http://www.wfga.net/ Recent WFGA Articles en-us PHP/5.2.6 http://www.wfga.net http://www.wfga.net/images/wfga_rss.gif 120 94 Recent WFGA Articles http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11871/salmonchile-donates-500-million-to-earthquake-campaign CHILE - The Chilean Salmon Industry Association (SalmonChile) has donated a large sum of money the campaign ChileChile, which will help victims of the recent earthquake. The organization will contribute a total of 10 million litres of water to the worst affected areas, a hundred thousand salmon lunches and another 100 million pesos. General Manager of Salmon Chile, Carlos Odebret said: "The first two trucks containing............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=481080 KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 (Bernama) -- Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway believes that Malaysia and Norway have significant potential for cooperation in aquaculture. He said, as both countries had long coastlines, they could develop an aquaculture industry. "Norwegian companies have come up with many innovative technologies with a strong focus on sustainability, and I am convinced Malaysian and Norwegian expertise in this field have a lot to exchange," he said in his............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.allaboutfeed.net/news/turkish-town-turns-from-textile-to-trout-id4193.html The Aegean city of Denizli tries to find its way through new sectors after its dominant textile industry is dethroned. Trout production in the city seems promising with its market potential in Europe, writes Hürriyet Daily News. Turkish town turns from textile to trout Trout is emerging as one of the solutions for Turkey’s Aegean city of Denizli, which has been seeking alternatives in the face of the ailing fortunes of its once dominant textile sector. It is not just any trout, but Rainbow Trout favoured by.............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/13251/Fishing_pirates_suffer_major_defeat.html PIRATES who have been menacing European and other fishing boats in the Indian Ocean suffered a major setback yesterday. The French Navy captured 35 pirate suspects off the Somali Coast hailing it as the most successful EU mission since operations began two years ago. French officials said four mother ships and six smaller boats which had.......... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=87412 Canada: Marine Harvest reacted as well as it could when a sudden drop on ocean oxygen levels caused the death of thousands of fish, and the weight of them resulted in a tear, allowing fish to escape Aquaculture is in the news again in British Columbia. With new rules for the game of fish and shellfish farming being written by the federal government, environmentalists are busy getting their criticism of the industry into the media. An unfortunate escape of some 40,000 harvest-size Atlantic salmon from a farm in the Broughton Archipelago last year provided ammunition for............ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=3-2010&day=10&id=35806&l=e&country=0&special=&ndb=1&df=0 Executives of the company Pesquera Bio Bio report that half of the facilities of the fishmeal processing plant located in VIII Region were demolished. The VIII Region (Bio Bio), where the company operates its fleet operation and production of fishmeal/fish oil and products for human consumption, was one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake of Saturday 27 February. According to the general manager of the company, Jan Stengel, they are currently.............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11876/scottish-parliament-supports-sustainable-aquaculture SCOTLAND, UK - In todays meeting at Parliament, the Scottish goverment acknowledged the continued development of an ambitious and sustainable Scottish aquaculture industry. The Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham said that Parliament recognises the economic importance of the industry to Scotland as a whole and many coastal communities in particular. She also supports the considerable work being carried out under.............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=87409 The Chilean Salmon Industry Association (SalmonChile) donated USD 982,000 within the ambit of the local campaign “Chile helps Chile” which gathered USD 59.3 million last Saturday to help victims of the earthquake that recently trembled Chile. Christian Pérez SalmonChile’s contribution included transportation of 10 million liters of water (equivalent to USD 363,500); 100 thousand meals based on salmon (valued in USD 422,000) and USD 196.500 cash. This donation was symbolically delivered by the SalmonChile’s chairman and............... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&country=0&special=&monthyear=&day=&id=35810&ndb=1&df=0 The ongoing 2010 El Niño could affect the West Coast fishing industry, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. Researchers with the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) at Scripps and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center are observing a stronger than normal northward movement of warm water up the Southern California coast, a high sea-level event in January and low amounts of plankton and pelagic fish. Sea surface temperatures along the entire West Coast are 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius warmer than normal. “Based on our previous experience of El Niño in California, it is likely to reduce ocean production below.................. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11878/worldwide-aquaculture-guidelines GLOBAL - The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Aquaculture Service is calling for contributions to the development of a worldwide overview and databank of Codes of Practice, Codes of Conduct, Best (Better) Management Practices, Technical Guidelines, etc. in aquaculture. Jiansan Jia, Head of the Aquaculture Service at FAO said: "We would like to invite all those interested in the promotion of sustainable aquaculture development to advise FAO of the existence of COP/BMP documents in their countries or regions. "In particular, all aquaculture producer associations and farmer organisations are encouraged to send to FAO their............. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11862/bc-salmon-farmers-defend-farmed-salmon CANADA - The British Columbian Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) has hit back at recent publicity which discussed the impacts of farmed salmon on wild stocks. In a letter to Bob Epstein, Executive Producer NBC Nightly News, Mary Ellen Walling Executive Director of BCSFA said that the facts presented were far from the truth. "To say that farmed salmon are the cause of the sea lice infestations is simply............. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11866/largest-ever-carp-seized During the early hours of Friday, 26 February 2010, UK Border Agency officers at the Port of Dover, working in conjunction with the government's Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI), intercepted the largest ever consignment of live carp from France. The 120 fish, weighing between 25 and 50lbs, were discovered in four pallet-sized containers supported by oxygen cylinders in the rear of a Volvo FH12 lorry. The FHI, based at Cefas, advises that it is illegal to import live coldwater fish unless........... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://aquacomgroup.com/wordpress/2010/03/07/agricultureaquaculture-2-0-on-march-24th-2010/#more-483 Agriculture/Aquaculture 2.0 is less than a month away, and the response has been astounding. Already, we have over 200 confirmed attendees and each one represents an opportunity to connect with someone who will impact the future of sustainable agriculture in a big way. There is good reason firms like Kleiner Perkins, Khosla, Black River, Foundation Capital, Venrock, Mohr Davidow, RockPort, RedPoint, Flagship and Slow Money are sending delegates: because........... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/13244/Seafish_makes_key_aquaculture_appointment.html SEAFISH, the UK industry authority on seafood, is stepping up its interest in aquaculture, one of the fastest growing sectors in marine food. Seafish has just announced that it has it has appointed Richard Prickett in a consultancy capacity to advise on various aspects of marine finfish aquaculture. The number of new fish farms in Britain is now increasing at............ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=87352 When the Canadian TeleVision (CTV) news station in Vancouver decided to examine the health benefits of consuming farmed salmon compared to wild salmon, the agency fell victim to ratings concerns versus providing professional journalism Everyone vaguely familiar with the debate around the health benefits derived form eating salmon knows that the main reason why people should include fatty fish like salmon- wild or farmed- in their regular diet is the fact that salmon contain more Omega-3 fatty acids than most other food. This point was totally lost in a prime time news report............. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=3-2010&day=8&id=35772&l=e&country=0&special=&ndb=1&df=0 President of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) Anwar Hashim said that early signs of economic revitalization and falling rates of anti-dumping duty show promise for Indian shrimp exports to the US, although he concedes that problems continue. Anti-dumping duties had a major impact on shrimp exports to the US, which consequently plunged from USD 409 million in 2003, before the duty imposition, to USD 142 million afterward in 2008. This dip took place despite the total US shrimp imports rocketing from USD 3.76 billion to........... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11867/mariculture-2010 The third Offshore Mariculture Conference entitled ‘Exploring the progress and prospects for offshore mariculture in European and international waters’, will be held at the Hilton Imperial Hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia from 16-18 June 2010. As in previous years, the two day technical conference will be followed by a third day dedicated to a visit to a fish farm which, this year, will be a Seabass and Seabream farm. The Conference is supported by the European Aquaculture Society, the European Aquaculture Technology Innovation Platform, the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers, the Global Aquaculture Alliance, the Danish Aquaculture Association and HGK, Grupacija akvakulture, the aquaculture affiliation of the Croatian Chamber of Economy and............... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=87396 TechnoPress, organizer company of the AQUASUR exhibition show, reconsidered its previous position -published last week- an decided to postpone the event originally to take place between March 24 and 27 in Puerto Montt, 10th Region. Their decision, which was been taken together with Governmental and industrial representatives, as well as customers and leading industry players is based on the following reasonings "today, the priority of all the Chilean people is rebuilding our country (...) understanding the painful and difficult time that thousands of Chileans are going through at present —which not only caused the death of hundreds of the country’s inhabitants but also left many others homeless or with significant losses— TechnoPress considers that today they are the first priority and that we must focus all our energies on them" the company expressed.............. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&country=0&special=&monthyear=&day=&id=35794&ndb=1&df=0 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck last 27 February caused the loss of containers with frozen salmon in the ports of Talcahuano, Lirquen and San Vicente, and the disposal of fish, mostly jack mackerel. Around 40 per cent of the frozen seafood products that the industry exports is embarked in those port terminals. The loss of containers is a “direct influence” of the earthquake, which is why companies are making an assessment of.............. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11868/aquaculture-goes-green With increasing growth of algae along coast lines, scientists are looking at using aquaculture to remove excess nutrients from the sea says Nicolas Ranninger, from Bord Bia. Increased levels of organic nutrients evident in rivers has led to growth of algae or phytoplankton blooms on the coast line which can result in severe damage to the ecosystem, especially when the decaying algae release decomposing gazes such as hydrogen sulphide and deplete the waters oxygen levels resulting in anoxia. A team of scientists in Kiel on the Baltic coast are developing a pilot experiment to remove the............ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=4294989496 Retailers, not consumers, are the driving force behind corporate social responsibility and farmed seafood certification, said Peter Redmond, the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s VP of development, administration and communications. Redmond was addressing attendees at the World Aquaculture Society’s Aquaculture 2010 conference in San Diego on Tuesday. Redmond, keynote speaker at the five-day event, spent 17 years at Walmart working his way up to the role of VP and divisional merchandise manager for............ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.allaboutfeed.net/news/new-event-during-viv-asia-2011-aquatic-asia-id4189.html At the Victam Asia, VNU exhibitions announced that they will organize a new trade show during VIV Asia in 2011. With this new show – Aquatic Asia – the organizers give buyers and suppliers in aquaculture in the Asia Pacific region a unique opportunity to meet key contacts in the international aqua business.............. Besides main topics in aquaculture such as R&D, production and marketing, the show will have a strong focus on algae production and related aqua activities such as mariculture and capture based aquaculture............ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.vancouversun.com/life/sustainable+fish+pulled+from+Loblaw+shelves/2630722/story.html The parent company of Real Canadian Superstore and T&T Markets has pledged to stop selling non-sustainable fish and immediately removed four at-risk species from Loblaw's 1,000-plus stores across the country. Loblaw-controlled stores sell roughly one third of the seafood sold in Canada. Loblaw has already delisted orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, shark and skate, all of which are.................. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11851/online-matchmaking-with-suppliers-from-vnu With the launch of Animal Protein.net, VNU Exhibitions has introduced online match-making for the worldwide markets for animal production and processing. On Animal Protein.net [click here], buyers active throughout the supply chain now have the unique chance to quickly find the supplier that meets their requirements, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For suppliers, Animal Protein.net provides them with an effective tool to permanently........... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jvsgP43lw99fpRGpelpOVQ4TrYAA The federal government is putting off salmon fishery talks with B.C. First Nations pending the results of an inquiry into declining salmon stocks in the province. Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Tuesday treaty negotiations involving salmon will be deferred until after the inquiry produces it recommendations. Shea said that before the talks continue she wants to see what the inquiry recommends on issues like improving the............ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/invasive-striped-bass-identified-as-major-threat-to-salmon-85535482.html Invasive Striped Bass Identified as Major Threat to Salmon Overwhelming Evidence Provided by State's Own Experts The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta and other water users earlier this week filed for summary judgment in their lawsuit against the California Department of Fish and Game related to the management of striped bass, an invasive species that is known to feed upon endangered salmon and delta smelt........ The California Department of Fish and Game's own experts in the case acknowledged that striped bass predation accounts for the loss of a significant number of........... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11857/creating-a-dream-breed The besugo – known in Latin as Pagellus bogaraveo and in English as blackspot seabream – is a traditional fish on Spanish tables and also savoured on others in Greece, France, Italy and Germany. However, this deep-water species was fast turning into something of a luxury due to overfishing until a company in the fishing region of Galicia embarked on a EUREKA project to find a way to make them affordable for ordinary families. Isidro de La Cal-Fresco, which farms all kinds of fish in A Coruña in Spain, decided in 1997 it should start producing............ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/13236/Iceland_fish_group_denies_British_Seafood_link.html ONE of Iceland's largest seafood businesses has issued a statement stressing in strong terms that it is not affected by the British Seafood collapse even though its main shareholder, Mark Holyoake, is also founder and head of British Seafood. The big Reykjavik based fish producer Iceland Seafood International (ISI) has said: "Further to media coverage of the issues at British Seafood, Iceland Seafood International would like to confirm that British Seafood is not a shareholder of ISI. No financial, legal, funding or operational links exist between........... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=3-2010&day=5&id=35758&l=e&country=0&special=&ndb=1&df=0 The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) Board of Directors announced that Global Trust Certification Ltd has been chosen to perform an independent, third-party certification of Alaska’s fisheries management systems. Under the agreed model, each major Alaska fishery will be assessed for conformance to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the FAO Guidelines for Ecolabelling Fishery Products. “For over 50 years Alaska has been the leader in sustainable fisheries management,” said Ray Riutta............. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/11859/seafood-exporters-hope-business-will-pick-up As the US economy begins to recover, Mr Anwar Hashim President of the Seafood Exporters Association of India (SEAI) said that early signs of economic revival and decreasing rates of anti-dumping duty hold promise for Indian shrimp exports to the US. Anti-dumping duty had a major impact on shrimp exports to the US which plummeted from $409 million in 2003 before the duty imposition to $142 million in 2008, reports The Hindu Business Line . This fall was despite the total US shrimp imports rising from.............. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.seafoodsource.com/newsarticledetail.aspx?id=4294989523 Consumers are increasingly conscious of third-party certified seafood products, said Cathy Roheim, a professor in the University of Rhode Island’s department of environmental and natural resource economics, at the World Aquaculture Society’s Aquaculture 2010 conference in San Diego on Thursday. “What is it that’s driving demand for certified seafood? What is motivating the market for eco-labeled seafood? Is it consumer-driven or is it corporate social responsibility?” asked Roheim, who’s also director of............. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800