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following articles have been hand selected
over the past two weeks and displayed on the
Growfish
website. Updates to the International
Aquaculture News are completed each morning
usually by 11AM Australian EST. |
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Australia -
November 10, 2003 - The long awaited
"Aquaculture in Victoria - Investment
Analysis" for Gippsland will be launched
later this month by the Minister for
Agriculture, Bob Cameron MP. |
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Australia -
November 10, 2003 - The Victorian Opposition
has vowed to expand the state's aquaculture
industry, should it come to power. |
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United States
- November 9,2003 - The first and only U.S.
conch farm has opened in the Florida Keys as
an aquaculture research facility intended to
replenish Florida's dwindling queen conch, a
chewy mollusk prized for its tasty meat.
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United States
- November 9, 2003 - The Maine coast. The
North Woods. These phrases capture the
essence of Maine's geography and natural
heritage. |
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Asia -
November 8, 2003 - Leaders, fishermen and
other residents of a rural atoll in the
Marshall Islands are establishing their
first fisheries conservation programme aimed
at limiting further damage to fishing stocks
depleted by commercial fishing. |
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Australia -
November 8, 2003 - TASMANIA'S primary
industry sector will grow by $500 million
and 2000 jobs in just five years under an
ambitious State Government plan unveiled
yesterday. |
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Scotland -
November 7, 2003 - A CLOSURE-THREATENED
research centre has been saved by a
last-minute rescue package. |
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Ghana -
November 7, 2003 - Mr Edward Martey Akita,
Minister of State in-charge of fisheries has
repeated the government's determination to
remove problems that had confronted the
effective promotion of aquaculture to boost
fish production in the country. |
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United States
- November 7, 2003 - SARASOTA COUNTY --
Seventeen miles inland is a weird place to
find 20,000 Siberian sturgeon swimming
about. But here they are, big, healthy and
meandering around in what look like white,
above-ground swimming pools. |
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Japan -
November 7, 2003 - A herpes virus that has
decimated Japan's carp farms is spreading,
officials said Thursday, as they battled to
contain the country's first known outbreak
of the fish disease. |
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United States
- November 7, 2003 - Watching over 20
rectangular in-ground concrete tanks
brimming with 250,000 lively hybrid striped
bass might appear to be a dream job
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England -
November 6, 2003 - The New England Fisheries
Management Council approved a platform
yesterday that gives fishermen new options
while steering them away from overfishing.
The council has a legal deadline of today to
approve fishing regulations on 12 groundfish
species |
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World -
November 6, 2003 - According to RGA-068N -
Opportunities in Aquaculture, an updated BCC
report, the total worldwide aquaculture
market should have an average annual rate [AAGR]
of 7.3%, rising from $ 65.9 billion in 2003
to $ 93.7 billion in 2008. |
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Australia -
November 7, 2003 - The cooperation between
Jiangsu Ocean and Fisheries Bureau (OFB) and
GAIN continues with the acceptance of an
invitation from OFB and recent visit to
Jiangsu Province to attend the Jiangsu
International AGRIEXPO 2003 at Lianyungang
on October 22nd-24th 2003. |
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Australia -
November 5, 2003 - Heighway Events, the
organizer of the ‘Aquaculture Australia’
exhibition scheduled for Sydney’s Darling
Harbour Conference and Exhibition Centre,
December 3-5, 2003, has announced that the
event will not now take place, following a
low level of international stand bookings.
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Scotland -
November 4, 2003 - BLUEFIN tuna could be
commercially extinct in as little as five
years, due to unregulated fishing which
exploits a loophole in international
conservation quotas, The Scotsman has
learned. |
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Canada -
November 6, 2003 - Salmon farm workers,
suppliers and their supporters turned out in
force today, and purchased nutritious farmed
salmon at stores and restaurants in
Vancouver, Victoria, Campbell River and
elsewhere in a positive response to a
malicious 'international day of action' by
BC-based anti-aquaculture activists.
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Japan -
November 6, 2003 - A herpes virus that has
decimated Japan's carp farms is spreading,
officials said Thursday, as they battled to
contain the country's first known outbreak
of the fish disease. |
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United States
- October 31, 2003 - THE Sea Fish Industry
Authority (Seafish) has today revealed new
research findings on what influences
children’s consumption of seafood.
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United States
- November 3, 2003 - Magallanes region
health authorities have reiterated warnings
about the consumption of sea food given the
extent of the red tide and the recent
discovery of a load of twelve tons of
contaminated shell fish that had to be
destroyed. |
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United States
- October 31, 2003 - By CAAR's own
admission, its grocery store-focused
misinformation campaign against BC's salmon
aquaculture industry is not having the
desired effect. |
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United States
- October 31, 2003 - The Food and Drug
Administration has issued interim rules
under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002
concerning registration and Importation
requirements for domestic and foreign
facilities that manufacture/process, pack,
or hold food for human or animal consumption
in the United States |
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United Kingdom
- November 5, 2003 - Cobbleacre lakes
fishery in north Norfolk is producing
tremendous autumn sport. Stephen Hardy of
Norwich landed a superb carp trio — a 24lb
8oz mirror, and commons at 21lb 8oz and 20lb
6oz. |
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United States
- November 5, 2003 - An exotic Asian carp
species that causes biological and social
problems has been discovered in Lake Pepin,
a large, 21-mile pool of the Mississippi
River in southeastern Minnesota.
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Australia -
November 4, 2003 - The Chair of the
Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA),
Dr Wendy Craik, has been reappointed for a
further three years, Australian Fisheries
Minister Senator Ian Macdonald announced
today. |
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Australia -
November 4, 2003 - Escaped farmed kingfish
are not terrorising the Spencer Gulf by
eating everything in sight, and are in fact
more likely to die of malnutrition. That is
the verdict of a South Australia Research
and Development Institute (SARDI) report
that was released by Fisheries Minister Paul
Holloway in Whyalla on Friday. |
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Canada -
November 4, 2003 - The puffer fish toxin
turns to a non-addictive painkiller, thanks
to the trials by International Wex
Technologies Inc. |
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World -
November 4, 2003 - Over 5,000 marine fish
species are still undetected, according to
first interim report of an ambitious
10-year, $1 billion census initiative.
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Malaysia -
November 3, 2003 - As rising demand for fish
puts pressure on global supply, more
developing nations are turning to
aquaculture or farmed fish. But like other
farmed animals and crops, farmed fish has
also become a target for controversial
genetic tinkering—and ultimately, for
ownership claims on genetically "improved"
breeds. |
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United States
- November 4, 2003 - The issue of fish
farming can raise hackles among all sorts of
people, from gourmets to environmentalists.
I’ve been to dinner parties where a
discussion of farmed salmon has seemed
dangerously close to escalating into blows.
But trout farming at least, it turns out, is
pretty blameless. |
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United States
- November 3, 2003 - As stocks dwindle, a
team of researchers pioneers new ways to
'farm' fish - miles offshore in the ocean's
depths. |
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Scotland -
November 2, 2003 - MAGNUS Linklater’s
article, ‘Ministers must take firm stand
against Norse fish farm invaders’, Comment,
October 19), gave an unduly downbeat and at
times misleading perspective of fish farming
in Scotland. |
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United States
- November 3, 2003 - David Benetti,
associate professor at University of Miami's
Rosenstiel School and head of the
aquaculture programme, has teamed up with
fish farmers in Puerto Rico to produce
almost 10 000 cobia - tasty brown and white
fish which look like sharks with no teeth.
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Australia -
November 1, 2003 - A leading marine
scientist says Western Australia has the
potential to lead the world in the
development of new drugs obtained from sea
sponges. |
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World -
November 1, 2003 - FJORD Seafood Group, the
Brønnøysund based major fish farming company
with production centres in Norway, Chile,
Scotland and the United States has reported
poor, but slightly improved, financial
results for the third quarter of 2003. |
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Australia -
November 3, 2003 - Western Australia - The
Department of Fisheries has released a new
financial computer program to assist one of
the State’s key aquaculture sectors – marron
farming. |
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Mexico -
November 3, 2003 - Dean “Deano” Stefanek
spent 30 minutes battling an enraged 6m
great white shark – and lived. The South
Australian tuna diver has told how he
volunteered to jump into a tuna pen to try
to kill the injured shark. “Somebody had to
do it, no one else was too keen, so I went
in,” Stefanek, 38, said. |
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New Zealand -
November 4, 2003 - The two-year moratorium
on new marine farms is likely to be extended
for nine months as negotiations with Maori
delay the Government's plans to reform the
industry. |
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Malaysia -
November 3, 2003 - Prawn breeders have been
given until the end of the year to stop
illegally importing exotic prawns which
carry viral diseases that could wipe out the
RM763 million prawn-farming industry.
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United States
- November 2, 2003 - Scientists in Woods
Hole join colleagues in studying the
alarming and unexplained trend. |
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Malaysia -
November 2, 2003 - The world needs to do
much more to ensure that oceans and their
rich and varied life-forms, upon which
billions depend for food and livelihoods,
are secure for present and future
generations, writes SHUKOR RAHMAN.
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Canada -
November 3, 2003 - An ad placed in the New
York Times by a BC activist group urging
consumers to stop eating farmed salmon is
both anti-environmental and anti-human
health, says the President of Positive
Aquaculture Awareness, a grass roots group
based in Campbell River. |
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World -
October 32, 2003 - The world’s consumers
have an ever-growing appetite for seafood.
Annually, fishing industries contribute
about $7.5 billion to the U.S. economy and
$82 billion worldwide. And while the ocean
was once believed to house an endless supply
of food, it is now evident that years of
unsustainable fishing have taken a toll on
marine life. |
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Australia -
October 31, 2003 - HARD work from the
Coorong District Council has been paid off
after it won a major award at the 2003
Australian Water Association South
Australian Water Awards on Friday night. The
award is in recognition of a project that
addresses dryland salinity at Bedford by
pumping groundwater into affected areas to
develop new aquaculture industries
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Australia -
October 31, 2003 - Community groups are
being invited to apply for $60,000 worth of
grants to improve fish habitats in the
Clarence catchment. |
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United States
- Novenber 2, 2003 - Once known nationwide
for its waterfowl, the Illinois River has
earned a new distinction. |
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Australia -
October 31, 2003 - PILCHARD fishermen and
environmentalists have condemned a plan by
MG Kailis to put an empty sea cage near
Remark Island. |
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Asia - October
30, 2003 - AS THE world's top exporter of
ornamental fish, it takes just one day for
Singapore dealers to deliver their products
to any one of 80 countries. |
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Australia -
October 29, 2003 - The Australian Fisheries
Management Authority (AFMA) Chair Wendy
Craik today announced that AFMA’s Managing
Director, Frank Meere would leave the
Authority early next month after four years
in the top job. |
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Canada -
October 30, 2003 - Canada's aquaculture
industry rebounded in 2002, with higher
production compensating for lower prices for
farmed salmon, says Statistics Canada.
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Australia -
October31,2003 - A SWAN Marsh peat mine
yesterday held an open day to showcase a $1
million upgrade and publicly announce a
five-year deal with an aquaculture company
to farm yabbies in its disused mines.
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Brunei -
October 30, 2003 - Investment opportunities
in the fisheries industry have a wide
potential to be developed and explored by
local and joint venture firms as part of the
government effort to increase the
contribution of fisheries to the national
GDP. |
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United Kingdom
- October 30, 2003 - IRISH researchers say
that interbreeding between wild and
cultivated salmon could lead to the
extinction of fragile Atlantic salmon
populations. |
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Australia -
October 30, 2003 - Thousands of fish will be
stocked into Queensland dams over summer as
part of a Department of Primary Industries
project to develop the best stocking
strategies and provide new fishing
opportunities for recreational anglers. |
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Australia -
October 29, 2003 - People wanting to get
into the aquaculture industry but have been
scared off by high set up costs, lack of
knowledge and limited space may soon have an
alternative. |
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United States
- October 29, 2003 - Fearing additional
Asian carp may be in Lake Pepin, the
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
said Tuesday it will conduct additional test
netting this fall in the lake and other
stretches of the Mississippi River.
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European Union
- October 28, 2003 - 'Dominance of the
commercial fisheries sector on new regional
advisory bodies will impede progress towards
sustainable management of fish stocks', says
European Anglers Alliance |
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United States
- October 28, 2003 - With energy and
aquaculture industry insiders waiting in the
wings, the U.S. government quietly lays
plans to sell off one of the few remaining
public commons -- the ocean's continental
shelf |
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New Zealand -
October 29, 2003 - Exceptionally good water
quality in Northland's Bream Bay has led to
the earlier-than-expected expansion of the
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research (Niwa) Aquaculture Park.
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United States
- October 28, 2003 - Mississippi Delta
freshwater shrimp growers hope a study under
way by Mississippi State University will
define the best way to market and price
their crop. |
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Australia -
October 27, 2003 - Redclaw crayfish
producers are being urged to forge closer
links with aquaculture researchers to take
advantage of new technology than can deliver
faster growth rates and higher
profitability. |
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Australia
October 27, 2003 - TASMANIAN Aborigines
should be granted a share of the state's
commercial fishing quotas, a national
conference will be told today. |
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United States
- October 16, 2003 - In past years there has
been considerable debate surrounding
industrial fish farming methods on an
international scale. |
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United States
- October 27, 2003 - When executive chef Sam
Hayward serves oysters, he wants them to be
grown in Maine. "I try to get Maine oysters
above all others," said Hayward, chef at
Fore Street in Portland, one of the state's
top restaurants. |
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The
cooperation between Jiangsu
Ocean and Fisheries Bureau (OFB)
and Gippsland Aquaculture
Industry Network (GAIN) continues with the
acceptance of an invitation from OFB and recent visit to Jiangsu
Province to attend the Jiangsu
International AGRIEXPO 2003 at
Lianyungang on October 22nd-24th
2003.
GAIN delegates Graeme Blackman and Brian Counihan
were presented with other VIPs
after the opening ceremony to
Jiangsu Province Vice Governor
Huang Lixin before viewing the
extensive agribusiness displays
from all over Jiangsu Province.
The
long awaited "Aquaculture in Victoria - Investment Analysis" will be
launched later this month by the Minister for Agriculture, Bob
Cameron MP.
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