After years of steady growth that has seen the value of Rhode Island shellfish farming increase 15-fold in the past 10 years, 2006 saw the value of aquaculture jump to a record-setting $1. Like most shellfish farmers in the state, who are improving their productivity per acre faster than they are expanding the actual acreage under cultivation, Warfel is concentrating on ways to nurture more baby oysters to maturity. Oyster production increased by 54 percent from the year before, while clam...

US Presses Proposal To Ban Fishing Subsidies At WTO GENEVA (AP)--Fishing subsidies should be banned to make global trade more equitable and prevent overfishing of already depleted high-sea stocks, the United States told World Trade Organization members on Tuesday. US Presses Proposal To Ban Fishing Subsidies At WTO GENEVA (AP)--Fishing subsidies should be banned to make global trade more equitable and prevent overfishing of already depleted high-sea stocks, the United States told World...

That will enable bulk distribution of the water to be used in products ranging from pharmaceuticals and face cream to beer. A former Alaskan crab fishing boat soon will be trolling Hawai'i waters seeking easier prey. Billed as the first mobile deep-sea water harvesting platform, the ship will generate 80,000 gallons of fresh water per day through reverse osmosis desalination, or 2.4 million gallons per month, according to Deep Ocean Hawaii. Deep-sea water harvesting goes mobile - The...

Luckily, many other factors besides the number of fish stocked team up to produce a fair, good or excellent coho fishery during any one particular season. Judging from the number of people who head to the big lake regularly, there are plenty of Hoosiers who partake from Indiana's small slice of Lake Michigan's large pie. COHO SALMON If stocking numbers have anything to do with how good the coho fishing will be in 2007, this should be a bumper crop year. The predictions are based on...

Fishermen as well as the fish-traders are getting panicky and feared that this would hit the very fish production-process. CHITTAGONG, April 28: An organised gang is very active in catching mother fishes with current nets just as they are going to lay eggs in the Halda river, a natural fish breeding ground in the country. Meanwhile, the fish-traders are not at all optimistic that they would be able to procure sufficient quantity of fish eggs during the current season. The fishermen living...

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 Sultan Kudarat offers tilapia for export ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat -- Local officials and business leaders in Sultan Kudarat urged the National Government and exporters to look at the province's tilapia industry amid the country's goal to penetrate the United States with tilapia fillet. Wednesday, May 02, 2007 Sultan Kudarat offers tilapia for export ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat -- Local officials and business leaders in Sultan Kudarat urged the National Government and...

All the warning signs are there: catch-limiting quotas, fishing ground closures, rising fuel costs, dropping fish prices and a public that to them seems all too willing to blame fishermen for the ocean's environmental woes. There's a market for their fish and there are camera-toting tourists coming around every day, so commercial fishermen know people are hungry both for the seafood and for the picturesque sights they provide. Back from a long night of sardine fishing, the boat makes for...

Comment Every portion of fish for sale in Britain will soon be traceable back to the boat which caught it under a scheme supported by the government to end illegal fishing in the developing world. At a ground-breaking meeting at Westminster yesterday government ministers, representatives from the country's largest supermarkets and the food and drink industry agreed on measures to eliminate illegal fishing. One way of stopping this is to have an EU-wide tracking system that protects poor...

Alaska's 2007 salmon season officially gets underway in May and major processors say they can handle the projected salmon runs, with a few possible exceptions. For the past seven years state fishery managers have conducted a preseason survey of salmon processing capacity to determine where shortages might occur. Major processors (those who bought more than 100,000 pounds of salmon during the past two years) are asked to report by April 13 the maximum amount of fish in pounds, or numbers of...