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PhD candidate Project Integrated landbased aquaculture of algue and shellfish
Job description
Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture has gained a great deal of interest because it is based on efficient use of nutrients and reduction of environmental impacts. Innovation in bivalve shellfish culture aims at new land-based culture systems as an alternative for extensive culture and for the culture of new species. This innovative approach to land-based bivalve [...]
‘Aquaculture could save NMI’
The Commonwealth is poised to start a significant aquaculture industry with a host of proposals to spur its growth now in development, according to experts at a workshop held Thursday.
Aquaculture is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide and proponents of it believe Saipan and the surrounding islands are an ideal location for the industry to take [...]
Australis Aquaculture hooks into Vietnam
Sustainable sea food producer Australis Aquaculture Ltd has begun stocking its Vietnam production operations.
The Perth-based company says 230,000 Barramundi fingerlings are now in place in the Van Phong Economic Zone in central Vietnam.
Australis aims to produce 10,000 tonnes of Barramundi a year in Vietnam within five to seven years, with hopes of making a six [...]
30,000 salmon escape farm pen
A lone commercial seiner combed waters around Frederick Arm north of Campbell River yesterday in a vain effort to catch 30,000 escaped farm-raised Atlantic salmon.
The escape was one of the biggest for Marine Harvest Canada, the largest aquaculture business in the province.
It renewed First Nation, NDP and environmentalist calls for the industry to move to [...]
