Pointer to lead Australia’s premier marine research agency to develop collaborations and commercial relationships

Nutreco Aquaculture’s first half operating result was EUR 4.0 million, a decrease of EUR 5.6 million compared with the first-half 2003 figure

Conference in Spain to examine the impact of supply and demand on the European shrimp market

The United States Department of Commerce today announced preliminary margins on imported shrimp from Brazil ranging from zero percent to 67.8 percent, from Ecuador ranging from 6.08 percent to 9.35 percent, from India ranging from 3.56 percent to 27.49 percent and from Thailand ranging from 5.56 percent to 10.25 percent. These duties will take effect in approximately one week.

In a blind taste test using fresh Atlantic salmon and fresh wild sockeye, farmed came up trumps

Food containing seafood will have to be labeled as such

The number of BSE cases in British cattle continues to fall at a rate of about 40% per year, a new government report shows; the government has requested Britain's BSE risk status be lowered

The Chairman of the Oceanic Institute Board of Trustees and President of Hawai‘i Pacific University, Chatt G. Wright, has announced the selection of Bruce Anderson, Ph.D. as President of the Oceanic Institute, Waimānalo, Hawai‘i.

Conference moved to Bangkok; Registration now available

Joel Newman, president, United Cooperative Farmers, Fitchburg, Mass., is the new chief executive officer and president of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), succeeding David A. Bossman

The ban on fishing for common and white anchovy (samasa) will begin July 18, 2004 at midnight.

No linkage seen between low mercury levels and reduced neurodevelopmental skills

Modernization of aquaculture a priority

US proposed BSE rules will prohibit inclusion of specified SRMs and materials from non-ambulatory disabled cattle and dead stock from use in all animal feed.

China will send 36 experts and technicians specialized in agronomy, irrigation, livestock and fisheries, to eight Pacific Island nations as part of FAO program

Advances in tilapia aquaculture to be featured at international symposium

US government sets import tariffs ranging from 7.67% to 112.81%

The European Commission adopted a new set of rules on state aid to the fisheries sector (including aquaculture).

The Canadian Sablefish Association has launched an injunction against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and Sablefin Hatcheries Ltd. to stop the transfer of the world's first farmed sablefish to open water net pens in BC waters.

USDA Statement by Deputy Administrator Dr. John Clifford for the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service