Two environmental groups have begun legal actions against 50 salmon farms, grocery chains and fish processors worldwide under California's anti- toxics law, claiming that the businesses are failing to warn consumers of dangerous PCBs in farmed salmon

The Australian Ministry of Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation is to conduct a one-year study to examine ways of making better sustainable use of fisheries by-products

Chilean salmon industry to increase between 10% and 15% in 2004.

Prices are high and availability low and worsening, says trader

AFIA's Board of Directors have approved a far-reaching proposal involving several recommended changes to the Food and Drug Administration's BSE feed rule.

A bombshell study in the journal Science has led to an outporing of protest from fish farming organizations around the world

Latest developments in the U.S. BSE case

An avalanche in Idaho claimed the lives yesterday of Marsha Landolt, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost at the University of Washington, U.S.A., and her husband, Robert Busch, who worked for a division of ALPharma Inc and was an aquafeeds researcher.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance is to step up its support of the aquaculture industry's defense against the proposed U.S. shrimpers call for 'anti-dumping tariffs' that could increase the cost of shrimp over 260%.

Mekong delta must upgrade facilities for high quality products, Vietnam's Minister of Fisheries, Ta Quang Ngoc says

Latest news on the U.S. BSE outbreak

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has diagnosed a presumptive positive case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in an adult Holstein cow in the state of Washington.

FDA has released a draft advisory containing revised recommendations regarding fish and shellfish consumption for people at risk from exposure to the high methylmercury levels

AquaVision 2004, the unique global business conference for modern aquaculture, will focus on the steps necessary to make the Blue Revolution sustainable by achieving the transformation from production driven to consumer led.

New Ohio Sea Grant research is investigating how genetically altered algae can be used in the fight against IHNV

Hawai‘i to benefit from future economic development

Global Shrimp Outlook: 2003 convened the world's top shrimp buyers, producers, and suppliers to consider the status and future of shrimp aquaculture.

Tucked away in the industrial park of a small Belgian village, a cutting edge
aquafeed facility quietly came on-line in mid-September and is set to
revolutionize the larval feed sector.

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New Zealand Minister of Fisheries, Pete Hodgson, has confirmed that the current moratorium on processing new marine farm resource consent applications is to be extended.