A new body to combat illegal fishing activities has been set up in the Greater Accra region of Ghana, West Africa.
The new body will control, monitor and provide surveillance of every fishing operation within Ghana’s fishery waters.
The move comes after Nayon Bilijo, minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, pointed out that Ghana as well as other countries in the West-Central Gulf area, have been targeted by local and foreign fishing groups and vessels, consequently destroying indigenous fish stocks and putting local communities in a position of poverty and vulnerability.
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According to Indonesian news agency ANTARA, Thailand is keen to learn marine ornamental fish cultivation from Indonesia.
Suseno Sukoyono, head of the human resources development agency at the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, said several of Thailand's fisheries research delegations recently visited Indonesia in the hope of learning more about the country's marine ornamental fish farming.
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has announced that Dr. Donald Lightner, renowned shrimp pathologist will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its GOAL 2013 conference which takes place from 7th - 10th October 2013 in Paris, France.
Dr. Lightner is a shrimp and finfish pathologist at the University of Arizona’s School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, USA. Here he runs the Aquaculture Pathology Diagnostic Laboratory, a reference laboratory for shrimp diseases.
