According to accounts from local experts, the gulf shrimp season this year has been better than expected average and the bay shrimp season is leaving shrimpers in dire straights. There is both good news and bad news for Matagorda County shrimpers, depending on whether or not they are a gulf or bay shrimper. Bay City Tribune Advanced . Browse . Help Register . Sign In . Subscribe. Generally speaking, (gulf shrimpers) are catching about five boxes (100-pounds) of fish per day, said O...

Aquaculture, or fish farming, on an island in the Bay of Fundy involves raising fish commercially for food. Organic farming, which uses biological supplements of fertilizer and insecticide, has become important to the agricultural economy of a large island country northwest of Haiti. Traditional farming implements such as the horse-drawn plow are still used on small farms in the state of Puebla in which country? Dairy farming is part of the agricultural economy of Kaliningrad, an exclave...

Sha Chih-yi, deputy director of the Fisheries Agency under the Council of Agriculture, said food safety officials had conducted a random check of hypermarket chain stores in northern Taiwan recently and discovered that some trout sold in a Far Eastern Geant store in Taoyuan County were contaminated with antibiotic drugs nitrofuran and nalectin -- two cancer-causing banned substances. Sha Chih-yi, deputy director of the Fisheries Agency under the Council of Agriculture, said food safety...

Four agricultural preservation restrictions on 276 acres (230 acres not being farmed) It's a different story on Cape Cod, where land is being purchased for housing, golf courses, and commercial developments, according to farmers and their advocates. On the Vineyard, attitudes toward farmers and land preservation for farming appear to be different. In aquaculture, farmers cultivate marine or freshwater food fish or shellfish, such as oysters, under controlled conditions. One Cape farmer...

And the fish houses, where shrimpers dock their boats and sell their wares, are slowly disappearing as owners cash in on their coveted waterfront property. We maybe got 30 pounds of shrimp, says Smiths wife and business partner, Wanda, as the shrimp topple out of the orange basket and into Everetts hanging scale. Smith is headed for the Atlantic Ocean after what shrimpers call the daylight squirt that sliver of time when the sun takes its first peek over the horizon and the shrimp scamper,...

According to the industry, farm-raised sushi is cost effective. So no clear winner among the folks we talked to but overall Professor Lee says the contest was a draw and he believes his process will help change fish farming for the better. He's pioneered a process to feed his fish an all natural diet whereas most farmed raised eat a manufactured pellet blamed for pollution. And, developers tell us the new system doesn't change the most important part of the fish, the taste. Mimi doesn't...

Find www.app.com stories from the past week as well as calendar events, classifieds, advertisements, Yellow Page listings, local Web sites and more all in one search. Commercial swordfish fishermen do not share the excitement that canyon anglers do about the nearly rebuilt swordfish fishery. Highly migratory species angling category permit holders were still limited to one swordfish per person, but the vessel limit was increased to four fish. negotiators in 2006 allowed 2,690 metric tons...

In an effort to get lost and damaged commercial crab pots out of the ocean, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to legally retrieve commercial Dungeness crab gear from the ocean in September and October. In an effort to get lost and damaged commercial crab pots out of the ocean, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to legally retrieve commercial...

More than a dozen small oyster-growing enterprises in the Homer area plan to have their own processing facility up and running on the Homer Split by summer 2008. Since the shellfish growers began their commercial enterprises about a dozen years ago, they've sold every oyster them could harvest, Bader said. Statewide revenues from some 50 shellfish farms in Alaska are less than $600,000, but given the vast coastlines of Alaska, the potential for increased revenues from shellfish farming is...