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March 1, 2003
Get ready for Feed Expo 03 – exhibitors registered to date:
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February 28, 2003
Using vegetable raw materials in addition to fish meal and fish oil in salmon feed, it is now possible, with the best farming practices, to achieve a wild fish to salmon conversion ratio close to 1:1.
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February 26, 2003
Net sales and income from operations before amortization of goodwill (EBITA) in the Aquaculture business stream were strongly affected by low salmon prices, primarily in the beginning of 2002, and the stabilization of feed volumes.
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February 25, 2003
AFIAEXPO 2003 will be the last biennial "big meeting' for the The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA). There will be a trade show every third year from 2005 instead.
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February 21, 2003
Half of world marine stocks fully exploited - State of World's Fisheries and Aquaculture 2002 published
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February 21, 2003
The Aquaculture Certification Council, Inc (ACC), a new non-governmental body, has been established to certify social, environmental and food safety standards at aquaculture facilities worldwide.
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February 14, 2003
DuPont and Statoil have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to further develop the business involving the world's only methane-based fermentation production facility.
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February 14, 2003
The Alltech Symposium has added aquaculture to its topics for this year’s meeting, to be held May 12-14.
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February 14, 2003
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is taking action to detain U.S.-origin zinc oxide and livestock feed products that are contaminated with dioxin
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February 11, 2003
The European Commission has adopted its proposal for a Regulation on official food and feed controls. The proposed Regulation will streamline and reinforce the existing control system with added bite, consisting of stricter enforcement mechanisms.
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February 10, 2003
The U.S. National Fisheries Institute has expressed support for FAO-developed eco-labeling standards; says variable standards of private-sector certifiers leads to consumer confusion
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February 8, 2003
Troubled Tasmanian company,Tassal Limited, has acquired Nortas to create Australia’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon.
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February 5, 2003
The potential of replacing U.S. tobacco crops with Southern flounder has come a step closer, thanks to new research findings on water temperature manipulation to control sex during the flounder's early development
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February 5, 2003
The U.S. Food and drug Administration (FDA) has announced a proposed regulation that would require domestic U.S. and foreign food facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register with the agency by December 12, 2003.
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February 2, 2003
Following scientific assessments establishing a link between high canthaxanthin intake and eyesight problems, the European Commission has adopted a Directive to reduce the authorized level of canthaxanthin in animal and aquatic feed.
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February 2, 2003
The American Feed Industry Association’s (AFIA) Expo ’03, being held at the Minneapolis Convention Center, May 5-7, 2003 will, for the first time, include an Educational Forum session devoted exclusively to aquaculture.
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January 30, 2003
Microalgae firm, Cyanotech Corporation, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, has announced financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2003, ended December 31, 2002.
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January 21, 2003
SyAqua has officially opened its shrimp research facilities in Berkeley, California as the next step in its shrimp genetic improvement program
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January 19, 2003
Some media stories (and headlines) have mischaracterized the Pew Initiative’s report on transgenic fish (see story below); read the report says the executive director
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January 19, 2003
Regulatory plan for review of transgenic fish raises questions about adequacy of framework to evaluate next generation of agricultural biotechnology