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SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Evolving consumption trends in the Chinese market present both opportunities and risks for animal protein producers, including the seafood industry, but companies need to strategise for long-term consumer market changes, and get…

13th August 2024

Value over volume – new consumption trends in China offer opportunities

13th August 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Singapore-based aquaculture company Barramundi Group Ltd has recruited Eric Tsang as an independent director. Tsang brings over two decades of extensive experience in institutional banking, investment management and entrepreneurship across the Asia…

13th August 2024

Barramundi Group appoints independent director

13th August 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Dr Grinson George has assumed charge of the Director of the ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), part of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education at India’s Ministry of Agriculture. He…

13th August 2024

India’s CMFRI appoints new director

13th August 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Innovative ways for Caribbean nations to fund and boost their economies are the subject of new research conducted by the UK’s University of Portsmouth.

12th August 2024

Solutions suggested to boost Caribbean fisheries and aquaculture

12th August 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Nofima, the Norwegian food research institute, has conducted an extensive mapping of pigmentation challenges in salmon fillets, revealing significant insights for fish farmers in Norway.

12th August 2024

Nofima maps salmon colour challenges

12th August 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Part of the South African albacore tuna pole and line fishery, represented by ICV Africa, has become the first to successfully achieve MSC certification, after taking part in the In-Transition to MSC…

9th August 2024

MSC certifies first South African tuna fishery

9th August 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Despite natural fluctuations, fishers, divers and scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about unexplained structural decline of European Lobster (Homarus gammarus) in the Netherlands’ Eastern Scheldt lobster fishery. It has also been determined…

9th August 2024

LobStAR launched to get a grip on declining Dutch stocks

9th August 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A report on the implementation of technical measures introduced in 2019 to protect fisheries resources and marine ecosystems has been published by the European Commission.

9th August 2024

EC: Technical measures boosting fisheries sustainability

9th August 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A new report from environmental charity Ecology Action Centre (EAC) suggests that Nova Scotia’s historic swordfish harpoon fleet could increase its earnings by US$2.5 million through the introduction of charter operations and…

8th August 2024

Keeping a swordfish harpoon fishery alive

8th August 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Causing rapid death and high mortality rates, Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) has devastated oyster farming worldwide. The disease is caused by the virus Ostreid Herpesvirus type 1 (OsHV-1) and is capable…

8th August 2024

The world is their oyster: Scientists work on crucial vaccine

8th August 2024