seafood production Articles
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Estimating preferences for non-market attributes of aquaculture and sustainable seafood production: methods and empirical applications
If aquaculture is to promote sustainable seafood production, the public must be willing to accept associated tradeoffs. Tradeoffs may include impacts on a variety of environmental and social attributes. Public preferences for aquaculture may differ according to type of operation, species, region, and other factors. Stated preference methods can assist policymakers in designing balanced, ...
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Dried Seafood Global Market Report
Recent decades’ innovations in seafood drying technology, improvements in seafood drying machine, and incentives toward an increasingly globalized economy have radically transformed the world’s dried seafood trade. The required processing technology already exists to successfully convert the thousands of metric tons of bycatch that is annually dumped by trawlers and longline ...
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Bioaccumulation and distribution of perfloroalkyl acids in seafood products from Bohai Bay, China
Ten perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) were measured in the seafood collected from Bohai Bay, China, in 2010. The summed concentrations of the PFAAs were in the ranges of ND–194 and 4.0 to 304 ng/g dry weight for invertebrates and fish, respectively. The levels of perflurooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in the seafood were lower than those from North America, the Mediterranean ...
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A prawn in the game - Case Study
The UK’s demand for king prawns is, apparently, insatiable. Most have travelled, frozen, 6,000 miles from the Far East and Central America leaving a massive carbon footprint, but Great British Prawns is changing that. The company opened its first sustainable king prawn farm in the Scottish village of Balfron, Stirlingshire, in the summer of 2019 and is now supplying fresh prawns to hotels ...
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Blockchain in Supplychain Management to Come Up With End - to - End Traceability
With the world getting more and more modernized every single day, various sophisticated technologies rise and find paths to get over into the growing economy. Blockchain in supplychain management is the one among them that helps in introducing a connection between the market and the economy, thus contributing to global trading. It assists us in bringing a smoother economy ever by managing the ...
By TraceFood
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The status of USA's commercial fisheries and management and crystal-balling the future
Despite the enormity of the commercial fishing industry of the USA, the structure of the industry and various interactions are not known on a national basis. The US public wants seafood, but current domestic production capabilities appear to be inadequate to support the growing demand for seafood. Imports, particularly aquacultured products, are increasing and expected to further increase in the ...
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Incorporating ROS in Ice-Making Machines Extends Shipping Shelf Life of Produce, Seafood and Meat Products
M&R farms in Birmingham, Minnesota uses JC 9465 as a primary solution for their packing facility. They have also incorporated JC 9465 into their ice-making machines improving product shelf-life as well as eliminating biofilm. By injecting JC 9465 into their water lines supplying the ice machines, the ORP readings went up from 451 to 632. Once it had been converted to ice, the readings had ...
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A Forecast in Shrimp: The Future of Fresh and Frozen
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and intensified a number of trends in food, with big waves for the world of shrimp. Here is some of what we have seen. Sourcing and Storage: There has been greater demand for fresh, locally-produced food. Alongside that, there has been an increase in sales of frozen food and domestic freezers which have helped secure food supplies during lockdowns. ...
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200g -- 5kg Dry ice blocks- How useful in your life
Dry ice is a good cold insulated medium , it has kinds of type with different size , like small pellets , bullets , and blocks ; among them , dry ice block cooling performance is the best . So how does Dry ice block work ? At room temperature and pressure, dry ice directly sublimates into gas-CO2 without liquefication, absorbing a lot of heat and rapidly cooling the surrounding environment. ...
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Future Brief: Sustainable Aquaculture
Is sustainable aquaculture possible? Aquaculture is facing a new era of expansion in Europe. What are the environmental implications of this, and how can the sector expand sustainably? This Future Brief from Science for Environment Policy presents an overview of research into aquaculture’s impacts, and considers how it could develop in harmony with environmental goals. The EU’s Blue ...
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The big shrimp farming debate: clear-water v. biofloc
In recent years, the global market for seafood products, including fresh shrimp, has grown, alongside consumer awareness of and demand for sustainably-sourced produce. This has resulted in a shift from traditional pond culture of shrimp, to closed systems that are closer to market, feature enhanced biosecurity, have a minimal environmental impact, and result in improved shrimp production. A tale ...
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U.S. Farm-Raised Finfish and Shellfish
Seafood has long been recognized as an important component of a healthy diet. Seafood contains high quality, complete protein and an important array of nutrients, while it is low in calories, cholesterol, and saturated fats. The health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids found primarily in fish have been clearly documented. U.S. farm-raised seafood is an important center of the plate choice that can ...
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Expanding marine protected areas to restore fisheries
After World War II, accelerating population growth and steadily rising incomes drove the demand for seafood upward at a record pace. At the same time, advances in fishing technologies, including huge refrigerated processing ships that enabled trawlers to exploit distant oceans, enabled fishers to respond to the growing world demand. In response, the oceanic fish catch climbed from 19 million tons ...
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Land-based Aquaculture: Meeting the Challenge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
In 2015, all United Nations Member States agreed to 17 Global Goals, officially known as the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. These goals serve as a call to action aimed at ending poverty, fighting inequality and addressing the urgency of climate change, by 2030. They are part of a broader global movement encouraging all industries — including aquaculture — to adopt more ...
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Learning from past civilizations
To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early twenty-first century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond. As Jared Diamond points out in his book Collapse, some of the early societies that were in ...
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Does one of the world’s most abundant animals need protection from our appetite?
As demand grows and habitat disappears, scientists ponder tighter controls on the Antarctic krill harvest. Barely longer than your thumb, weighing under an ounce and nearly translucent, delicate crustaceans known as krill are vital to ocean ecosystems around the world. In the waters that encircle Antarctica, krill are an essential food source for penguins, baleen and blue whales (which can eat ...
By Ensia
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