aquaculture development News
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New Aquaculture Licensing in British Columbia to Improve Business Planning and Encourage Investments in Sustainable Practices
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced today that the Department will be implementing multi-year licensing for aquaculture operators in British Columbia. The changes will provide the industry with more operational certainty and longer term planning capacity while allowing them to invest in sustainable practices. Aquaculture owners and operators will still have to ...
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USSEC Holds Aquaculture Meetings in Morocco
USSEC recently organized the first meetings on aquafeed in Morocco. These one-on-one visits with operation managers focused on the use of U.S. soybean protein concentrates (SPC), soybean meal, and lecithin in aquafeeds. USSEC consultant and aquafeed expert Tim O’Keefe presented the benefits of sound aquaculture based on sustainable feed resources, highlighting the importance of U.S. soy ...
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Shaping today’s farmers though smarter additions: Aquaculture - the new addition to mixed farming
Aquaculture production accounts for 30, 000 mt (19%) of fish supply in Zambia, capture fisheries supplies 75,000 mt (47%) and 55,000 mt (34%) from imports (as at 2015). Zambia’s fisheries produce approximately 70,000 metric tons of fish per year, amounting to over 3% of Zambia’s GDP. Over 85% of this production comes from captured fisheries and over 10% from the new implementation ...
By VUKA Group
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Environment: new guidelines for aquaculture and nature protection
The Commission is issuing new guidelines to improve understanding of how aquaculture can be carried out inside Natura 2000, the EU-wide network of protected natural areas. The guidelines explain how best to ensure that activities related to aquaculture are compatible with EU nature legislation and Natura 2000 provisions in particular. They emphasize the significance of the aquaculture sector for ...
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European Union, Guardian newspaper, Indian NGO win FAO awards
The European Union (EU) and British newspaper The Guardian have won FAO awards, the EU for a €1 billion initiative in response to the food price crisis in 2008-2011, and The Guardian, for improving worldwide understanding of development issues. The EU shares its award with Indian NGO Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), honoured for its innovative and dedicated efforts to lift ...
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Disease threatens aquaculture in developing world
Disease may challenge the ability of fish farming to feed the growing human population even as wild fish stocks decline and climate change hampers food production from other sources, a study shows. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector in the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with 90 per cent of production coming from the developing world, where it makes a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Indonesia, FAO to strengthen fisheries and aquaculture cooperation
Indonesia and FAO will strengthen cooperation in the field of marine affairs, fisheries and aquaculture under an agreement signed here today. The three-year Memorandum of Agreement, which sets up a framework for future joint activities in those sectors, was signed by Indonesian Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo and by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, ...
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USDA Seeks Research Grants to Develop U.S. Aquaculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing in aquaculture development. USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is seeking research grant funding applications for projects to support an environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture industry in the U.S. and generate new science-based information and innovation to address industry constraints. Although ...
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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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Timor-Leste embarks on fish farming for food security
Timor-Leste has embarked on a national fish farming programme in a bid to fight malnutrition and reduce poverty, its government has announced. The national aquaculture development strategy, a combined effort with WorldFish, a CGAIR Consortium member, aims to secure a stable source of food throughout the country and to stimulate economic growth. The impoverished South-East Asian country has ...
By SciDev.Net
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ASF statement on revised NL aquaculture policy and procedure manual
"Newfoundland and Labrador's updated Aquaculture Policy and Procedures Manual was released on September 25th with some revisions made as recently as November 4th. While the changes to policy and procedures will ensure more timely public reporting of events like Mowi’s recent mass die off, and will help government collect more information about the industry, upon initial review of the ...
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FQSA and ASF Support Quebec Government in regulating salmon egg import
The Quebec Atlantic Salmon Federation (Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique – FQSA) is pleased with the measures instituted by Quebec’s department of forestry, wildlife and parks, i.e. the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs (MFFP). Since June 10th of this year, the resulting amendment of section 28 of the Regulation ...
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South Korea and FAO team up to promote sustainable fisheries
The government of South Korea and FAO have agreed to work closely together to promote responsible fishing and aquaculture in the developing world. South Korea's Vice-Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, Jae Hak Son, and FAO Assistant Director-General Maria Helena Semedo signed a Memorandum of Understanding today agreeing to work together to build the capacity of developing countries to address key ...
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USSEC Emphasizes In Pond Raceway System Application in Vietnam
Vietnam’s aquaculture industry is currently facing several natural resource issues such as water and energy, as well as environmental issues, including fishpond effluent treatment. These problems hold back the country’s aquaculture industry development. USSEC Vietnam emphasizes In Pond Raceway System (IPRS) technology to promote profitable and sustainable pond aquaculture production. ...
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Development Prospect Of Aquaculture Industry
The fish feed machine is used to make fish feed pellets. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional fish feed machine manufacturer, which can provide various types of machines according to customers' requirements. Consumer Demand Of Seafood At present, with the gradual increase in consumption levels, consumers are also diversifying their demand for seafood, and the choices are becoming wider ...
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Coordinated efforts in aquaculture needed to meet global demand
The creation of a global partnership to help ensure that the world’s fish supplies can keep pace with booming demand has received a green light from FAO’s Sub-Committee on Aquaculture. Over 50 countries endorsed the Global Aquaculture Advancement Partnership (GAAP) programme, which will bring together governments, UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to ...
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The future of fish farming and marine fisheries for a growing population
Fish farms, and other forms of aquaculture, are seen as a potential solution to meeting increasing global demand for seafood. However, according to recent research, they must reduce their reliance on wild fish for animal feed if current production levels from both aquaculture and wild fisheries are to be maintained. As the world’s population heads towards the 9.3 billion mark, predicted ...
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The Soy Checkoff Continues to Find New Customers in Global Aquaculture
Even though soybean meal is the No. 1 protein source used in fish feeds worldwide, many people are still unaware of the benefits of feeding soy to this sector of animal agriculture. And the aquaculture industry is working on feed sustainability with soy as part of that equation. To educate other global aquaculture representatives, soy checkoff farmer-leaders Mike Beard, from Frankfort, Ind., and ...
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Fisheries MEPs approve rules for €6.5 billion EU aid fund
Operating rules for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) were approved by the Fisheries Committee on Wednesday. From 2014, the EMFF will fund EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) measures to make EU fisheries sustainable and develop aquaculture. The EMFF will also fund Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) cooperation among maritime stakeholders in different policy areas. "The adoption of my ...
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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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