http://www.growfish.com.au Growfish - Gippsland Aquaculture Industry Network (GAIN) http://www.growfish.com.au/images/News/feeds/NewsbyGFstd.gif http://www.growfish.com.au http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16287Rwanda - March 26, 2012 - Women outnumber their male counterparts in the fish farming industry – and these women have formed over 155 cooperatives across Rwanda, said Dr Wilson Rutaganira, Coordinator of Integrated Installation and Interior Lakes Management Support Project http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16286The Philippines - March 26, 2012 - Tobacco is not only for smoking but this versatile crop has other beneficial uses and industrial products which could generate employment and livelihood. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16285Indonesia - March 26, 2012 - According to GIS data obtained during a recent AusAID and United Nations assessment of the impacts of the Sidoarjo mud flow, 95 per cent of the mangrove forests and estuarine creeks that once lined the coast have been developed into prawn ponds. Despite initial fears, the nearby mud flow has not had a direct impact on the Sidoarjo ponds, but even before the disaster the prawn farms were already in decline. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16284Chile - March 26, 2012 - The House of Representatives approved, on third reading, the bill establishing health standards and land planning for aquaculture. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16283Malta - March 26, 2012 - As Malta published its draft aquaculture strategy this week, it also signed on to a call made by 16 EU member states, including Malta, for the European Union to increase funding for fish farms. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16282United States - March 26, 2012 - Daily routines like the time to wake-up and when you leave for work, weekly routines like what day you do laundry and when you go grocery shopping. For me, Friday is routinely when I enjoy a delicious fish fry. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16281New Zealand - March 26, 2012 - To finish our opinion series this week on the New Zealand King Salmon application to develop eight fish farms in the Marlborough Sounds, we invited each of the writers to have a final say. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16280Europe - March 26, 2012 - Fishnewseu.com recently reported that the WWF have published a list of supposed ‘myths' which it said must be exposed in order to undo the effects of three decades of disastrous fisheries management in Europe. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16279United States - March 25, 2012 - If you've followed the debate in the General Assembly over whether to allow Georgia farm pond owners to introduce the African species tilapia, the matter appears to have died – at least for this session. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16278Malaysia - March 25, 2012 - Sabah is set to become a major lobster producer when a RM2 billion (S$819.9 million) Integrated Lobster Aquaculture Park (iLAP) deal takes off at Pulau Timbun Mata in Semporna. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16277United Kingdom - March 25, 2012 - Rather than eating weird types of fish that I don't really like (as seems to be the sustainable advice), wouldn't it be more ecologically sensible for me to eat farmed fish of a species I do like, that is plentiful because it is farmed? http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16276Guatemala/Taiwan - March 24, 2012 - An agricultural technical mission from Taiwan held an event Wednesday in Guatemala to teach local farmers about tilapia farming. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16275United States - March 24, 2012 - There's been a closely watched experiment floating and bobbing in the eddies off the Big Island of Hawaii. Since July, an unanchored pen stocked with 2,000 hatchery-born fish known as kampachi (related to the more familiar yellowtail) has been drifting in the open ocean, tended by marine biologists from the aquaculture company Kampachi Farms. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16274Mexico - March 24, 2012 - The authorities in three leading agencies in the aquaculture industry requested the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Sonora declares several municipalities in the state as disaster zones on account of the appearance of the white spot disease in farmed shrimp last year. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16273Malta - March 24, 2012 - A consultation process on an aquaculture strategy for Malta has been launched. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16272United States - March 24, 2012 - Enthusiastic activity at the Best Aquaculture Practices and Global Aquaculture Alliance booths during the International Boston Seafood Show reflected continued expansion of the BAP farmed seafood certification program. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16271Norway/Cuba - March 24, 2012 - The National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) is one of several institutions involved in the cooperation project, and will assist Cubans establishing a marine aquaculture industry. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16270Scotland - March 24, 2012 - Controversial plans to impose heavy on-the-spot fines on Scotland's salmon farmers for minor breaches of rules could lead to nearly 1,000 job losses and lose the sector £100 million, industry leaders have warned. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16269Australia - March 22, 2012 - The State Government has endorsed a new beach monitoring and cleanup programme developed by the local Port Lincoln aquaculture industry, which is aimed at minimising the impact of debris on the coastal environment. http://www.growfish.com.au/content.asp?ContentId=16268Scotland - March 22, 2012 - Scientists have been criticised because they refused to object to a new Ross-shire fish farm, despite fears from local residents that it could cause serious parasite problems for wild stocks.