Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Mammals: Interrelationship, Background and Issues
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... Isles of Shoals, where a mooring grid is already in place – and permitted – from UNH’s Atlantic Marine Aquaculture Center. The site is six miles offshore and one mile south of White Island. CORE researchers will equip the 10-kilowatt turbine with extensive instrumentation to measure wind, wave, and temperature effects on the turbine itself, the platform on which it floats, and the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... in Cairo and Alexandria, where they are sold as "the catch of the day".Egypt has built the largest aquaculture industry in Africa, accounting for four out of every fish farmed on the continent. Egyptian fish farms produced over 650,000 tons of finfish last year, or about 60 percent of the country's total freshwater and marine fish production, providing a cheap source of protein for...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
BRANFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientist from a consortium of Norwegian marine and aquaculture institutions announced this week that they have generated the first ever draft sequence and assembly of the Atlantic cod genome. The results, presented at the GenoFisk meeting in Oslo, Norway, include a high-quality genome assembly and preliminary annotation of the fish species, completed...
