All News articles – Page 5
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NewsIndia – farmed fish for peace
For many small fishermen the invasion of the coast by prawn farms has been a 30-year battle.
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NewsMorocco - fish make land!
World leader in sardine exports and beneficiary of some of the world’s richest territorial ocean stocks, Morocco could now offer major returns for technically savvy investors as it turns inland to harness the potential of its lakes and reservoirs.
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NewsVietnam to expand fisheries sector
Vietnam is about to launch a VND 1,300 billion (US$71 million) investment programme to expand aquaculture production over the next decade in the country’s southern provinces that form the central area of the fish farming sector.
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NewsSouth Korea
South Korea faces challenges as fish imports grow - South Korea’s fishing industry faces numerous challenges over the next decade as the fisheries sector evolves to play a new role in the country’s fast developing economy.
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NewsPhilippines
Efforts to support Philippines fisheries pay off - Fisheries production in the Philippines has grown at an average rate of about 7% a year since 2002 due to a large increase in aquaculture output while the government steps up efforts to develop sustainable coastal and deep water fisheries.
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NewsIndia
Pirates down, tuna up, shrimp flat but fresh scampi rising - India continues to keep its enviable stocks to itself, including booming tuna. It is diversifying and its market is slowly shifting eastwards. Peter O’Neill in New Delhi views the latest picture with Fisheries Development Commissioner, M. K. R. Nair.
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NewsUnited Arab Emirates
UAE: Fisheries study to plan for sustainable development - The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the political and economic alliance that consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates recently launched a three year fisheries survey of demersal fish stocks in the Arabian Gulf.
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NewsSouth Africa
Focusing on business advancement and sustainability - South African fishing companies and fishermen have been grappling with tougher fishing policies, long term commercial fishing rights and reduced quantum, uncertain catches and depleting ocean stocks, and surging diesel prices, reports Tracy Chandler.
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NewsMalaysia
Malaysia aims to increase fisheries production by one third - Malaysia’s fisheries industry has reached the half way stage in the government’s programme to increase the nation’s annual fisheries production by 600,000 metric tons (mt) or one third during the current Ninth Five Year Malaysia Plan (2006-2010).
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NewsNorway
Norway 2008: Herring shoals and cod dreams - Good old herring and brand new cod represent the 2008 catches and the future farming of Norway, reports Hans Morten Sundnes. Norwegian spring spawning herring has grown to be the third largest fish stock in the world and farmed cod is eager ...
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NewsIceland
Drastic quota cuts shake Icelandic fishing industry - It came as a shock to the Icelandic fishing community when the Minister of Fisheries announced last summer that the cod quota would be cut by 33% the following fishing year which started September 1, 2007 and will end August 31, 2008, ...
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NewsCambodia
International support to upgrade Cambodia''s fishery sector - Cambodia’s fishery sector has seen little development during the past three decades as the country continues to recover from the impact of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and the two decades of civil war that followed, reports David Hayes.
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