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Bua tilapia farmer earns $1,920 from first prawn harvest
Fijivillage
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Tilapia farmer Ropate Ratu Tuiwainunu from Nadua Village in Wainunu, Bua is celebrating his first successful prawn harvest, which has earned about $1,920 at the current market price of $40 per kilogram. The Ministry of Fisheries Aquaculture Team...
Boutique to bold: Setting the stage for Maine’s aquaculture growth
Aquaculture North America
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June 17, 2025
An expanding aquaculture sector in Maine has prompted a multi-year, interdisciplinary collaborative research project to gain a better understanding of the seafood sector’s value chain. The findings paint a picture of the challenges and...
Trump administration reverses aquaculture sector’s brief exemption from ICE raids
SeafoodSource
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U.S. aquaculture operations will not be exempt from the federal government’s increased worksite immigration raids, despite earlier reports that the administration of President Donald Trump would pause raids on large swaths of the food and...
Asian Seabass Farming: A Guide to High-Yield Aquaculture in Freshwater, Brackish, and Marine Systems
Krishi Jagran
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June 17, 2025
Sea Bass starts life as male and transforms into a female once it reaches adulthood typically after 4 kg of weight. (Image Source: TNAU) For Indian farmers who want to increase their income from aquaculture, seabass farming is a golden goose....
Expert: 'Great potential' for black pepper as Guam's export product
Pacific Daily News
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A visiting agronomy researcher on Saturday told farmers and other residents at a forum that black pepper, often called the “king of spice,” has a “great potential” to become an export product for Guam. The University of Guam’s Cooperative...
Pastoral crisis: 11 states embrace FG ranching plan as killings surge
Punch
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June 22, 2025
•Govs offer lands, Adamawa, Bayelsa, others cautious, farmers reject open grazing Eleven states are taking steps to commence ranching as a way to address the age-long violent clashes between herders and farmers, which have claimed several lives,...
Vietnam province bets on tilapia to strengthen aquaculture resilience
The Fish Site
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Aquaculture continues to be a vital economic sector for Tra Vinh, which has made significant investments in infrastructure. The province completed 11 major projects and is set to carry out 14 additional ones between 2026 and 2030, with a total...
DNREC passes new regulations for shellfish aquaculture
Delaware Public Media - Delaware
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June 16, 2025
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control updated its shellfish aquaculture regulations. The Shellfish Aquaculture Task Force formed in January 2024 and met six times to develop recommendations for the industry in...
Promoting Sustainable and Circular Aquaculture: Policy Report Provides Strategic Recommendations for Germany and Brazil
Bioengineer.org
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June 16, 2025
As global demand for seafood continues to surge, aquaculture has emerged as a vital pillar in securing sustainable food supplies for a growing population. Currently, more than half of the fish, mussels, crustaceans, and algae consumed worldwide...
Mapping the genetic landscape of yellow catfish for sustainable aquaculture
EurekAlert!
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Researchers used ten microsatellite markers to evaluate the genetic structure of six populations from the Yangtze, Huaihe, and Ussuri River basins. The northern Ussuri population stood out for its lower diversity and significant genetic separation...
DPM Zahid: Fisheries sector nets RM300m in 13MP funding for upgrades, aquaculture, and training
Malay Mail
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June 16, 2025
PUTRAJAYA, June 16 — The government will allocate RM300 million under the 13th Malaysia Plan (13MP) to implement two key fisheries schemes aimed at safeguarding marine resources and improving fishermen’s welfare, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri...
Nestlé enters research collaborations to explore innovative aquaculture approach
Process & Control Today
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16/06/2025 Nestle UK Ltd Transforming the world's food and agriculture systems is essential to feed the growing global population within planetary boundaries. To support this transition, Nestlé is engaged in research collaborations exploring...
Senate OKs aquaculture feed mill plant construction in Capiz
Panay News
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June 15, 2025
CAPIZ – The Senate has approved the construction of an aquaculture feed mill plant in Barangay Bahit, Panay, Capiz, with 21 senators voting in favor of the measure on June 9, 2025. No senator voted against the bill, and none abstained. The...
DoST funding efforts to curb disease in farmed shrimp
Business World
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June 22, 2025
THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) said it is funding a project that addresses viral disease in farmed shrimp using RNA interference-based technology. Researchers from the University of Santo Tomas are developing antiviral protection...
Program for college students from migrant backgrounds in peril
Spokane Public Radio - Washington State
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June 22, 2025
The future of a decades-old federal program that helps thousands of migrant students get to college is in literal double jeopardy following delayed federal inaction and President Donald Trump’s signature bill that would eliminate it entirely. The...
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans visits Malta
Gozo News
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June 22, 2025
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis, has just completed a two-day official visit to Malta, which the Government said, is “further strengthening collaboration between Malta and the European Union in the fisheries and...
World's first self-propelled deep-sea aquaculture vessel launched in S. China's Guangdong to ensure Greater Bay Area 'fish freedom'
Global Times
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Photo: CCTV World’s first self-propelled deep-sea aquaculture vessel with a pollution-free seawater exchange system was successfully launched in Jiangmen, South China’s Guangdong Province on Tuesday, marking the start of a new era of China’s...
Scarinci: They Are Eating the Dogs, the Cats and the Octopus
New Jersey Globe
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June 22, 2025
Legislation sponsored by Sens. Nilsa I. Cruz-Perez (D-5) and Douglas J. Steinhardt (R-23) to ban octopus farming in New Jersey is not only morally and ethically correct, but it has strong scientific merit. Research increasingly supports what many...
Recap Aquaculture Canada 2025’s last few days: Cooke addresses crowd, interviews with Undercurrent
Undercurrent News
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June 13, 2025
Undercurrent News was reporting live from the Aquaculture Canada conference, hosted in New Brunswick by the Aquaculture Association of Canada, June 8-11. Recap below all the news from the final few days of the event below: Aquaculture industry...
Selling seafood, not just growing it, is real test for aquaculture startups, RAS investors agree
Undercurrent News
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June 13, 2025
SAN DIEGO, California -- Technological innovation alone cannot guarantee success in the rapidly evolving landscape of seafood production, aquaculture investors and land-based fish farmers advised at the investors' forum at the RASTech conference...