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2 hrs ago | Canada NewsWire

Media Advisory - Aquaculture Innovation Projects Receive Federal Funding

MP John Duncan , on behalf of the Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada , will be announcing project funding in support of a sustainable aquaculture industry under the Aquaculture ...

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Wed Jan 07, 2009

American Institute of Biological Scie...

BioScience Tip Sheet - January 2009

The January 2009 issue of BioScience includes the following research articles: Leaf Evolution and Development: Advancing Technologies, Advancing Understanding Heather L. Sanders and Sarah E. Wyatt Advancing ...

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Tue Jan 06, 2009

Central Chronicle

Shrimp does not pay..

Then in 1995-96 a lethal virus, white spot syndrome virus, swept through shrimp farms all over coastal India .

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, World News, India, Ecology, Life, Food, Seafood

Mon Jan 05, 2009

Viet Nam News

Seafood industry swims with the big fish

By diversifying products and enlarging market share, the seafood sector last year earned US$4.27 billion in exports, up from $3.75 billion in 2007 and making Viet Nam the world's eighth largest seafood ...

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Seafood, Agriculture, Science, CPU, Science / Technology

Sun Jan 04, 2009

CBC

Fast-growing fish farming can help the environment, researcher says

A young pink salmon infected with sea lice. Fish farming has had a bad rap, but will continue to grow quickly, may be the only way to meet rising demand for seafood and isn't necessarily an environmental ...

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

Sat Jan 03, 2009

UnionLeader.com

Welcome to the Blue Revolution

The loosening of credit at GMAC has consumers shopping and dealers hopeful. PORTSMOUTH - Like a floating playground, giant high-tech geodesic chambers called AquaPods offer maturation for the muiltitudes -- and ...

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Related Topix: Searsmont, ME, Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Seafood, Sorrento, ME

Newstalk ZB

Farmed seafood demand surging

New Zealand's aquaculture industry is hoping to continue riding the tide of demand for farmed seafood.

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

Fri Jan 02, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Shooting and fishing: Fish farms are killing off our rivers

IT IS NOW PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED that lice from fish farms have been the death of the west coast sea trout fishery and have not done the salmon much good either.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

The New Nation

RAKUB starts special loan scheme for extensive fish farming in N-dists

BSS, Rajshahi The Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank has launched a special loan programme for extensive fish cultivation to increase employment opportunities fulfilling protein deficiency in the northern region in ...

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Marketing, Bangladesh, World News

AndhraNews

Aquaculture production of seafood will continue to grow through 2025

Aquaculture production of seafood will continue to grow through 2025 An assessment has revealed that aquaculture production of seafood will probably remain the most rapidly increasing food production system ...

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Thu Jan 01, 2009

Stuff

Govt announces aquaculture fund

The Government has announced a $600,000 contestable fund to encourage innovative aquaculture projects.

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Related Topix: Seafood, Life, Food

EDP 24

Lowestoft scientists research future of eels

A A 2.5m Europe-wide research programme is under way to find out more about the breeding habits of eels and slow their decline.

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Tue Dec 30, 2008

The Economist

Come, friends, and plough the sea

Now he has started farming the sea, too. The world produced 48 billion tonnes of farmed fish in 2005, worth $71 billion.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

San Francisco Chronicle

Fishing for Support

When it came to fishing, traditional Hawaiian ingenuity knew no bounds, particularly when it came to bringing the fish to the fishermen, rather than the other way around.

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Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaiian Airlines, Airlines, Kaloko Honokohau National Historical Park, US National Parks

Mon Dec 29, 2008

Manawatu Evening Standard

Seafood hub seeks aid

Developers of a $100 million aquaculture and seafood centre want the Government to kick-start its infrastructure.

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Sat Dec 27, 2008

Peace Arch News

Fishing continues to evolve

Aquaculture, or fish farming, has been around world-wide for thousands of years: tilapia were farmed in Egypt 4000 years ago; the Chinese were tending carp in fish ponds 2,500 ago; the Aztecs used a chinampas ...

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

Fri Dec 26, 2008

The Star Online

Remembering tsunami tragedy

GEORGE TOWN: More than 6,000 mangrove saplings will be planted simultaneously in several parts of the country today in remembrance of the 2004 Asian tsunami tragedy.

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Related Topix: Tsunami, Asian Tsunami Disaster, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, World News

Malaysian National News Agency

SAM Urge Govt To Preserve Mangrove Forest

Sahabat Alam Malaysia has urged the government to stop all activities in mangroves forest and pay serious attention to the threat posed by the aquaculture industry which has resulted in the deterioration of the ...

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Related Topix: Tsunami, Natural Disasters

Wed Dec 24, 2008

The Inquirer & Mirror

With scalloping on the wane, some turn to oyster farming

Massachusetts farmers are increasingly sowing seeds and reaping harvests in a rather unexpected place the ocean.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Nantucket, MA, Woods Hole, MA

Malaysian National News Agency

Government Targets To Produce 507,000 Tonnes Of Fish In 2010

KUANTAN, Dec 18 -- The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry is set to increase the national fish production from the current 270,000 tonnes to 507,000 tonnes by 2010.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science

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