A monthly review October 2011

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Aquaculture and antibiotics should there be more control? With the issues facing the meal and poultry industry where antibiotics are over used, could this be said of the aquaculture industry. Recently a paper was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, referring to a possible drug resistant bacterial strain called Salmonella Kentucky ST198 and that it might be connected to fish farming. This strain has been spreading since 2002, a recent study suggest that it might have come into African chickens via drug use in integrated aquaculture systems. Read more …

Export success for Scottish salmon Scottish salmon is a major success in the export market, “Farmed salmon from Argyll & Bute was one of the biggest food success stories in 2010”, according to the new boss of Scotland’s food and drink industry body. James Withers, Chief Executive of Scotland Food and Drink, said: “Salmon from Lochs Creran, Linnhe, Spelve, Tuath and Melfort, to name but a few, is in high demand in current and emerging markets such as the France, USA, Ireland and China.” Read more ...

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Meriden launches unique breakthrough product Meriden Animal Health is launching a unique breakthrough product, that will help hatcheries feed larvae a diet that is closer to an optimal wild larval diet. The product called Phyconomix which comes in liquid or powder form is designed to fulfill the nutritional requirements of larvae, shrimp and fish. Part of this product is to use specific nutrients that are not present in standard diets regimes. Read more ...

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Vietnam gets praise from Japanese inspectors Japanese inspectors inspected some fish farms and processing facilities in Vietnam and expressed positive comments on food safety and hygiene in the facilities. Staff at the facilities that were inspected was found to be well educated and experienced, the fish farms inspected were seen to be clean and no evidence of chemicals were present. Representatives from the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), Department of Animal Health under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Directorate of Fisheries (D-Fish) took part in the meeting. Read more …

Mexico brings in new health measures to protect shrimp production Mexico produces about 150 tons a year of shrimp and in order to protect the production of shrimp in Mexico they are bringing in new measures to establish a mandatory guidelines. The new measures are aimed at peo-ple who work in the early reproductive, spawning, incubation, pre-fatten-ing and fattening stages of shrimp farming, to reduce the risk of contami-nations of EMB. This virus was first detected in 1992 and spread through Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and India. Read more ...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Studies on fish discarded trimmings for use in feed by HSWRDiscards from fish processing are often of no real use, but Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute are looking into using these discards in feeds for their aquaculture facilities. Hubbs are using locally sourced fish trimming in their study to replace industrial fish meal and fish oil in aquaculture feeds and marine finfish. This research offers a unique challenge it could also reduce cost of fish feeds in the long term. Read more ...

Aquaculture Europe October 2011 we will be there With two weeks to go and over 600 abstracts received, Aquaculture Europe 2011 is promising to attract even more participants than AE10 in Porto. Register now and start to organise your travel. Rhodos, an Island in Greece and close to Turkey will become the venue this October for all Aquaculture professionals, academics and others interested in the Aquac-ulture Industry. Sea Bass, Sea Bream, Trout, Tilapia, Mollusks, Nutrition, Health, are just some topics that will be discussed during the conference. Our team from Perendale Publishers Ltd will be there, we will be at Stand 54 so if you want to meet Nicky or Sabby at the event, you can email us for an appointment or call by the stand or alternatively you can Skype Nicky at nicky.barnes4.

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Fish and Shrimp feeds contain probiotics With the growth of the aquaculture industry, there are challenges and problems that occur, widespread occurrence of disease, also viral and bacterial infections. As a strategy to antimicrobial compounds there is an increasing interested in probiotics and there is a diverse range of probiot-ics being used in aquaculture. These naturally occurring live microorgan-isms can improve growth and survival of aquaculture species. Read more

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

AgriMarine expands into China AgriMarine is expanding into the People Republic of China with new salmon sites, as world leaders in floating solid wall containment tech-nology. AgriMarine recently signed an agreement with the Government of Benxi County with the intention of developing two salmon farm sites in Benxi County, Liaoning Province, China. "The government of Benxi County is pleased with AgriMarine's progress in establishing a sustain-able aquaculture industry in its county and has been supportive of the Company's farming technologies based on floating solid-wall contain-ment fish farm systems", said Richard Buchanan, President and CEO of AgriMarine. Read more …

Salmon has improved efficiency from eating beans A research project costing UK£2.6 million (US$4.025 million) has been launched to investigate if faba beans could be used as an alternative to soya in salmon feeds. The four year project headed up by EWOS Ltd involves five partners including feed company BioMar Ltd, and Marine Harvest. "Salmon are very efficient converters of protein to meat, much more so than terrestrial animals," said Dr Gavin Ramsay, one of The James Hutton Institute scientists involved. "This project aims to create a viable and beneficial alternative to soya," he added. Read more ...

Aquaculture production slightly down in first quarter According to Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in the Philippines, aquaculture production was down by one percent after the first quarter of this year. BFAR-Davao Director Fatma Idris said "they are looking into different parameters affecting the decrease in aquaculture production and this includes the increase of fuel and climate change. Production fell from 5,366 metric tons produced in the first quarter of this year, it has reduced to 3,796 metric tons for the second quarter," Idris said. Read more ...

Friday, October 7, 2011

Indonesia government aims to increase fish production Indonesia Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has announced its plans to increase production of fish by 2015. “We plan to make Indonesia the world’s leading fish producer by 2015 and have thus targeted fantastic fish production levels every year,” Minister Fadel Muhammad said on Thursday after opening the Indonesian Blue Revolution Expo and Forum 2011 in Jakarta. The production included fish, shrimp and seaweed to be produced by fishing and aquaculture techniques. Read more ...

Center for Sturgeon opens in Canada The new International Center for Sturgeon Studies has opened at Van-couver Island University. Vice Chancellor and President, Ralph Nilson said “The International Centre for Sturgeon Studies provides students, faculty and staff with labs and equipment that will enable us to learn more about sturgeon and sustainable practices to ensure their long-term viability as a source of food. Our funding partners, combined with the support of individual donors, will keep VIU in the forefront of aquaculture research.” Read more ...

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Monday, October 10, 2011

Funds needed to remove used water from aquaculture farms In Vietnam there is a serious problem with the waste water from fish farms, due to the government failing to build adequate drainage to remove waste water the farmers and business are trying to build them themselves. The aquaculture industry has called upon the government to invest in drainage for 10 years, but has had no reply, the deputy chair-man of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has raised the issue many times to no avail even though fisheries exports is worth US$5 to 6 billion (€3.7 to 4.4 billion) a year. Read more …

Two fisheries giants locked in standoff on Canada's East coast Cooke Aquaculture is looking to purchase Clearwater Seafood, but the current owner of Clearwater John Risley at 64 isn't ready to retire. Cur-rently the bid offered by Cooke aquaculture only values Clearwater at Can$100 million (€71.816 million). The two firms know they would be stronger together but Clearwater board of Trustees rejected Cooke's bid, this has forced Cooke back to the drawing board, and Mr Cooke said that he understands both, its not just about the money for the sharehold-ers, he went on to say “It is not a hate relationship. We understand their dream, we run a bigger dream.” Read more ...

Norway teams up with Indonesia to increase fish production by 2015 The Indonesian governments plan to increase fish production by 2015, which includes seaweed, shrimp has created a unlikely new partnership with Norway. The Minister Fadel Muhammad said "Norway was also cho-sen for its advanced technology, marking Indonesia’s seriousness about develop aquaculture technology, especially since he changed fishery orientation from fishing to aquaculture shortly after being inaugurated in October 2009". Read more ...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

UK aquaculture gets Boost from EFF The UK aquaculture industry is getting investment from the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) to the tune of £245,000 (US$383,211.) which will be invested in education and training facilities. The grant is going to Sparsholt college in Winchester and will be put towards a new modern £490,000 (US$766,423.) fish hatchery, and will replace the existing hatchery that is over 35 years old. The learning manager at the college said "Such a significant grant recognises the importance of ensuring that the next generation looking to pursue a career in this sector do so with the appropriate qualifications acquired in facilities which mirror that of industry". Read more ...

Researcher say aquaponics could play a vital role in food security Researchers in American Samoa say aquaponics could play a vital role in the future of food security. The University of Hawaii and the American Samoa College will be jointly hosting a workshop on building aquaponics capacity. Aquaponics is producing both plants and fish together with out soil and in the same recirculating water. Read more ...

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Scottish aquaculture supplier completes largest freshwater project Fusion Marine Fish Farm has recently completed its largest upgrade freshwater project at Migdale Smolt farm on Loch Ness. The project at Dores was the installation of new growing pens combined with central support pontoon and access raft. This project was the latest project be-tween the two companies in an on going relationship that started 15 years ago. Migdale Smolt’s general manager Hugh Murray, said “We have an excellent relationship with Fusion Marine and first worked with the com-pany in 1996 when they installed fish farm pens at our smolt site on Loch Shin,”. Read more ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Using chemical free water with fiber filters, ultrasound and UV A new method of treating algal blooms is the chemical-free water treat-ment system consisting of fiber filter, ultrasound and UV for fish farm-ing has been studied by LG Sound. The study of this treatment using two ponds one treated and one untreated, the treated one showed the number of determined algal species was lower in the treated pond. The proportion of green algae and Cyanobacteria was higher in the non-treat-ed pond, and diatoms were the predominant group of algae in the treated pond. Read more ...

Hatcheries need algal concentrates A study carried out by Meriden Animal Health of the UK showed that for a hatchery to be successful it needs to have a culture of unicellular algae. The case study looked at the advantages of algae along with the disadvan-tages. Meriden animal health has developed a product range in response to the study they carried out known as PHYCONOMIX. Read more ...

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Workshop on making local fish feed The American Samoa Community College/Center, is holding a workshop on "Making Tilapia Feeds with Local Ingredients" on October 22, this work-shop is hosted by American Samoa Community College/Center for Natural Resources (ASCC/CNR). Ephraim Temple an extension agent in American Samoa said "The American Samoa Tilapia industry has struggled for years due to the lack of a consistent supply of feeds." Read more ...

Can salmon feed fish oils be replaced by micro-algae? A question being ask is are fatty acids in certain microalgae suitable to re-place fish oil in feed for salmonids. A Canadian Masters student from the University of Saskatchewan, Chuyuan Zhang is looking for the answer at Norway's Aquaculture Protein Center. Ms Zhang said “I am particularly interested in finding out how well the fatty acids of the algae are digested, and if they affect the fatty acid profile of the fish compared to salmon that is fed fish oil". Read more ...

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Trout growers in the US feel the pinch of high feed prices Trout growers in the United States are feeling the pinch, this is in part due to the increased demand of aquaculture products coupled with tighter supplies of key ingredients that have pushed up aquaculture feed by 25 to 30 percent since 2008. "Most of the growth is happening in Asia, particularly China", said Ron Hardy, director of the University of Idaho's Aquaculture Research Institute at Hagerman. "Feed is what's driving aquaculture," Hardy said during the US Trout Farmers Association annual meeting held recently in Twin Falls. Read more ...

Friday, October 14, 2011

New Zealand King Salmon applies for eight farms New Zealand company King Salmon has applied to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to set up eight new fish farming sites, the ap-plication was made days after new legislation come into force, Aquacul-ture Legislation Amendment Act (No 3). The site have been chosen after the company invested NZ$2 million (€1.155 million) in scientifically prov-ing the eight sites were suitable for salmon farming. The proposed eight sites are Ruaomoko Point, Kaitapeha Bay and Ngamahau Bay, just off Arapawa Island; Richmond Bay, Taipipi, Wymens Bay and White Horse Rock in the Waitata Reach, and Papatua in Port Gore. Read more ...

AquaBounty stands its ground in the GM salmon fight After two organisation released press statements, AquaBounty fights back, the statements were in reference to the fact that AquaBounty is planning on growing genetically modified salmon eggs. Both Sharon Labchuk of Earth Action P.E.I. and Leo Broderick of the Council of Cana-dians were raising their concerns over this venture well the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approval of AquAdvantage® Atlantic salmon eggs.

Ronald L. Stotish, CEO and president of AquaBounty Technologies said "So where will the salmon be grown, where will the jobs be, and how will we meet the consumer demand for seafood protein in the future?''. Sto-tish went onto say that groups like Earth Action P.E.I. offer no solutions but oppose everything. Read more ...

New report highlights troubling issues with factory farming fish The consumer advocacy group Food and Water Watch released its new report, the report highlights the issues and troubling implications of ex-panding factory fish farms off the US coast. The report indicates that the policy the government is pushing for to get more fish farms in the ocean will come at tremendous cost to both wild populations and the marine environment in general. Read more ...

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Monday, October 17, 2011

South Africa set to get job boost from fish farming The South African government is getting ready to start the second phase of a R25 million (€2.306 million) project developing a site on the wild coast to farm fish. This development program lead by the national depart-ment of fisheries aquaculture development zone (ADZ) strategy. This pro-gram will see the development of 10 of theses ADZ established around the country. Once the environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been carried out, if approved then the second phase begins. Read

Wild fish stocks safety questioned if GE salmon egg hatchery gets go ahead If the new GE salmon egg hatchery is approved by Environment Canada, they are unsure if wild stocks can be protected. This admission was outlined in internal records could stymie efforts by American company AquaBounty Technologies to produce and sell the first GE animal that people can eat. In the internal report that was released under the ac-cess to information law that was prepared last year, Environment Canada concluded that the narrower oversight option while “easily enforceable by inspecting shipments at the port of export” in Canada “falls short” of meet-ing Canada’s legal obligations under Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) “because it does not fully consider potential effects within Canada.” Read more ...

Aquaculture industry in Western Australia concerned over Vaccine and feed A Department of Fisheries senior fish pathologist Dr Brian Jones has indicated that there are concerns over economical, environmental, nutri-tional and pollution issues that are ongoing concerns for the aquaculture’s future viability. Dr Jones said “We tend to think of aquaculture as things in ponds but there are farms that grow beta-carotene, which is actually our largest aquaculture producer in terms of value." Disease is another criti-cal factor since 2002, white spot syndrome (WSS) virus cost the global aquaculture economy US$10 billion (€7.197 billion). Read more ...

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Anger over claims of possible fish farm ban The Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation Scott Landsburgh, is angered at the media claims of potential bans on fish farm development, he is also angered about the claims that the salmon producing industry is damaging wild salmon stocks. Landsburgh said "I am very angry that this proposition has been put forward. It is ludicrous to suggest that fish farms could be banned. Salmon farming has always de-veloped on the west coast and in the Northern and Western Isles where conditions are ideal and away from where 90 percent of all wild salmon in Scotland are caught." Read more ...

ISA has been confirmed in wild salmon in Canada A lethal European virus known as Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA), deadly to salmon has been detected in two young wild salmon. The fish was taken from an inland lake on the central Pacific coast of British Columbia, were two from 48 caught. The virus which is commonly spread on commercial Atlantic Salmon eggs is thought to have originated in Europe and is the same virus that devastated the Chilean salmon industry in 2007. "If these results are valid, this could be a threat to our business and the communi-ties that rely on our productive industry," Stewart Hawthorn, of salmon farm operator Grieg Seafood, said in a statement. Read more ...

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Catfish's future uncertain due to high feed cost In the United States, catfish producers are struggling against high costs and they know that the strong market prices may not last much longer. Jimmy Avery, aquaculture leader with the Mississippi State University Extension Service said "years of pond acreage reductions are driving fish prices up. Unfortunately, the cost of producers’ biggest expense, feed, is also setting record highs. The end result could challenge consumers to afford this US farm-raised product. “Feed costs have gone up about 120 percent in the last 10 years. In 2000, producers were paying about US$192 (€138.583) per ton for feed. Read more ....

Thursday, October 20, 2011

EU aquaculture facing challenges Lara Barazi Yeroulanos CEO of Kefalonia Fisheries SA opening address to Aquaculture Europe she told the conference that well many challenges face aquaculture in Europe, a huge opportunity has presented itself which must be embraced. She said "that the demand for seafood is growing and the population is increasing, and with the effects of declining catches of fish and climate change, that aquaculture must fill the gap". Miss Barazi - Yeroulanos said that "aquaculture in EU was not recognised as an industry by many, and needed much more government support if it is to succeed". Read more ...

Offshore project in aquaculture underway in Hawaii Kampachi farms is embarking on one of its most ambitious projects in the United States. The project known as Velella research project involves unanchored cages of fish that are able to move freely with the currents and winds in water over two miles deep and up to 150 miles offshore. The key aim of this project is to farm fish as sustainably as possible by moving them offshore to reduce many of the environmental impacts of aquacul-ture. Read more ...

Six Chiefs in Zambia Luapula Province look to aquaculture In Zambia's Luapula Province, six Chiefs have formed a company called Bangweulu Investment Limited, the reason behind the formation of this company is fish farming. The Chief's are looking to develop aquaculture in their province for restocking the water bodies whose resources are fast running out. Chief Nsamba said that the investment is intended to train all the locals who would be involved. "As a way of promoting a sense of ownership we intend to contract people working in community groups to manage the fish which would be placed in cages," he said. Read more ...

Friday, October 21, 2011

The humble maggot an alternative to high priced fish feeds In South Africa, the humble maggot is being hailed as an alternative protein source for live stock and fish farming. An entrepreneur from South Africa has established a pilot plant near Stellenbosch in the Western cape, the plant will be up scaled next year into a trail plant converting mil-lions of the grubs into one and a half tons of rich protein powder per day to supplement commercial livestock and fish diets. Read more ...

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Chinese fish and shrimp feed company brought by Nutreco Nutreco a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed has successfully purchased 100 per cent of the shares in Zhuhai Shihai Feed Co. Ltd, the acquisition is in line with Skretting development plans and provides Nutreco with a production base in China, the worlds number one aquacul-ture feed market. Shihai supplies a growing market and produced approx-imately 100,000 tonnes of fish and shrimp feed in 2010, a year in which it commissioned a new feed plant with a capacity of approximately 150,000 tonnes. Read more ...

Oregon company looking to establish new fish farm Around Puget Sound fish farmers rear millions of Atlantic salmon in net pens, now an Oregon company Pacific Seafood wants to create a new fish farm, where they plan to rear 10 million pounds a year of steelhead and Atlantic salmon in cages in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This plan would double the farmed fish in saltwater in Washington. The proposal comes as long-simmering battles over the future of marine aquaculture heat up across the continent. Read more ...

Monday, October 24, 2011

Skretting Aquaculture Research Center works joins EU funded project A European Union (EU) funded project joined by Skretting Aquaculture Research Center to maximise the retention of marine omega-3 fatty acids in farmed fish given feeds with improved sustainability. One method of raising the sustainability of fish feed is to reduce the content is to reduce the marine raw material in fishmeal and fish oil.

Researcher Ingunn Stubhaug explains: “We will explore ways of produc-ing fish on diets that, across the full growth phase, have a lower content of marine oils. This can be achieved by identifying suitable antioxidants to protect the highly unsaturated fatty acids from oxidation, and optimising their inclusion levels." This project is expected to run for four years and starts in January 2012. Read more ...

Suspected ISA virus in British Columbia investigated The suspected outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) in wild sockeye salmon in British Columbia (BC) is to be investigated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), and the Fisheries and Oceans Canada. In line with federal aquatic health standards, who will be work-ing with the Atlantic Veterinary College which did the initial testing. Read more ...

Replacing a fish based diet with plant based diet, what are the effects For more than two decades an effort has been on going to replace fish meal diets in finfish with plant based diets. Research has yielded results that showed that the substitution of fish meal for plant based has resulted in impacts on growth performance and the immune system of fish. The key objective of this new study was to analyses the effects of plant based diets on the hepatic transcriptome of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Read more ...

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

USSEC launches website on benefits of soy fed fish The US Soybean Export Council, have launched a revamped website for its global aquaculture program. The website www.soyaqua.org will allow them to communicate the benefits of soy in aquaculture feeds to both consumer and the global seafood industry.

"Most people don't know that the US soybean industry has one of the largest aquaculture programs in the world," says Michael Cremer, techni-cal director of USSEC's aquaculture program. "We work with aquaculture-producing countries to develop sustainable production technologies and feeds, and on food safety issues. We have been successful in developing sustainable soy-based feeds for most of the major production species around the world." Read more …

Youngstown Ohio get sustainable fish farm The Idora neighbour hood of Youngstown of Ohio is to get its own sus-tainable fish farm, breeding tilapia, to help improve the communities ac-cess to nutritious food. The farm will be of neighborhood scale, with zero discharge recirculating aquaponics system. This system will allow the towns people to grow and harvest healthy and nutritious tilapia, but also fresh produce all year round. The majority of the community are classed as low income (27 percent below the poverty level). This project will allow them to have a source of healthy protein pretty much all year round. Read more ...

The welfare of farmed fish is Asia-Pacific ready? In the production of any animal for food questions are asked, and one of the key questions always is are the animal treated humanely. Em Leano and CV Mohan from the Network of Aquaculture Centers in the Asia-Pa-cific looked at the welfare of farmed fish, they also looked at the current legislation and the challenges faced as the attitude of the public changes. One question that farmers, processors and vendors will need to ask, is the handling/killing of farmed aquatic animals inhumane? Read more ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Hawaii white spot outbreak on salt farm An outbreak of white spot disease occurred at a salt farm in Hawaii, and was reported to World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in October. The outbreak occurred in Kauai and effected a defined zone within the country. Control measures were put into place immediately and included Movement control in the country, Quarantine, Vaccination prohibited ,No treatment of affected animals. The company has separate brood stock compartments of the operation that are located over two km away. These brood stock facilities continue to have strict biosecurity practices and dis-ease testing procedures that include white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in place. Read more …

Irish shellfish aquaculture demands faster license turnaround Flor Harrington leader of the Irish shellfish association has said that the licensing was a ‘make or break’ issue for his members. “There are almost 600 licenses backed up in the Department and, no matter what spin you want to put on it, this is holding up a key sector of the economy which provides 1,700 full and part-time jobs and over €40 million (US$55.778 million) in export income. The places we work in are peripheral, rural coastal areas with very little alternative opportunities for our young peo-ple.” Read more ...

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Marine Harvest to use anti predator nets Marine Harvest one of Canada's largest producers of farmed salmon, has announced its intention to use anti-predator nets to protect its Canadian fish cages from seals and other predators that attack the salmon. Using anti predator nets will eliminate the need to shoot and kill the animals, this decision comes days after an international coalition of animal welfare and marine conservation groups, called for a ban on imports of salmon from countries that allow the shooting and killing of marine mammals. This ban also includes Scotland and Canada. Read more ...

Floods in Vietnam has shut down 70% of catfish plants In Vietnam the severe flooding has taken its toll on the catfish process-ing plants, as well as the catfish farmers. About 70 percent of the catfish processing plants in the Mekong Delta have been forced to shut down due to a severe raw material shortage, that has been caused by the flooding of the region. In the Dong Thap An Giang province which ac-counts for 60 percent of the total production of catfish, floods have pre-vented farmers feeding their fish while the ponds have become contami-nated. Read more ...

New Brunswick's Salmon farming industry opposed to GM fish The opposition of the aquaculture industry to genetically modified salmon is continuing, New Brunswick's Salmon farming industry has come out and said "Our position is very clear, short and simple we do not support the commercial production of genetically modified salmon," said Nell Halse, chairwoman of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association. She went on to say "We wouldn't even entertain changing that position unless two things happen: The regulatory bodies would have to declare it a safe product we don't have that today and second is that there would have to be market demand, and we don't have that today, for sure." Read more

Friday, October 28, 2011

New sea louse vaccine being developed in Scotland A new project is under development funded by the Technology Strategy Board in a joint initiative between the Scottish government and Biotech-nology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). To develop a novel sea louse vaccine, that will be a environmentally friendly tool for increasing sustainability of protein production in UK salmon aquaculture. The project is led by Pfizer an industrial partner who has provided a sub-stantial match to the funding and brings together expertise within Pfizer, the Institute of Aquaculture and the Moredun Research Institute. Read more ...

FinFish aquaculture research Australia New south wales (NSW) has announced that the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has lodged a planning application to establish a marine finfish aquaculture research lease. “The application seeks to es-tablish a 20 hectare lease (370 metres x 530 metres) located 3.5 kilome-tres off Hawks Nest for a period of five years,”. “Key outcomes from the research would be proving species suitability, validating equipment and technology and to conduct environmental monitoring." Said Minister for Primary Industries Katrina Hodgkinson. Read more

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Marine Harvest warns oversupply this year and next Marine Harvest ASA from Norway the worlds largest fish farmers, are warning that oversupply this year and next year would keep prices low for farmed salmon. Marine Harvest will cut cost to compensate. "We expect a continued strong increase in global supply for the rest of 2011 and 2012," Chief Executive Alf-Helge Aarskog said in a statement. "We must be pre-pared for a challenging market also in 2012."

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Marine Harvest warns oversupply this year and next Marine Harvest ASA from Norway the worlds largest fish farmers, are warning that oversupply this year and next year would keep prices low for farmed salmon. Marine Harvest will cut cost to compensate. "We expect a continued strong increase in global supply for the rest of 2011 and 2012," Chief Executive Alf-Helge Aarskog said in a statement. "We must be pre-pared for a challenging market also in 2012." Read more ...

Monday, October 31, 2011

Fish health experts need to act over salmon virus Due to the recent reports of the ISA virus found in wild salmon, there needs to be a plan of action to deal with this outbreak before its devas-tate the population. “We need an action plan immediately and we need to make sure that we are formulating a rapid response to what to do if we do detect that the virus is spreading,” US Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash, said in support of an amendment to a pending appropriations bill in Congress. The virus known as infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is well know and has killed tens of millions of farm-raised salmon in such far-flung places as Norway, Chile, New Brunswick, Canada and Scotland. Read more ...

20 Hectare finfish research lease in Port Stephen's The Department of Primary Industries has unveiled its plans for a 20 hec-tare finfish research lease in Port Stephen's. This will allow Port Stephen's researchers to extend their ground breaking research into Yellowtail King-fish and Southern Bluefin tuna. Ian Lyall aquaculture manager said "We had a couple of aquaculture projects in the region that haven't proceeded as we though they may have, that's true," he also said. "I guess for us to take that risk to do that proof of concept is probably important to show that we can undertake this activity sustainably". Read more ...

ISA detection re-ignites long standing debate With the detection of infectious salmon anemia (ISA), that was found to be present in two juvenile sockeye salmon in British Columbia has re-ignited a long standing debate as to weather salmon farms should be moved inland. The long running debate has been about the sustainability of the aquaculture industry, particularly salmon farms and for a long time now people have been calling for farms to be moved inland, thus protect-ing the marine environment. Read more ...

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