Fish farming can feed most of world – report

AQUACULTURE has the potential to feed almost two thirds of the world’s population, according to a new report from the United Nations. The report, from the UN Marine Panel, says it is possible to produce at least six times more seafood than we are getting today. Because of pressure on global wild fish stocks, most…

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Market knowledge a ‘must have’ for farmers

KNOWLEDGE of the market is a must have for anyone who wants to run an aquaculture business, said German fisheries consultant Alexander Wever, who delivered the plenary talk on the second day of Aquaculture Europe 19 in Berlin yesterday. Wever, who has been in the seafood business for 25 years, spelt out the importance of…

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Scots scientists drive seaweed safeguards

OBAN based researchers are advising world leaders on how to safeguard the global seaweed industry, which is now worth about $5 billion annually. The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) recently delivered a presentation to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), highlighting biosecurity issues in the fast growing sector. The FAO now intends to…

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Huge untapped potential in aquaculture

SUSTAINABLE aquaculture will have to ‘step up’ to close the food security gap, said the EU’s fisheries commissioner, Karmenu Vella, in a message to the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) conference in Montpellier last night. ‘These are exciting times for the aquaculture community. The world’s population is growing; we know we need high quality proteins to…

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We need to farm more fish says EU chief

EUROPEAN Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella has expressed his determination to support and develop aquaculture within the EU. In a prepared, but unannounced, statement he said that fish farming within Europe was starting to emerge from stagnation and it was now time to help it expand. ‘Forty years ago, the famous French commandant Jacques-Yves Cousteau stated: ‘We must plant the sea…

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Ban Ki-moon keynote speaker for AquaVision

THE former secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, will be keynote speaker at AquaVision 2018, to be held in Stavanger in June, it was announced today. He will address the food security challenges of the coming decades. The theme for the biennial conference is ‘Meeting tomorrow today’ and the two-day programme will focus on…

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