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A Brisbane restaurant was fined AU$17,000 after authorities seized 100 illegal crabs from its kitchen. Under Queensland law only male mud crabs over a certain weight can be caught, and it is suspected that these crabs were obtained on the black market. All but one of the crabs were eventually released back into Brisbane River.
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Spain’s Secretariat General of Fisheries plans to hold a series of consultations to decide on its fisheries and aquaculture strategy for the rest of the decade. The meetings will take place in September and October and will include representatives from the aquaculture, fishery and processing sectors. The strategy will be unveiled on November 7 at the Third Congress of Fishery Product Quality.
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Engineering and Technology magazine has fingered aquaculture as the likely solution to meet the protein demands of 2050. Contemporary problems well-known to regular readers like pollution caused by densely packed farms and fish-to-fish feeding can be overcome with plant-based solutions and advances in fish genetics.
Conservation efforts for New Hampshire salmon will come to an end, as the US federal government withdraws its funding for a project to restore Atlantic salmon to the Merrimack River. The 30-year programme has seen little success in recent years, and the latest round of budget cuts saw salmon get the axe.
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| English: Brisbane River downstream from Wivenhoe Dam when the flood gates had been opened for all 5 radial spillway gates. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |