FAO report says overfishing putting sea cukes at risk

Sichuan Aquacultural Engineering and Technology Research Center

News:
China to Produce 48.9 Million Tonnes of Aquatics This Year
Insight into the aqua feed business in China
Shangdong province exports less aquatic products

Selected abstracts of research aticles published in Chinese journals

Early indications point to a reduction in global cereal output in 2009 from the 2008 record, according to FAO's latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation report

La afirmación citada con frecuencia que se necesitan cinco o incluso 10 kilos de pescado silvestre para producir un kilo de salmón cultivado es errónea y por lo tanto engañosa y dañina para la eco-eficiencia percibida de la acuicultura y su uso de harina y aceite de pescado. El ratio promedio correcto de Pescado requerido: Pescado obtenido para salmón es 1.7:1, y está disminuyendo

Total catfish feed delivered in the United States during January was 4,709 tons, up 30 percent from January 2008 and nine percent above the previous month

Novel research shows that the naturally occurring level of vitamin K present in fish feed given to Atlantic salmon juveniles is sufficient for good growth and bone health from the start of feeding until smoltification

IFFO, has brought together information about the benefits to man and farmed animals of these healthy omega-3s from fish oil and fishmeal in a short guide, available in both Spanish and English

Workshop organized by FAO and the Univesitat de les Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain includes contributed papers on definitions, principles, scales and management measures, human dimensions, economic implications and legal implications that are relevant for an ecosystem-based management in aquaculture

Good aquaculture no more damaging to biodiversity than other food production systems, BioScience article says

Albert G. J. Tacon and Marc Metian

The important role played by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Codex Alimentarius Commission in the development of international standards, guidelines, and recommendations to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade is discussed

Science article overstated the risks to wild pink salmon from sea lice and salmon farming

TONGWEI AQUANEWS
Issue 5 - December, 2008
Sichuan Aquacultural Engineering and Technology Research Center

This study exemplifies the need for nutrition education and more effective communication about fish, not only to the people facing lifestyle and chronic diseases, but also to the broader public. European consumers are convinced that eating fish is healthy, but particular emphasis should be made on communicating benefits especially from fatty fish consumption. The study has recently been published in BMC Public Health, and constitutes a part of the research in the SEAFOODplus project 2.3 SEA-INFOCOM.

— TONGWEI AQUANEWS
Issue 4 - November, 2008
Sichuan Aquacultural Engineering and Technology Research Center

This data product from USDA's Economic Research Service provides statistics on domestically grown catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish that may be products of aquaculture, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters

Final net pen proposals

This FAO technical paper contains two reviews on environmental/biodiversity and social/economic impacts of capture-based aquaculture as well as eleven species review papers

Keynote speech, Fisheries Management: Status and Challenges, given by Ichiro Nomura, Assistant Director-General, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department at the Fifth World Fisheries Congress on 21 October 2008 at Pacifico Yokahama, Yokohama, Japan.

A recent workshop hosted by the Reprofish and AquaBreeding projects (funded by the European Union) highlighted the efforts in place to enhance aquaculture industry practices and improve the quality of aquatic animals and fish reared in Europe

A broad range of organic acids, their salts or mixtures of those can improve growth, feed utilization and disease resistance in fish