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The next GAIN General Meeting will be held  on the 23th April 2007 commencing at 1PM to 3:30PM. Venue is the DPI offices in Hotham St Traralgon. 

The General meeting will be preceded by a GAIN executive committee meeting.

GAIN has an open forum policy. All GAIN members are welcome to attend the Executive meetings.

General Meetings are open to anyone who wishes to attend. Please contact Tony McLennan if you would like further information.

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As part of our ongoing endeavour to promote the aquaculture industry and to keep industry members informed of events both locally and internationally we are pleased to announce that the highly popular GROWfish News is now freely available for anyone to include on their own website. We have developed a very simple system that involves the inclusion of a single line of code in a webpage that will automatically generate the latest headlines (as shown below) directly from the GROWfish website. This provides any website with fresh content updated on a daily basis and encourages users to return to the site where the news feed is located. For more information and examples of how the news feed can be implemented on your website CLICK HERE!
 
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We recently featured OnlineConversion in this section as a handy resource. This site allows you to convert almost anything you care to name to anything else. There are over 5,000 different units and 30,000 different conversions available.

One of the responses that we received was from Steve Diver at ATTRA -
(Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) in the US. ATTRA have compiled a webpage that includes a multitude of conversion tools and calculators that are specifically for the Agribusiness sector. Well worth a look and definitely should be added to your Favorites. Many thanks to Steve on behalf of everyone.
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Pisciculture gains popularity among entrepreneurs
source: NewIndPress
India - May 13, 2008 - With pisciculture gradually gaining popularity among prospective entrepreneurs due to export demand and rising fish consumption in the State, the sector provides ample opportunity for self-employment. [Full Story]
Chile salmon woes sinking Cermaq
source: Patagonian Times
Chile/Norway - May 12, 2008 - The world’s second largest farmed salmon company, Norwegian-owned Cermaq (Mainstream), released a sobering first quarter earnings report Friday, citing losses of US$7.2 million compared to the same quarter last year. [Full Story]
Ministry to secure 40 million dollars for fish farmers
source: My Joy Online
Ghana - May 12, 2008 - The Ministry of Fisheries is to contract a 40- million dollar loan from the Chinese Government to begin a 2,000 hectare fish farming project on River Pra at Shama in the Western Region. [Full Story]
Soft term loans make fish industry profitable
source: The Post
Pakistan - May 12, 2008 - Proactive involvement of private sector, high fish production and soft term loans to the farmers has made the fish farming a profitable industry in the province. [Full Story]
Chelannur set to have farm
source: NewIndPress
India - May 12, 2008 - In an effort to lift the standard of ornamental fish farming sector the National Aquaculture Society headquartered in Kozhikode is all set to put up a fish farm exclusively for ornamental fish, in Chelannur. [Full Story]
Aquaculture firm brings life to tanks
source: Bradenton Herald
United States - May 12, 2008 - The Midnight Sun Aquaculture business they started about a year ago grows brightly colored corals, anemones and other aquatic life that are prized by saltwater aquarium owners. [Full Story]
Shellfish company goes into liquidation
source: Sunday Business Post
Ireland - May 11, 2008 - A Cork firm that bred expensive shellfish has gone into liquidation, with debts of more than €2 million, after failing to secure new investment. [Full Story]
Otters, cormorants and mink fail to stop firm's growth
source: Lynn News
United Kingdom - May 11, 2008 - Compton Hall Farm is branching out into fish farming by breeding common and mirror carp, a delicacy increasingly stocked by supermarkets in response to demand from workers from eastern Europe. [Full Story]
Pest sea squirt found at Marsden Cove
source: Scoop NZ
New Zealand - May 11, 2008 - A ‘relatively abundant’ infestation of the unwanted marine sea squirt ‘Styela clava’ has been discovered during a routine sweep of the new Marsden Cove Marina by a dive team contracted to Biosecurity New Zealand. [Full Story]
Govt to visit shrimp farms, processing plants
source: Independent Bangladesh
Bangladesh - May 11, 2008 - A government delegation will visit shrimp farms and processing plants on May 15, based on a recent report by a US labour organisation, commerce adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman said Friday [Full Story]
Sardine firm takes over Tawi-Tawi multi-species hatchery
source: The Inquirer
The Philippines - May 11, 2008 - Tawi-Tawi has leased its multi-species hatchery to sardine industry leader Mega Fishing Corporation (MFC), under an agreement signed here by Governor Sadikul Sahali and MFC president William Lim. [Full Story]
Finding Nemo is now easier in R.I.
source: Providence Business News
United States - May 11, 2008 - Nemo, the cute clownfish who starred in Walt Disney and Pixar Studios’ 2003 digital animation blockbuster, “Finding Nemo,” begins his adventures in the Coral Sea of his native Australia. [Full Story]
Salmon warning as EU to drop minimum price rules
source: The Herald
Scotland/Europe - May 10, 2008 - Silence descended on Scotland's salmon farming industry last night when it emerged the European Union is preparing to drop its anti-dumping measures against Norway. [Full Story]
CCTV to guard salmon farms
source: Marlborough Express
New Zealand - March 10, 2008 - People intent on salmon snatching from NZ King Salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds will soon find themselves featuring on CCTV. [Full Story]
Fishmeal and oil market outlook for the rest of 2008
source: Daily Seafood News
Global - May 10, 2008 - The picture for fishmeal and fish oil is not great this year in terms of prices. A series of factors, different from its use in aquaculture, can explain the volatility in this market. [Full Story]
Shrimp farm goes full blast with expansion
source: Saipan Tribune
Micronesia - May 10, 2008 - Saipan SyAqua Aquaculture hopes to increase production of shrimp by 200 percent with the expansion of its shrimp growing facility in China Town. [Full Story]
Aquaculture production strategy smells a bit fishy to some
source: The Age
Australia - May 8, 2008 - The Victorian Government has launched a strategy that promises to triple aquaculture output, but the plan has been greeted with criticism and cynicism. (with editoral comment) [Full Story]
Oyster farmers tackling water weeds
Australia - May 8, 2008 - Tasmanian oyster farmers in Little Swanport are winning the fight to save the town's estuary from an introduced rice grass. [Full Story]
New pest strategy launched for Irish farms
source: Fish Farmer Magazine
Ireland - May 8, 2008 - Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mary Coughlan and Minister of State John Browne have launched a new strategy for improved pest control on Irish salmon farms. [Full Story]
Mississippi catfish industry in trouble
source: WJTV News
United States - May 8, 2008 - Mississippi catfish farms are facing increasing costs everyday. The price of feed for the fish doubled in the last year or so, leaving independent farmers with costs they could not meet. [Full Story]
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The Globalisation of GAIN .
29th August 2006
How is it that a small regional group of volunteers with a passion for the development of aquaculture in their region reached out to the world? This article covers some of the history of the organisation's internationalisation.
Innocently, we replied asking what type of an organization were they seeking contact with and were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response. We subsequently found out that the OFB had sent some two hundred emails to every aquaculture body in Australia, and GAIN was the only one to respond..
[Full Story]
Marching To The Beat Of A Better Drum (Filter).
29th November 2004
A problem with a drum filter has led pioneering Victorian recirculation aquaculture operators Stephen and Catherine Kanara to develop a new, cost effective, performance oriented drum filter suitable for most operational requirements.
When installed in a problem environment the filter not only improved the general system performance, but increased carrying capacity AND reduced the farm’s overall labour requirement..
[Full Story]
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