04/08/2014: Insects in our food chain
Insects are part of the traditional diets of approximately two billion people worldwide. Insects can contribute to food security and be a part of the solution to protein shortages, given their high...
View Article05/08/2014: Fortress pens to stop seals from taking farmed salmon
Seals are a regular sighting around Atlantic Salmon Farms and one of the industry’s biggest problems.But it won’t be for long. Australia's Huon Aquaculture is rolling out new ‘fortress pens’, the...
View Article05/08/2014: Piracy resurgent in SE Asian waters
There are likely to be a number of factors behind the resurgence of Southeast Asian piracy.Importantly, the focus of many of the region’s navies nowadays is on offshore international anti-piracy...
View Article05/08/2014: Sea Shepherd fined for oil spill
Anti-whaling organisation Sea Shepherd has been fined Aus$15,000 (US$14,100) for spilling approximately 500 litres of diesel from the vessel 'Sam Simon' in 2012.The vessel, a recently acquired...
View Article05/08/2014: New aquaculture group established in Singapore
Although Singapore is not an aquaculture nation on the global map, this did not prevent a group of zealous aquaculture investors and professionals from forming the Institution of Aquaculture Singapore...
View Article05/08/2014: Pacific Islands Forum update
The 45th annual meeting of Pacific Island leaders has officially begun in Palau with a message about protecting the world's oceans.Political leaders and ministers from Pacific nations have been...
View Article06/08/2014: The Aquaculturists provides a weekly 'e-News Update' free
The Aquaculturists blog is receiving in excess of 14,000 unique views per month - and the number of aqua industry specialists finding us from around the world is growing all the time.For the past few...
View Article06/08/2014: Watch sharks striking a shark cam and read about the croc vs...
The great white shark is 'great' for a reason: It’s a massive, powerful predator that ambushes its prey from below, writes Jason Bittel for the National Geographic.Now, thanks to an underwater robot,...
View Article06/08/2014: Ships urged to slow down to protect whales off the coast of...
A program being launched off the California coast this summer will tackle two environmental problems posed by thousands of cargo ships that ferry goods to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long...
View Article06/08/2014: Pollution triples mercury levels in ocean surface waters
The amount of mercury near the surface of many of the world’s oceans has tripled as the result of our polluting activities, a new study has found, reports The Guardian website. This has potentially...
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07/08/2014: Dr Francisco Saraiva Gomes joins Pontos Aqua Holdings as its CEO
Pontos Aqua Holdings, LLC, (‘Pontos Aqua’) is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr Francisco Saraiva Gomes as its Chief Executive Officer.Dr Saraiva Gomes is an executive specialising in the...
View Article07/08/2014: How American seafood goes almost everywhere except America
by Adam Wernick, a freelance writer and a theater composer in St. Paul, Minnesota“The United States controls more ocean than any country on Earth," says Paul Greenberg, author of the new book, American...
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07/08/2014: Unusual fish tales eminating from Port Aransas in USA
“Port Aransas, where the fish bite everyday,” simply does not capture the essence of three fish stories reported since Sunday from a town formerly known as Tarpon, Texas. the Texas coast line and Port...
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07/08/2014: Slow economic growth forecast based on an aging population
The unprecedented pace of aging will impose a demographic tax that will slow economic growth over the next 20 years in both developed and emerging market economies, as working-age populations shrink...
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07/08/2014: Shellfish have been implicated in norovirus infection
This study presents data obtained from various batches of intact shellfish (oysters, mussels, and clams) and fishery products from a Belgian seafood company over a six-month period. This convenience...
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08/08/2014: Aquaculture does help the poor
by Stephen Hall at WordFishKnowing whether aquaculture in developing countries helps the poorest in communities is an important question for development agencies who want to make pro-poor investments....
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08/08/2014: Keynote speaker from Plymouth University for two-day conference...
Professor Simon Davies, Chair in Aquaculture Nutrition in the University’s School of Biological Sciences, will be among the keynote speakers at Aquatic China 2014 taking place in Beijing in...
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08/08/2014: Most venomous jellyfish yet found off Australia
A giant and extremely venomous jellyfish found off Western Australia’s north-west coast has researchers stumped because it appears to have no tentacles, reports The Guardian website.An example of the...
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08/08/2014: What's weird today report
What glows and why? Seattle-based biologist-turned-artist Eleanor Lutz created a chart of select bioluminescent species, detailing the different compounds that make them glow. Check out his graphic on...
View Article11/08/2014: This could wipe out shark attacks
A program that catches and releases potentially aggressive sharks off the coast of Recife, Brazil, has reduced shark attacks on humans by 97 percent, new research finds.Deploying similar tactics in...
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