Aquaculture News

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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