The city of South Portland, Maine is actively assessing the best approach to upgrade the Portland Street Pier, with aquaculture as a main driver. … More Pier Redevelopment Project Considers Aquaculture Potential
Plans are underway to establish the United States’ first open ocean finfish farm in federal waters. … More Will U.S. Get Its First Fish Farm in Federal Waters This Year?
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council released some impressive achievements for 2017 in their December newsletter. … More ASC’s Stellar 2017 Shows Growth of Industry
One of the greatest barriers to aquaculture’s expansion is the threat of disease and pests, which can quickly spread amid any group of living creatures, particularly in aquatic environments. … More Trout & Salmon Farmers Unite To Test New Sea Lice Treatment
The value of Virginia’s oyster farms has indeed exceeded the public fishery, and Maryland appears to be following in the same path. … More Chesapeake Bay Oyster Farming Rivals Wild Fishery
The United States’ National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has granted millions of dollars to a variety of aquaculture projects across the country to boost research and production of the sector. … More NOAA Awards Millions in Aquaculture Grants
The Tasmanian Seafood Industry Council released the Tasmanian Sustainable Agri-Food Score Card 2015-16 last month. … More Tasmania’s Seafood Production Nears $1 Billion in Value
An event later this month in Morehead City, NC intends to turn the spotlight on some of the state’s aquaculture operations. … More Event to Highlight Shellfish Aquaculture in North Carolina
On the far north coast of Australia’s Northern Territory, on the border with Western Australia, lays an expanse of clay flats that doesn’t look like much at the moment. Yet this is the location of Project Sea Dragon, a $2 billion prawn farm dream from Seafarms Group. … More World’s Largest Tiger Prawn Farm Taking Shape
As demand for seafood and pressure on the ocean grows with the increasing human population, alternative sources of food are also expanding. We’ve discussed how farming seafood, also known as aquaculture, is one such growing sector that will likely soon produce more than wild caught fisheries. But not all of the ocean’s bounty is categorized as fish or shellfish… … More The Promising Potential of Farming Seaweed
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