http://aquaculture-center.com aquaculture blog, aquaculture news, aquaculture information and aquaculture current issues Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:16:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rick Moyer gazes at the sun-charred bottom of the pond next to his 600-acre catfish farm and shakes his head — another farmer scrambling to stay solvent has drained the pond and will till it for row crops. With soaring prices for just about everything needed to raise their fish — ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/27/fuel-feed-costs-crippling-us-fish-farm-industry/ WINDSOR – Thousands of Europeans will soon be finding homes in Nova Scotia. Thanks to a couple of government loans, a fish farm near Windsor will be growing Mediterranean Sea bass. Sustainable Fish Farming Canada will soon bring in hundreds of thousands of baby fish, said Kirk Havercroft. Restaurants and seafood ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/27/european-sea-bass-farm-coming-to-windsor/ The Government has announced a raft of measures to boost aquaculture — the growing of fish outside their natural habitats. The Fisheries minister, Dr Paul Otuoma, said the Government will increase extension services and set up cold stores while encouraging private-public partnerships in processing and value addition to increase incomes. Dr Otuoma ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/27/minister-spells-out-plans-to-boost-aquaculture/ Mr Tony Killeen TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food today opened a major conference organised by Bórd Iascaigh Mhara (BIM). The Minister also held a formal meeting with the Federation of Irish Fishermen (FIF) to discuss further the immediate issues facing the Irish fishing fleet ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/27/minister-killeen-opens-major-conference-on-innovation-and-sustainability-in-seafood-sector/ BC's largest aquaculture company today announced a commitment to coordinate its operations in the Broughton Archipelago to create corridors during the spring out-migration of wild juvenile fish. Under its Coordinated Area Management Plan (CAMP), Marine Harvest will create migratory corridors in the Broughton Archipelago during the outmigration season from March 1st ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/27/marine-harvest-proposes-operational-changes-in-broughton-to-protect-wild-salmon/ The aquaculture industry continued to experience strong growth as its farm gate value increased by 18 percent to $1.6 million last year, according to a recent report from the state Coastal Resources Management Council. The farm gate value is the net value of the product when it leaves the farm, ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/21/shellfish-harvest-in-aquaculture-on-rise/ SCIENTISTS at Nofima have developed a salmon feed that strengthens the immune defence of salmon so the survival rate after a natural outbreak of the IPN virus increases "dramatically". Professor Kjell-Arne Rørvik at Nofima Marine (formerly Akvaforsk) believes this is an example of the fish feed of the future. "The best way ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/21/researchers-develop-salmon-feed-that-strengthens-immune-system/ Establishing a viable, productive aquaculture industry in the coastal bays while minimizing the potential impact on those who use and enjoy the waters are among the objectives of Maryland’s new 10-member Coastal Bays Aquaculture Development Workgroup formed recently to study the budding industry in the waters in and around the ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/21/expanding-aquaculture-in-coastal-bays/ Huon Aquaculture has bought Southern Ocean Trout, which is based at Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast. It will aquire an 80 hectare lease, a processing plant at Strahan and a hatchery on the River Derwent. Huon Aquaculture's co-owner, Peter Bender, plans to start farming Atlantic salmon in Macquarie Harbour and ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/21/expansion-of-salmon-farms-in-australia/ rine shrimp which were fed a compound called poly-ß-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) were prevented from becoming infected with pathogenic bacteria. Professor Willy Verstraete and colleagues at Ghent University in Belgium reported these findings in the February issue of ‘Environmental Microbiology’. The bacteria Vibrio campbellii are antibiotic resistant and cause significant loss in the ... http://aquaculture-center.com/2008/06/18/use-of-poly-s-hydroxybutyrate-phb-in-aquaculture/