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Bluff oyster season begins but customers will wait another day
2 March, 2020
Stuff.co.nz
The Bluff oyster season has got off to a good start with bins full of
oysters coming in on the boats but most customers will have to wait
another day to ...
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Oysters and clams can be farmed together
3 April, 2020
Phys.Org
They are the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica); Atlantic surfclam (Spisula
solidissima); hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria); and softshell clam (Mya
...
Cottonseed meal proves its worth in vannamei shrimp feeds
3 April, 2020
The Fish Site
Nearly 90 percent of the soybean meal (SBM) used in shrimp diets could
be replaced by the comparatively cheap cottonseed meal (CSM) without ...
India likely to miss seafood export target this year due to coronavirus
turmoil
3 April, 2020
SeafoodSource
Prices of material shrimp fell to INR 360 (USD 4.70, EUR 4.40) per
kilogram for 40 counts as of 15 March, down 6.5 percent from INR 385 (USD
5.00, ...
Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America New Dates
Announced
2 April, 2020
Yahoo Finance
PORTLAND, Maine, April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, Diversified
Communications, organizer of the annual Seafood Expo North America/ ...
Irish aquaculture producers urged to make a strong case for economic
assistance
2 April, 2020
The Fish Site
Irish aquaculture producers have been asked to fill in a form to
strengthen the sector's case for financial aid from the government as
they struggle to ...
Canada shoring up fisheries, aquaculture sectors with aid package,
essential industry declaration
2 April, 2020
SeafoodSource
Canadian Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard
Bernadette Jordan announced aquaculture and seafood processing companies
...
Chinese shrimp exporters abusing “wild-caught” designation, according to
Southern Shrimp Alliance
2 April, 2020
SeafoodSource
The U.S. State Department certifies shrimp imports (under so called
Section 609) as being artisanal and not damaging to wild sea turtle
populations, ...
China Chases Indonesia's Fishing Fleets, Staking Claim to Sea's Riches
2 April, 2020
The New York Times
So not only does the Chinese trawling breach maritime borders, it also
leaves ... these waters, the coast guard ships were protecting Chinese
trawlers.
US seafood industry gets $300 million in coronavirus relief, hopes for
more protections
2 April, 2020
Anchorage Daily News
Two proposals to open a commercial fishery were denied this month by the
Board of Fisheries but Rumble said ADF&G and local harvesters are ...
Prawn farming feels pinch, lakhs affected
2 April, 2020
Telegraph India
Prawn farming feels pinch, lakhs affected. Nearly 500 hatcheries in
Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have had to drain
50 lakh ...
Virus Outbreak Hits Louisiana Shrimp Industry Hard
1 April, 2020
PerishableNews (press release)
During Lent, sales of shrimp can double or even triple, but the closure
of restaurants has frozen sales – literally. Because sales have
plummeted, many ...
Coronavirus update: Wuhan shrimp seller identified as 'patient zero'
1 April, 2020
Business Today
A 57-year-old female shrimp seller in China's Wuhan city, the
originating point of the coronavirus pandemic, has been identified as
one of the first ...
Ocean data portal maps show significant shifts by mid-Atlantic fish
species
1 April, 2020
Phys.Org
... longfin squid, monkfish, northern shortfin squid, red hake, sand
lance, scup, spiny dogfish, spot, summer flounder, winter flounder and
yellowtail.
Argentine jigger fleet begins operating north of parallel 44o. as of
April first
1 April, 2020
MercoPress
The area was opened to squid catches on request from the Argentine
Jiggers Chamber, CAPA, and the Argentine Fisheries Enterprises Council,
...
Coronavirus hits sustainable aquaculture
1 April, 2020
chinadialogue ocean
Coronavirus hits sustainable aquaculture. Tilapia are now mature enough
to process in China, but Covid-19 has delayed orders from major
importing ...
Cargill working proactively to get ahead of tightening regulations in
China
1 April, 2020
SeafoodSource
By far the largest aquaculture producer in the world, China produced
more than 50 million tons of farmed seafood last year, more than
three-quarters ...
COVID-19 hits Louisiana's $2 billion seafood industry hard, leaders urge
public to buy local
1 April, 2020
KLFY
Larger seafood businesses will also be hurt. As demand for seafood goes
down, they'll be stuck with too much inventory. When businesses stop
buying ...
