Parasite threat to trout and salmon 19 June, 2009 - Stocks of the UK’s Atlantic salmon along with varieties of domestic brown trout could be under threat from a deadly parasite according to research led Bournemouth University (BU) published in the International Journal of Parasitology. (328 words) More . . .
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Abalone Aquaculture Dialogue to meet in Thailand next month 19 June, 2009 - The Abalone Aquaculture Dialogue will convene its next meeting in Pattaya, Thailand to encourage producers, conservationists, scientists and others to provide input on the development of global standards for the abalone farming industry – an industry that produces almost 70 per cent of the abalone consumed worldwide. (402 words) More . . .
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Farne Salmon owner faces takeover bid 15 June, 2009 - THE 400 plus strong workforce at Farne Salmon and Trout production's centre at Duns on the Scottish Borders could soon find they are under a change of leadership. (247 words) More . . .
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Award for University of Stirling professor 15 June, 2009 - Professor Randolph Harvey Richards CBE, director of the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling, recently travelled to the Faroe Islands to receive the prestigious award for Excellence in European Aquaculture. (534 words) More . . .
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Professor Brian Austin
University of Stirling Appoints New Head of Aquaculture 12 June, 2009 - Stirling University’s reputation as a world-class centre for marine sciences has been bolstered by the appointment of Professor Brian Austin as the head of the Institute of Aquaculture. (293 words) More . . .
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The GLOBALGAP Tour 2009 12 June, 2009 - The agricultural certification organization, GLOBALGAP, is organizing a series of aquaculture workshops across the world for auditors, quality managers and technical advisors. (147 words) More . . .
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NEW ISA CASE IN CONTROL ZONE 22 May, 2009 - The presence of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) has been confirmed on a fifth salmon farm within the existing ISA control zone in the South West of Shetland.The farm is close to the farms confirmed as being infected earlier in the year. (279 words) More . . .
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Salmon Producer Nets Top Award For Major Achievements In Fish Welfare 29 May, 2009 - A Sutherland-based salmon producer has received a prestigious award from the RSPCA’s farm assurance and food labelling scheme Freedom Food. (353 words) More . . .
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SEAFISH ANNOUNCES 2009 SEAFOOD AWARDS WINNERS 22 May, 2009 - London, 22 May 2009. At an awards ceremony held in London’s Grosvenor Square last night, Seafish, the authority on seafood, announced the winners of the 2009 Seafood awards. (395 words) More . . .
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FRESH START FOR SCOTLAND'S AQUACULTURE 22 May, 2009 - A new strategy aimed at increasing Scotland's share of the world's fastest growing food-producing sector has been unveiled. As the largest producer of farmed salmon in the European Union, and the third largest in the world, Scotland's aquaculture industry is a major success story. (324 words) More . . .
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‘Blue Seas Thinking’ as cabinet secretary launches Scottish Fisheries Project 22 May, 2009 - An historic partnership of the Marine Stewardship Council and the Scottish Government has come together today to launch a new project that will boost the environmental credentials of Scotland’s fisheries. The MSC Scottish fisheries project is part-funded by the Scottish Government and will make it easier for Scottish fisheries to access MSC certification and the coveted MSC eco-label for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. (471 words) More . . .
Recruitment
Technical Support Engineer 22 May, 2009 - We have a vacancy for an Aquaculture Engineer to provide technical advice and guidance primarily to the fish farming industry but also covering the wider aquaculture industries within the UK and Ireland. (200 words) More . . .
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Fishing Safety Co-ordinator - Scotland 07 May, 2009 - (160 words) More . . .
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Key meeting for trout aquaculture 28 April, 2009 - The process of creating global standards for responsible trout aquaculture will move forward when the Freshwater Trout Aquaculture Dialogue meets next month in the Faroe Islands, one of the top regions in the world for producing farmed trout. (371 words) More . . .
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Bjorn Hersoug
Aquaculture needs to learn from experiences 22 April, 2009 - Bjorn Hersoug of the University of Tromso has called for the aquaculture industry to learn from past experience or risk repeating unsustainable growth followed by collapsing production and employment. (280 words) More . . .
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Dr Alex Obach
Skretting trials reveal major reduction of fishmeal in salmon grower feeds 22 April, 2009 - Results from a series of salmon feeding trials run by Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) revealed a new low limit for fishmeal in salmon grower feeds. The trials, conducted on fish from 1 to 5 kg, showed excellent growth and a low feed conversion rate (FCR) on salmon given feed with 15% fishmeal and no land animal protein. (352 words) More . . .
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Seafish welcomes proposal for Common Fisheries Policy reform 22 April, 2009 - Seafish, the authority on seafood, welcomes the Commission’s green paper on reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) which was released today. (172 words) More . . .
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Fishmeal and fish oil will be strategic raw materials for a long time yet 22 April, 2009 - Fishmeal and fish oil will be essential raw materials in fish feed for many years to come but continuing research will ensure they deliver increasing production and consumer benefits from a sustainable supply. (527 words) More . . .
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Code of good practice not followed in Shetland salmon disease outbreak 20 April, 2009 - The outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia in Shetland this year may have been aggravated by a code of good practice for Scottish Finfish Aquaculture not being fully complied with, it has been claimed. (476 words) More . . .
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Cage farmers and fishers co-operate in West Java 20 April, 2009 - Stakeholder groups have made progress in the development and implementation of co-management strategies in the Jatilnuihur, Cirata and Saguling reservoirs of the Ciratum watershed in West Java. These strategies will ensure the long term sustainability of the cage culture activities and improve the livelihoods of capture fishers of the three reservoirs, which collectively account for the production of nearly 700,000 tonnes of food fish annually. (277 words) More . . .
New Zealand Thames shellfish farm plans approved 15 April, 2009 - The New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries has made a preliminary decision to approve the 1,783 hectare Wilson Bay Interim Aquaculture Management Area in the Firth of Thames. Of this area, 520 hectares has been zoned for shellfish farming, with the remainder being access-ways between marine farm blocks.
SARNISSA project meets in Cameroon 06 April, 2009 - The EC funded Sustainable Aquaculture Research Networks for Sub Saharan Africa (SARNISSA) project held a series of meetings and workshops in Yaounde, Cameroon between February 24-28th in order to develop progress made in its first year. (468 words) More . . .
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