http://www.wfga.net/ Recent WFGA Articles en-us PHP/4.4.8 http://www.wfga.net http://www.wfga.net/images/wfga_rss.gif 120 94 Recent WFGA Articles http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7828/gm-oysters-at-root-of-french-shellfish-plague FRANCE - Genetically "improved" oysters could be behind the worst plague of the shellfish to hit France in 40 years, it has been reported. Last month farmers around France announced that they had lost between 40 and 100 per cent of their oysters aged one to two years old, reports the Telegraph. According to oysters farmers cited by weekly magazine Marianne, the culprit is the triploid oyster, which is modified to give it three pairs of chromosomes instead of two, as is the case with common oysters............. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7825/global-report-on-key-challenges-to-aquaculture UK - A new market research report has been released which investigates the current global aquaculture and fisheries market, detailing key challenges and issues the industry faces. The report analyzes the worldwide markets for Aquaculture and Fisheries in Thousand Tons. The major product segments analyzed are Aquaculture, and Fisheries. The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Rest of World....... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2441227.0.Seaweed_solution.php Gerry Braiden's report, Shoppers told to steer clear of west-coast haddock amid over-fishing fears (September 4), highlights the problems faced by the fishing industry in keeping the markets supplied with fish. It is interesting that we in Scotland source many of our vegetables from the five continents but appear to ignore seaweed which grows in abundance around our coasts. It should not be beyond our scientists to identify those types of seaweed which are suitable for human consumption and if necessary farm them in our coastal waters just as we have farmed fish............. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7826/pressure-at-sea-can-port-mouton-bay-survive CANADA - The question still lingers as to whether to accommodate an additional, and what is deemed to become Nova Scotia’s largest aquaculture site, in Port Mouton Bay. According to Mary Ediger of The Chronicle Herald, the provincial government’s recent purchase of the lands behind Carters and Wobamkek beaches and the promise to protect that area has seemingly placated many area residents into thinking the aquaculture issue is dead. "But this is not the case," she writes. "The pending decision has the local lobster fishers nervous and concerned for their futures."..................... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1862804/ KLM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines launched a pilot study serving sustainable fish on board its planes last weekend. Passengers in World Business Class can now choose Marine Stewardship Council-certified hake fillet from the menu. KLM strives to lead the industry in assuming corporate social responsibility. Reducing CO2 emissions is a top priority in KLM's CSR policy............ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7827/new-pr-firm-to-get-yellow-perch-in-restaurants US - In March, Bell Aquaculture announced operation of the nation's largest yellow perch (Perca flavescens) farm. Now, with a new PR company and corporate HQ, it aims to get product into restaurants. Bell Aquaculture's Bell Perch™ product is expected to be available for restaurant purchase in early 2009. Further, Bell Aquaculture broke ground on its corporate headquarters and processing facilities in Redkey, IN, in July. Construction is targeted for completion prior to yearend............ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16112&Itemid=0 A TEAM of experts from Erste Graceland, an agriculture consultancy firm and Nigerian Institute of Oceaneography and Marine Research (NIOMR) who were concerned about the nation's food security threat took a trip to Thailand to understudied shrimp farming were back from the trip recently: Verdict — "Shrimp farming does not really existent in Nigeria," they said with authority. *EG, NIOMR experts with their Thailand counterparts harvesting shrimps in a typical shrimp pond. They also claimed that only capture of fisheries by trawlers and "export a great percentage of their catches............. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7820/seas-and-oceans-eu-research-protects-and-sustains EU - Research and Innovation hold a key to reconciling sometimes competing goals of sustainable economic growth and environmental preservation in sea-based activities. Within the context of the overall new integrated maritime policy and to take up on this challenge, the European Commission yesterday adopted "A European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research". The Strategy's objective is to overcome fragmentation of the European marine and maritime research landscape by capacity building, increased integration across traditional research sectors and increased cooperation of all actors in this area............. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/11707/FISH_is_one_of_the_main_commodities_helping_to_send_food_price_inflation_soaring_in_the_UK.html Retail analysts Verdict Research found that fish, along with meat, has shot up by almost 23 per cent in the past 12 months. The figures come amid growing concern about the high cost of food, which is exceeding the official inflation rate. The index, which Verdict has been compiling since January this year, is designed to track the cost of a typical trolley of UK food items. It divides household supermarket purchases into 13 categories, including frozen foods, fresh fruit and vegetables, ready meals and dairy goods.............. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7821/fish-to-eat-fish-to-avoid-seafish-in-praise UK - Philip MacMullen, Seafish Head of Environmental Responsibility, said that he broadly welcomes the MCS “Fish to Eat and Fish to Avoid List”, According to Mr MacMullen, consumers need clear guidance to help them make responsible choices when buying seafood. Good, clear labelling will become a very important part of this process in the future but traceability is still far from perfect as far as consumers are concerned......... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thecoaster.ca/index.cfm?sid=167756&sc=319 The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA), in partnership with the Coast of Bays Corporation (COBC), has a big event coming up later this month - the Aquaculture Showcase Event. During this event, which takes place Sept. 17-19, the general public will have an opportunity to take part in various aquaculture tours and meet with various aquaculture developers in the region. "The purpose of this event is to highlight the growth of the aquaculture industry throughout the Coast of Bays region," said Miranda Pryor, executive director with NAIA............... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=41830 There is optimism that aquaculture in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas can grow and outstrip demand for cheap imported seafood from countries like China. Reports by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say that inspectors have repeatedly found cancer-causing chemicals in farm-raised Chinese seafood. Shrimp from China is regularly sold in the CNMI where quality controls at the border are poor............... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080904-158645/Ex-MNLF-fighters-find-good-fortune-in-timely-fish-delivery MALUSO, BASILAN -- At the crack of dawn, Isni Undin and his men finish sorting 100 kilos of live Tiger Grouper into watertight boxes and loading them into a new motor boat docked alongside Undin's stilt house in the coastal community of Tubigan. Undin does a final check to make sure the aerator will supply the groupers with enough oxygen to keep them alive during their four-hour voyage to Zamboanga City.................. Since 1997, through its GEM and LEAP programs, the US government has assisted more than 28,000 former MNLF combatants, in over 500 villages across Mindanao to make the transition from being combatants to productive growers of vegetables, fruits, seaweeds and aquaculture products............ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008154633_sturgeon03.html SPOKANE — Environmentalists have reached an agreement with government agencies intended to help the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon spawn for the first time since the 1970s, the parties said Tuesday. The deal will end six years of litigation over efforts to save North America's largest freshwater fish. The sturgeon, which can grow to 19 feet long, are found only in northern Idaho, northwest Montana and southeast British Columbia. Kootenai sturgeon have not successfully spawned since the mid-1970s, when Libby Dam was completed................. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.allaboutfeed.net/news/id102-63278/wto_us_shrimp_ruling_benefits_cpf.html Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc (CPF) stands to benefit from the World Trade Organization’s ruling against the United States in an anti-dumping case involving Thai shrimp exports. This ruling will lower US import duties for Thai shrimp to 3.18% from the previous 6.05%. With the new ruling now in place, CPF president and CEO Adirek Sripratak, says he expects shrimp shipments to the US this year to amount to 40,000 tons, as compared with 34,000 tons last year. "Shrimp exports to the US generally account for 20% of CPF’s sales," he says, adding that it is the biggest market for shrimp, comprising 42-43% of exports, followed by Japan at 20%, the EU at 15%, with Australia and Canada, making up the rest............. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2008/09/03/sports/080903s1doncol.txt Nora the Schnauzer finds out the hard way you just can’t walk on POND SCUM So, Nora the Schnauzer didn’t intend to wade. She simply mistook the skim of scum (er, the layer of green algae on the surface) as solid ground. Alas, she stepped onto it from the rock we stood on and sank from sight................... Rocky Ford Creek is a fly-fishing only fishery that’s open year around. It’s stocked periodically with brood trout from the nearby Trout Lodge hatchery. It’s privately owned and located off of Highway 17 about 150 miles from Walla Walla. Drive north of Moses Lake for about 23 miles and look for a sign to Trout Lodge. Turn right and drive about three miles on a dirt road to the hatchery area. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.aquacopia.com/2008/09/time-to-make-bid-for-future-of-seafood.html Several items of industry news in recent days point to promising exits for the producers of novel aquaculture species in the coming years. Large, mainly European, seafood firms are going public and, with that currency, are poised to diversify species and regions through acquisition. Aquacopia has investments in two cobia farms, Snapperfarm and Open Blue Sea Farms. Cobia is a white-fleshed fish that has been widely referenced in the trade press as "the next salmon.".................. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.enaca.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1765 Vietnam 9-10 December 2008 An international symposium on the aquaculture of spiny lobster will be held at Nha Trang on the central coast of Vietnam from 9-10 December 2008. The main objective of the symposium is to extend the findings arising from the ACIAR lobster project Sustainable spiny lobster aquaculture development in Vietnam, eastern Indonesia and Australia. The symposium is aimed towards researchers, university lecturers, technical representatives servicing the aquaculture industry, particularly feed manufacturers, and provincial and government aquaculture extension/regulatory officers Presentations are also welcome from participants who have done work relevant to tropical lobster aquaculture development. The symposium will be conducted in English and there is no registration charge (its free), but attendees have to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. For more information about the symposium please email kevin.williams ‘at’ csiro.au. Please see the ACIAR website for an overview of the scope of work covered in the project. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.allaboutfeed.net/news/id102-63831/omega_36_product_benefits_dairy_fertility.html SCA NuTec will launch a new feeding programme to boost dairy cow fertility. This programme consists of consecutive feeding two products each with a specific composition of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. "Omega-3 and 6 fatty acids are attracting a lot of attention in human nutrition and there is growing evidence that these fatty acids also have beneficial effects on dairy cow health, particularly on the production of prostaglandin in the uterus," says company ruminant nutritionist Norman Downey............... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.aquafeed.com/read-article.php?id=2503&sectionid=1 New technology that can help shrimp farmers double their yields within three years is now available to Queensland farmers thanks to the support of the State Government. Visiting the Gold Coast Marine Aquaculture facility last week, Minister for Regional Development and Industry Desley Boyle announced a $500,000 Smart State Innovation Projects Fund (IPF) grant to the CSIRO to advance a program of introducing Elite Giant Tiger Prawns to Australian Prawn Farmers. "Using advanced genetic technologies scientists from the CSIRO Food Futures National Flagship have been able to selectively breed fast-growing, high-health prawns, in close collaboration with Gold Coast Marine Aquaculture, one of Queensland's leading prawn farming companies," she said............. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080903/OPINION02/709039986 Has the state of Washington "co-managed" our fisheries to the point of extinction? I have never met Bob Heirman, but his Sunday commentary, "The Golden Age of Steelheading," makes so much sense that I would hope all officials of the Department of Fish and Wildlife and every sportsman in Washington will read and heed it. The hatchery programs which are, or were, paid for by license fees, should be enhanced, not cut back............. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://finfish.org/blog/independent-power-for-offshore-aquaculture/ Increasingly, the ability to create large sustainable aquaculture production capability seems to be headed in the direction of automated systems. Some proposals are going as far as autonomous aquaculture operations. If this is the case then increasingly automated aquaculture operations will require more electrical power............... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7805/integrated-coastal-zone-management-report-approved EU - Members of the Euroepan Parliament have adopted a non-binding report on "Fisheries and Aquaculture in the context of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe." The move by the European Parliament stresses the importance of aquaculture to the food industry for social and economic development in some EU coastal communities. Furthermore, "aquaculture for repopulation purposes is an essential tool to achieve ecological conservation in certain coastal zones, and it must therefore be promoted, stimulated and financially supported", the MEPs say.......... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://marineharvestcanada.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/orcafest-2008-port-mcneill-bc/ The annual donation of salmon from Marine Harvest was much appreciated during the annual ‘Orcafest’ held each August in Port McNeill, BC. Members of the Full Gospel Church were able to raise over $1600.00 for the local food bank. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/490942.html STANLEY -- The first sockeye salmon returned to Redfish Lake on Tuesday with a little help from Gov. Butch Otter. Once tens of thousands of the bright red fish returned to the lake in the sundown shadows of the Sawtooth Mountains. But a century of mining, dam building, poisoning and over-harvest drove sockeye numbers to single digits in the 1990s. The fish is one of a bumper crop of sockeye, raised in the captive breeding program designed to preserve the gene pool of the endangered species............... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7806/tra-and-basa-catfish-prices-leap VIET NAM - Thanhnien News reports that as Mekong Delta's farmers have quit fish breeding, prices of pangasius, or tra and basa catfish, have jumped some VND1,500 per kilo over the past few days. Duong Ngoc Minh, general director of the seafood processing firm Hung Vuong Corp., said yesterday that tra and basa were selling for VND15,500 (about 94 U.S. cents) per kilo. He added that supplies had dwindled since some 50 percent of the region’s farmers had stopped raising the fish............... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?contentid=12043 The Chief of Bekwai, Nana Karikari Appau II, has commended AngloGold Ashanti, (AGA) Obuasi Mine, for its Aquaculture project at Homase, in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region. The $550,000 project, which comprises of a suite of fish growing schemes, integrated with livestock rearing, and year-round leafy vegetable farming and ecotourism, was launched last year. It is one of the projects the company was embarking on, under its sustainable development programme............ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/11695/NAFC_MARINE_CENTRE_WELCOMES_MINISTERIAL_VISIT.html The UK parliamentary under-secretary of state (marine, landscape and rural affairs), Jonathan Shaw MP, visited the NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway yesterday as part of a whistle-stop tour of Shetland. The minister arrived at the centre's marine hatchery where, accompanied by Alistair Carmichael MP, he learned about planned research on wrasse breeding and the recently completed 'Seas Around Us' project, which gave local school children an appreciation of life in the seas around Shetland, as well as an insight into career opportunities in marine science. The minister was also briefed on the pioneering monkfish research carried out at the NAFC, as well as the recently won contract to undertake research on the fishery for megrim....................... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.fishfarmer-magazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1753/Seafish_is_calling_on_support_for_a_project_which_could_improve_profits_and_seafood_safety..html A pilot project running in the south west of England is using satellite monitoring and operational predictive models to identify and forecast the movement of algal blooms. This technology could be used by shellfish harvesters to identify biotoxin levels – a process which until now has been lengthy and complex. An algal bloom is the name given to large masses of phytoplankton, which are very small, free floating organisms that live in the sea............. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/7809/shrimp-firm-sends-warning-against-chinese-imports MICRONESIA - A Micronesian shrimp farming company is warning consumers against potential health threats posed by contaminants that may be present in seafood raised in China and marketed in the CNMI under lax government regulations. In a statement issued Tuesday, staff with Saipan Aquaculture, a burgeoning local shrimp farming business, pointed to reports by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that inspectors have repeatedly found cancer-causing chemicals in farm-raised Chinese seafood. Local grocery stores, however, continue to carry Chinese farm-raised shrimp and other seafood because of weak import controls, the company says............ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?contentid=12041 Confounded by the inexhaustible array of choices available when you stroll through a supermarket today? Well, here's another one to add to the list: How would you like your environmental degradation? By land or by sea? Whether it's pesticides and fertilizers leaching out of croplands or marine fish stocks vanishing by the boatful, every food purchase carries increasingly visible ecological costs. Against this backdrop, a growing cadre of academics, farmers and aquaculturists is working to refine and popularize a technique that could slash those costs for both fish and vegetable products............ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700