable oil, into a true competitor to petroleum, today announced that it has been selected to help build a new Advanced Algae Center devoted to algae commercialization. ...
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Algal Biomass Organization Publishes First Descriptive Language Guidelines for the Algae Industry
Document Intended to Remove Confusion, Increase Cohesion Among Experts Evaluating Algae Technology MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the algae industry, today released its "Algal Industry Minimum Descriptive Language" document -- the first attempt at establishing a "common language" for the algae industry. The document, which is intended to help ...
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Academy sports + outdoors launches 9th annual holiday Bike Donation
Academy Sports + Outdoors today kicked off its 9th annual youth bike donation program. Each year, at least one store in every market where Academy Sports + Outdoors does business donates boys' and girls' bikes and helmets to select schools. Over the last decade, this donation has grown to more than 60 separate events in the Southeast. Each bike donation event includes 30 bikes and helmets (15 ...
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Pew: Governments Incapable of Managing Tuna
Shark protections important, but not enough PARIS - Dr. Susan Lieberman, director of international policy for the Pew Environment Group, issued this statement today in response to decisions made at this year's meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. "ICCAT member governments today adopted measures to protect oceanic whitetip and hammerhead sharks, but ...
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`Wonder food` spreads to middle east
A nutritious blue-green algae, known as spirulina, has been added to school meals in Jordan to combat chronic malnutrition and anaemia among children. Almost one in ten Jordanian children suffer from chronic malnutrition, or long-term protein or energy deficiency, while a third are anaemic, according to a survey by the Jordanian Department of Statistics (DOS) made public in March. The ...
By SciDev.Net
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Scientists question fisheries health test
The findings – published this week in Nature – followed an examination of whether changes in fishery catches reflect changes in the structure of marine food webs, and therefore are a suitable guide to assess the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystem health. CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship scientist, Dr Beth Fulton, and Dr Sean Tracey from the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries ...
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Pew Calls for Strong, Immediate Action to Protect Tuna, Sharks
Mismanagement Fails Atlantic Fish and Fishermen PARIS - As the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) begins in Paris, the Pew Environment Group is urging ICCAT member nations to create spawning ground sanctuaries for Atlantic bluefin tuna, suspend this imperiled fishery, strengthen conservation measures for sharks and stop illegal fishing. ...
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Protecting Whales From the Sky: EcoHealth Alliance`s Annual Aerial Surveys of Endangered Right Whale Populations
Getting a bird's eye view of North Atlantic right whales in a bid to save them from extinction; Charleston, S.C. survey flights from November 15, 2010 through April 15, 2011; St. Simon's Island, Ga. Survey flights from December 31, 2010 through March 31, 2011 NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2010 - EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust), is gearing up for the organization's annual aerial surveys for the ...
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Game development-based education gets another lift with latest AMD Foundation grant to institute of play
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD Foundation, in support of AMD Changing the Game, has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Institute of Play for the creation of a social impact game community within the Gamestar Mechanic game development platform. Gamestar Mechanic, published through a partnership between Institute of Play and E-Line Media, is a new, free, game-based digital learning platform ...
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EPA Denies Petition that sought a Ban on Lead in fishing gear (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition calling for a ban on the manufacture, use and processing of lead in fishing gear. In a letter to the petitioners, EPA indicated that the petitioners have not demonstrated that the requested rule is necessary to protect against an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, as required by the Toxic Substances ...
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