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7 hrs ago | The Baltimore Sun

State to create new bay oyster sanctuaries, push aquaculture

In a move aimed at restoring the Chesapeake Bay's depleted oyster population, Gov.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Martin O'Malley, Baltimore, MD, Dorchester County, MD

Mon Dec 07, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Fishing and shooting

When the WWF, aka World Wide Fund for Nature, who we now call Woof, gets into bed with salmon farmers there is something fishy afoot.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Sun Dec 06, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Squeezed fishermen wary of possible new regulations

Times are tough for Monterey fisherman Pete Bruno. For more than a decade, tighter and tighter fishing regulations have slowed his charter fishing boat business to a trickle.

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Related Topix: Monterey, CA, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro

Sat Dec 05, 2009

Los Angeles Times

A crop from the ocean floor

Reporting from Falmouth, Maine - Paul Dobbins and Tollef Olson admit they still have a kink in their scheme to use seaweed to revolutionize American eating habits, clean the environment, lower the federal trade deficit and make themselves fabulously rich.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Falmouth, ME, Life, Food, Vegetables, Portland Metro, Portland, ME

The Independent

Oyster sanctuaries will play bigger role

The state government announced Thursday new initiatives to help restore the Chesapeake Bay's damaged native oyster population by creating more sanctuaries off limits to watermen and leasing new areas for aquaculture.

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Related Topix: Maryland, Saint Mary's College of Maryland, Patuxent River, MD, 9

Eastern Shore News

Recent nor'easter's impact substantial on clams and crops

Joe Peirson of Ocean Cove Seafood lost about 10 million seed clams in the November nor'easter that pummeled the Eastern Shore.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Seafood, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Chincoteague, VA, Weather, Hurricane Ida

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Gazette.Net

But watermen say state plan to expand reach of oyster sanctuaries is no pearl

Maryland would more than double its network of oyster sanctuaries that are off-limits to fishing and expand areas open to aquaculture leases under a plan announced Thursday by Gov.

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Related Topix: Maryland, 9, Patuxent River, MD

Thu Dec 03, 2009

WBAL-AM Baltimore

O'Malley Outlines Plan To Boost Bay Oyster Population

Governor O'Malley has announced a three-step plan to bring back the Chesapeake Bay's native oyster.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, Life, Food, Seafood

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Newkerala.com

Oceans would be able to feed growing world population in future

Washington, December 2 : In a new study, scientists have determined that the oceans could become the source of food for the increasing human population in the future if steps are taken to expand and improve marine aquaculture.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

The Guardian

Lennox Island First Nation to announce lobster processing facility

The P.E.I. Department of Fisheries Aquaculture and Rural Development has been left out of the loop about plans for a seafood processing facility on Lennox Island.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Seafood

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Saipan Tribune

NMC aquatic lab spurs another tilapia project

Another local businessman has joined the CNMI's aquatic farming landscape with the help of aquaculture officials at the Northern Marianas College.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Mon Nov 30, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Fish Projects to Create 120,000 Jobs

The government has launched fish farming projects in the country that will cost over one billion shillings and it is estimate that it will create 120,000 new jobs.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Providence Journal

Restaurant scene: New foods, prices, atmospheres

Over the past few months, a variety of restaurants have opened their doors offering a multiplicity of foods, prices and atmosphere.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Seafood, Little Compton, RI, Hopkinton, RI

Freerepublic.com

Japanese company raises safe puffer fish [fugu]

An aquaculture company in Japan says it raised 50,000 fogu, or puffer fish, that are non-poisonous when consumed.

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The Huffington Post

Joseph B. Treaster: United Nations Food Leader On Defeating Hunger

Food supplies have been reduced by floods and droughts. But more importantly, they have been hit by financial pressures.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Alternative Energy, Energy, University of Miami

Sun Nov 29, 2009

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Fishing for survival

This is the first in an occasional series on the future of Louisiana's struggling seafood industry.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Seafood, Louisiana, Agriculture, Science

Sat Nov 28, 2009

The Independent

Commercial fish farms 'wiping out' wild salmon

An explosion in commercial fish farming has caused a huge fall in the population of wild salmon, with 15 per cent of salmon rivers in Europe and North America found to be barren in a survey by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Fri Nov 27, 2009

New Jersey Farmer

NJFB hosts 91st annual convention in Princeton

Fisher: State's ag industry impressive, but it can be better By SEAN CLOUGHERTY Associate Editor PRINCETON - "I am constantly exposed to the best that agriculture has to offer." That was the sentiment from Douglas Fisher, New Jersey secretary of agriculture, to the delegate body of the New Jersey Farm Bureau 91st annual convention.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Shetland Today

Fish farmers hit by salmon disease to benefit from new European funding

Fish farmers in Shetland who were affected by the outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia in the past year are among those to benefit from the latest round of European fisheries grants worth more than A 9 million.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Seafood, World News, United Kingdom, Europe

Tue Nov 24, 2009

The Nelson Mail

Aquaculture changes will come at cost - experts

Recreational and commercial fishermen are concerned about the possible loss of water space if plans to expand the marine farming industry take off.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Oceania, New Zealand, World News

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