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USSEC Provides Trade and Technical Servicing to Shrimp Producers in Peru
USSEC provided technical support to commercial shrimp growers in Peru by holding multiple discussions with a feedmill representative and fish and shrimp producers about modifying diet formulations for fish and shrimp by incorporating more soybean meal derived from U.S.-grown soybeans. Visits to fish and shrimp farms and facilities by USSEC consultants Dr. John Hargreaves and Jairo Amezquita ...
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BiOWiSH™ offers groundbreaking, money back aquaculture guarantee
August 23, 2011 For Immediate Release CHICAGO, IL - BiOWiSH Technologies has launched an industry-changing 100% money back guarantee for aquaculture shrimp producers interested in BiOWiSH™-AquaFarm. BiOWiSH will refund any producer who tries BiOWiSH™-AquaFarm and finds the increased value of production doesn't exceed the cost of the product, up to 100% of the producer's cost for ...
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ASC Standards Translated for Farmers in Indonesia, World’s Second Largest Farmed Fish Producer
ASC has translated its Shrimp, Tilapia, and Tropical Marine Finfish Standards and related guidance documents into Indonesian to help more farmers in the country work towards more responsible practices. Indonesia is the world’s second largest producer of farmed fish, making it a vital country for ASC’s mission to improve aquaculture practices. As well as the full standards, audit ...
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Omarsa: Chinese ban threatens Ecuadorian shrimp industrys growth plans
VIGO, Spain -- A suspension of shrimp imports from five Ecuadorian companies, which was announced last month by Chinese authorities, is a source of worry for the Latin American country's industry, said Sandro Coglitore, general manager at Omarsa, one of the largest shrimp processors in Ecuador. "Export to China continues from the [Ecuadorian] plants [still] approved," Coglitore told Undercurrent ...
By tru Shrimp
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Start-up promises to revolutionise shrimp farming
A UK start-up says it has developed a low-cost, ecological alternative to traditional shrimp farming by using bacteria as both a water filter and food for its shrimp. IKEA-like portable units using microbes and solar power to cheaply grow shrimp indoors could transform the booming aquaculture sector and prevent further environmental degradation, according to its inventors. If made available to ...
By SciDev.Net
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FDA ramps up refusals of shrimp with salmonella
FDA Ramps Up Refusals of Shrimp with Salmonella in September, Refusals for Antibiotic-Contaminated Shrimp Already Exceeds Annual Totals of Last Two Years. For September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported that 6 out of the 75 (8.0%) total seafood entry line refusals were of shrimp for reasons related to banned antibiotics. With three months left to go in 2019, the FDA has now ...
By tru Shrimp
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Bangladesh: agricultural sector devastated in cyclone-hit areas
The agriculture, livestock and fisheries sectors in southern Bangladesh have suffered enormous losses and large-scale assistance is urgently needed to address the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr, FAO said today. The cyclone has affected over 6.7 million people in 30 southern districts, and latest government reports put the death toll at around 3 000 people. According to data from the Disaster ...
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Bringing aquaculture sustainability down to earth
More recent efforts to develop indicators of sustainability incorporate broader considerations that include economic and social sustainability in addition to environmental sustainability. Of these, economic and social sustainability considerations have received far less attention in the research literature than has environmental sustainability. In today’s world, there is no debate over ...
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Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Aquatic Feed Plant
In the aquatic feed extrusion process, the feedstuff actually go through the condition of high temperature, high humidity and high pressure. When the feed pellets are discharged from the fish feed extruder machine, the pressure is dropped from high pressure to about 100kPa, and the moisture in the feedstuff immediately transforms from liquid to gas and distributes out of the feed. As a result, ...
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Shrimp farming in Switzerland
Unlike cheese and chocolate manufacturing, shrimp farming is not commonly associated with Switzerland. Yet, Europe’s largest shrimp farm is located in Rheinfelden, Switzerland. There, SwissShrimp AG uses the enormous amount of waste heat produced by the nearby Swiss Salt Works in their brine evaporation process to heat 16 large indoor pools and farm Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeous ...
By Metrohm AG
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How To Improve The Economic Benefit Of Breeding Shrimp
The fish feed machine is an indispensable equipment to make aquatic feed pellets, Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional shrimp fish feed machine manufacturer, this article will introduce how to improve the economic benefit of breeding shrimp in detail. Feeding produced the residual bait and feces are the key to the source of water quality and sediment components. Only improving the ...
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U.S. Soybean Farmers Witness Direct Impact of Soy Checkoff’s Efforts
Ten U.S. soybean farmers participated in the United Soybean Board’s (USB’s) 2014 See for Yourself program to learn about their customers beyond the elevator and the soy checkoff’s role in marketing U.S. soy to those customers. This year, the farmers visited St. Louis, Panama and Ecuador, from Aug. 14-22. A total of 70 farmers have taken advantage of this unique opportunity over ...
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