News

• Dioxin topic of AFIA’s first Internet Symposium
  October 1, 2003
  Members, as well as non-members, of the American Feed Industry Association will have the opportunity to participate in the association's first Webcast Technical Symposium on the international scientific conference on dioxin (Dioxin 2003) held recently in Boston.
• 2005 will end Norway's salmon feed quota system
  September 24, 2003
  Market regulation through feed quotas will be discontinued with effect January 1, 2005
• Controversial growth hormone shown to double size of Tilapia
  September 23, 2003
  U.S. scientists see promising results from a genetically modified growth hormone developed for cows
• More Americans eating seafood
  September 22, 2003
  A new survey shows that 47% of all adult Americans consume more seafood now than they did five years ago.
• Nasdaq delists Cyanotech
  September 16, 2003
  Cyanotech Corporation to appeal Nasdaq delisting notification as stock falls below $1.00 minimum bid price per share requirement
• Novus raises Alimet® prices
  September 15, 2003

  Methionine source hiked by US$0.10 per kilo with immediate effect

• Aqua Bounty gets funding for reversible sterility program
  September 15, 2003
  GM salmon breeder, Aqua Bounty Technologies, has been awarded a $1,680,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program to develop a genetic technique that allows fish farmers to breed fish safely in captivity but prevents the same fish from reproducing if they escape into the wild.
• SyAqua to buy Brazil's leading shrimp breeder
  September 15, 2003
  The aquaculture division of biotech company, Sygen International plc., SyAqua, is to acquire Brazil's leading shrimp breeding stock business, Aquatec, for up to US$13.0 million in cash.
• Reproductive Physiologist to Lead Finfish Research at The Oceanic Institute
  September 9, 2003
  The Oceanic Institute, Waimānalo, Hawai‘i, has announced the promotion of Dr. Charles W. Laidley, Ph.D. to Marine Finfish Program Manager
• NEW REPORT: Natural Foods through marine krill meal
  September 9, 2003
  South Antarctic Krill has unique nutritional and quality attributes, which makes it the feed ingredient of the future.
  
• 14th Annual Texas A&M Practical Short Course on Feeds and Pet Food Extrusion
  September 9, 2003
  Next feed extrusion short course set for January 2004
• Canadian salmon returns defy anti-aquaculture activists predictions
  September 9, 2003
  Early B.C. pink salmon returns show Suzuki Foundation claim of pink salmon collapse doesn’t stand up.
• Harvard Study Refutes Mercury 'Survey'
  August 29, 2003
  Fish Consumption Declining Among Women Due to Mercury Warnings
  
• American shrimp group to proceed with anti-dumping suit
  August 20, 2003
  Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) to proceed with action against "unfairly traded imports of foreign shrimp".
• U.S. feed and grain associations lobby for changes to bioterrorism regs
  August 20, 2003
  NGFA, NAEGA hopeful FDA will make major changes to proposed bioterrorism-preparedness regulations
• Farming fish for the future, sustainably
  August 20, 2003
  FAO Sub-Committee on Aquaculture wraps up in Norway
• Akzo Nobel pleads guilty to fixing choline chloride prices
  August 20, 2003
  Canadian Competition Bureau probe nets $2.9 million in fines and guilty plea from Akzo Nobel Chemicals BV
• Farming the tigers of the sea undermines the promise of aquaculture
  August 20, 2003
  Report, now online, points out the high ecological and social costs of farming carnivorous fish
• Contaminants in fish within safe limits
  August 13, 2003
  But you'd never know it from reading some of the newspapers
• FDA Calls Feed Safety Meeting
  August 13, 2003
  Discussion to focus on the potential development of a comprehensive, risk-based animal feed safety system (AFSS

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