Wednesday, July 24, 2013

24/07/13: International Sturgeon Symposium; milkfish aquaculture in Kiribati; Alaskan salmon standoff; aquaculture in Fiji

Not all caviar is created equal. That's one of the messages from the  7th International Symposium on Sturgeon held in Canada this week. 

Mislabeling and confusing product names means that snail and lobster egg, herring and even seaweed have all been masquerading as caviar.

The Vancouver Aquarium has been blogging about the show and has posted a range of articles.

A Taiwanese technical mission is helping with milkfish aquaculture in Kiribati. 

The South Pacific nation will become the fourth country to raise the species, following Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Alaskan fishermen and miners are at loggerheads over plans to expand a gold mine in the state. The fishermen are concerned that the mine risks poisoning the waters where Pacific salmon spawn.

If the numbers of salmon reaching the spawning grounds goes down, fishing permits are suspended.

What are the implications for aquaculture?

How much is aquaculture in Fiji worth?

Fiji's aquaculture is already worth several millions of dollars and its biggest contributors are pearl, freshwater prawn, tilapia fish, and seaweed.



Pearl nl: Parels de: Perlen
Pearl nl: Parels de: Perlen (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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