November 01, 2007, 14:15 The fishing community has welcomed the R100 million rand pledged by government for six marine aquaculture interventions along the coast. Govt to inject millions into fish farms. It is community people who must benefit - that is the challenge the minister must make -- that it happens. This was announced by Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk at the first national summit on Subsistence and Small-Scale Fisheries being held in Port Elizabeth today....

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California farmers will likely take 82,000 acres out of cultivation next year if the state receives an average amount of rain and snow this winter, according to a study commissioned by Western Growers, which represents the California and Arizona produce industries. Now, drought and water restrictions are exacting a high price on Allbright and other California farmers who must make tough decisions about what to plant or fallow, harvest or plow under, prune or chop down. California farmers...

The United Nations agency dedicated to eliminating rural poverty and hunger has announced that it is stepping up its financial backing to coastal fishing communities in southern India still struggling to rebuild after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004. The United Nations agency dedicated to eliminating rural poverty and hunger has announced that it is stepping up its financial backing to coastal fishing communities in southern India still struggling to rebuild after the Indian...

A new technique for mass-producing sterile fish might one day be used to stop genetically modified fish breeding with each other or with their wild relatives, should they escape from fish farms. At the moment, the method used to produce sterile fish in large numbers is to subject fish eggs to extremely high pressures, which leaves them with three sets of chromosomes instead of two. Triploidy, as it is called, is the method adopted by US company Aquabounty, which wants to sell its...

South Africa has postponed an indefinite ban on commercial abalone fishing, due to start on Thursday and designed to protect stocks of the shellfish. The government has drastically reduced the total allowable abalone catch in the wild and attempted to encourage saltwater farming of the shellfish. Shipped to Asia as a seafood delicacy, abalone has become a prized commodity for South African entrepreneurs as well as criminals who have poached the mollusc close to extinction. The amount of...

The island s commercial scalloping fleet will take to the harbors today, hoping for a rebound in the fishery after two straight years of disappointing scallop harvests. Harbormaster Dave Fronzuto said the Marine Department has issued approximately 145 commercial licenses, and he expects about 50 to 60 boats to participate on opening day. Last year and the year before, with the biomass so low, a majority of commercial fishermen dropped out, so that relieved a lot of the pressure on the...

Gansler also is uncomfortable that only about 10 percent of the state's farms are inspected each year and suggested that a farmer's records should be public record. As a state inspector plowed though Messix's records looking for any violation of pollution laws, the state attorney general and his top environmental assistant were sitting at the table. The legislation was precipitated by toxic outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida in 1997, which resulted in fish kills, the closing of parts of...

The charges of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil spaced 10 feet apart along two miles of earthen dike allowed water to start dribbling into 2,500 acres of the Williamson River Delta. Over the past century, 350,000 acres of marsh in the Upper Klamath Basin was reduced to less than 75,000 by farmers and federal agencies building dikes to create rich farmland. It is part of a series of marshland restoration projects on the northern end of Upper Klamath Lake that will ultimately approach 20,000...