Perch While yellow perch is a favorite fish found in Lake Erie by sport fisherman, Ohio s fish ponds are producing a counterpart pond-raised fish which people find tasty. But when it comes to cooking fresh-water fish, especially walleye and perch, contemporary cookbooks rarely include recipes for these favorites of the Great Lakes. Most local fisherman catch the fish, clean the fish, and take it home to cook it. In 2003, both commercial fishers of yellow perch in Lake Erie and the...

Aperch fishery bumping upward and a skyrocketing chinook salmon fishery are what Lake Michigan will have to offer anglers this summer, according to figures released this week by state fisheries researchers. The total includes king salmon caught by charter boats and those reported in creel surveys of anglers. Lake Michigan anglers spent about 2.8 million hours chasing their favorite piscine quarry last year, down from 3.2 million hours in 2004 and less than half of the 7.3 million in the...

Greece's Nireus acquires 17. Marine Farms has developed verticalised structures in the production of Mediterranean fish farming (sea bass and sea bream) in Spain with annual production capacity of 7,200 tonnes and 15 million pieces of juveniles, as well as salmon in Scotland with a production capacity of 9,500 tones and 7.5 million pieces. Marine Farms has developed verticalised structures in the production of Mediterranean fish farming (sea bass and sea bream) in Spain with annual...

Whereas farmed fish are grown in closed pens or cages until they're ready for market, some Alaska fish -- mostly salmon -- are raised in hatcheries until they grow to fingerlings and are released to the sea. KODIAK -- Don't ever refer to it as farming -- but home-grown fishes are Alaska's largest agricultural crop. At Prince William Sound, fish returning to five hatcheries comprise 73 percent of the annual harvest -- 80 percent pinks, 75 percent chums, 49 percent silver and 38 percent...

A NEW report which claims to expose the poor welfare behind the rapidly growing fish farming industry has been described as misleading by a trade association. No, it's leading to cheating on catches and to discards of good fish. Yes, if concentration of fishing rights in fewer hands is accepted as a social price. Yes, it is keeping stocks healthy and fisheries sustainable. No, it should be replaced by an effort management system, such as days-at-sea (DAS) Search FISHupdate.com Search...

Record numbers of young chinook salmon finning offshore should lead to a summer recreational salmon season that actually has some summer days in it for anglers fishing off the Southern Oregon and Northern California coasts. BROOKINGS After two mid-summers of idleness, Southern Oregon's recreational ocean anglers are poised for the busiest and perhaps the most productive summers on the sea. Collectively, that means the Brookings salmon season of the good-ol' days every summer holiday...

Farmers have used cancer-causing industrial dye Sudan Red to boost the value of their eggs and fed an asthma medication to pigs to produce leaner meat. Worried about losing access to foreign markets and stung by tainted food products scandals at home, China has in recent years tried to improve inspections, with limited success. Just as with manufactured goods, exports of meat, produce, and processed foods from China have soared in recent years, prompting outcries from foreign farm sectors...

The plan, unanimously approved by members of the California Fish and Game Commission, will create a statewide system of connected ocean preserves where fishing and other human activities would be limited or banned. The first phase sets aside the waters along a 200-mile stretch of the coast, including tidal areas that fan out three miles from shore, to protect marine habitat between Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, and Half Moon Bay, about 25 miles south of here. California Adopts...

In particular, warmer oceans, changes in currents, disruption of reproductive cycles and mass migration of species would affect Australia's marine life, particularly in the southeast. Salmon farming businesses would become largely unviable as the ocean warmed the predicted one to two degrees over the next 30 years, Hobday said. It is the first major study in the Australian region to combine the research of climate modellers, ecologists and fisheries and aquaculture scientists. Already,...