Shellfish Farming News
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Investing in the future of B.C.s fish and seafood sector with seven new projects
In support of British Columbia’s fish and seafood sector, the Government of Canada’s minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, Hon. Bernadette Jordan, as well as the B.C. Parliamentary secretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Fin Donnelly, have announced CAD $7.9 million in funding for seven projects under the B.C. Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BCSRIF). ...
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Fish supplies face rising threat from algal blooms
Toxic algal blooms that can kill fish – and sometimes humans – cause severe economic losses and are an increasing danger to food supplies. The threat has increased dramatically, not because the quantity of algae is necessarily increasing, but because humankind is relying more and more on aquaculture to provide fish. There has been a 16-fold increase in fish farming since 1985. ...
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Jiangsu Province Farm is World`s First BAP-Certified Topmouth Culter and Oriental River Prawn Farm
Add two more species of finfish and shellfish to the list of species represented by the industry-leading Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program. China’s Jiangsu Kuntai Agriculture Development Co. Ltd. has earned BAP certification for its farm producing topmouth culter (Culter alburnus) and Oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense), the Global Aquaculture ...
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East Coast Shellfish Growers Newsletter
Check out the latest East Coast Shellfish Growers Association Newsletter Product Spotlight! Industrial Plankton produces photo bioreactors (PBRs) designed to grow algae for shellfish hatcheries. Our vision is to help stabilize the foundation of shellfish aquaculture by making the process of producing plankton more reliable, compact and bio-secure using technology. We love the shellfish industry ...
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Raincoast Education Society
The Raincoast Education Society presents The Magnificent Mollusks Speaker Series. March 9th the guest speakers will be J.P. Hastey & Angela Fortune of Nova Harvest Ltd. located in Bamfield BC. It will be an open discussion about opportunities, challenges, and the potential for shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia. J.P will also take the viewers on a behind the scenes tour of the ...
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Ferry Cove Hatchery - Hiring
Do you have phycology or hatchery experience? Would you like to work with Industrial Plankton’s algae photobioreactors? Now is your ...
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NOAA Selects Gulf of Mexico, Southern California as First Two Aquaculture Opportunity Areas
We have all seen over the last few months how the global COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted supply chains, including those for food and beverages. In response, several countries have made food security a priority as they prepare for future pandemics or other global challenges that may disrupt commerce and logistics. As part of that effort, the United States made some significant strides to ...
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Senators Stabenow, Murkowski Team Up to Reintroduce Bipartisan Food Supply Protection Act
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, reintroduced the Food Supply Protection Act with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to help protect the food supply after the COVID-19 crisis has put an unprecedented strain on farmers, workers, food banks, and families. “The COVID-19 crisis has continued to ...
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Aquaculture: Some facts and figures
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms, including fish, finfish, shellfish (mollusks and crustaceans), and aquatic plants in controlled or selected aquatic environments. Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, and protection from predators. Farming also implies individual or corporate ownership of ...
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USSEC Works with Philippines’ Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources on its Aquaculture Development Plan
USSEC recently met with the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) in Diliman, Quezon City to learn their plans and program for the country’s aquaculture sector over the next five years. The head of the Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Division presented the newly approved “Comprehensive National Fisheries Industry ...
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Taylor Shellfish First Farm in U.S. to Achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council Certification
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) announced that Taylor Shellfish Farms has become the first U.S. grower to achieve responsible aquaculture certification for a farming operation in Washington State. The Shelton, Wash. based company received ASC Bivalve Certification for its operation in the South Puget Sound basin, which comprises the Hood Canal and the area south of the Tacoma Narrows, ...
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Florida Sea Grant highlights aquaculture in new Florida Trend report
Aquaculture, the controlled production of seafood, ornamental fish and other aquatic life, is big business in Florida. In 2012, the state’s producers earned $70 million in cash receipts, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey. Worldwide, aquaculture is responsible for about half of all seafood consumed, so this emerging sector of Florida agricultural production holds great ...
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Shifts in Mediterranean fish farming increase pressure on wild fish stocks
Fish farming in the Mediterranean has increasingly shifted from producing fish such as grey mullet, which are herbivores near the bottom of the food chain, to species such as sea bass, which are predators. This ‘farming up’ the food chain requires wild fish to be caught to provide feed. A return to farming fish lower in the food chain would use marine resources more efficiently, a new ...
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Oyster imports bring alien ‘hitchhikers’ and disease
The future of oyster farming in Europe is threatened by disease. However, a recent study highlights the risk of importing oysters to improve or replace lost stock, as this could accidentally bring further disease and invasive species. The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), originally from East Asia, has been the main species of oyster farmed in Europe since the early 20th century. Populations ...
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Rethinking Fish Farming to Offset Its Public Health and Environmental Risks
As government agencies recommend greater consumption of seafood for its health benefits, a new analysis led by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future urges medical and public health professionals to consider the environmental and health impact of seafood sourcing, particularly aquaculture, or the farming of fish, shellfish and crustaceans. The paper appears in the July ...
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Fish farmed in the EU: a healthy, fresh and local alternative
Ladies and Gentlemen, I will be brief… I can see many of you are eyeing up the delicious samples on offer here and this is precisely the purpose today: showcase our "EU farmed fish"! I am delighted to be here today to highlight the benefits of eating, fresh, locally produced fish. In other words, fish farmed here in the EU. When I say "fish", I mean of course both finfish and shellfish. ...
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Increased Eelgrass in Long Island Sound is Good News for Fish and Wildlife
Between 2009 and 2012, eelgrass, an underwater plant that forms meadows that are ecologically important for fish and shellfish, increased by 4.5 percent in Long Island Sound, according to a recently released report by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS National Wetlands Inventory Program assessed 2012 aerial photography for eelgrass at 17 coves, embayments, harbors, and other ...
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Low discard Faroese cold water prawn fishery wins MSC certificate
The Faroese North East Arctic cold water prawn (Pandalus borealis) fishery has been MSC certified as a sustainable and well-managed fishery. The fishery certification was coordinated by Maresco A/S, a Danish company specialising in shellfish, and includes three Faroese vessels supplying around 4,500 MT of prawns from the Barents Sea and North East Arctic Ocean. Low bycatch and discards The ...
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Fisheries certification update: November 2013
Collectively, the fisheries certified since our last newsletter bring an estimated additional 880,000 tonnes of fish into the market with the potential to carry the MSC label. They include whitefish, shellfish, herring form several fisheries and toothfish. Whitefish certifications welcomed by buyers The Russian Sea of Okhotsk walleye pollock fishery, which provides fillets, surimi and roe for ...
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Dangerous Dioxins Found in Widely Used Herbicide 2,4-D
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, referred to as 2,4-D, is a common chlorophenoxy herbicide that is frequently used around the world as a plant growth regulator. In a recent investigation of 2,4-D in Australia, elevated levels of dangerous dioxins were detected in a generic version of 2,4-D. Dioxins are a group of chemically-related compounds that are found throughout the environment worldwide. ...
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