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Mowi communications director Ian Roberts calls the Changing Markets Foundation report is “just click bait.” Salmon farmers, and farmers in general, are fully aware that challenges to the business have costs and that these challenges must be continually addressed. Adding up several years of data for shock value and click bait doesn’t change this awareness.
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After seven years as executive director of the Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association, Mark Lane is moving over to the Northpine Foundation, a philanthropic organization that aims to invest in Canada’s underserved communities so they could thrive.
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When the idea of oyster farming in Texas first come up five years ago, it was met with cheers and enthusiasm, but today the celebratory balloon is deflating as only two oyster farming permits have so far been issued and one of the two is even a conditional one.
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The second volume of Medaka: Biology, Management, and Experimental Protocols, together with the first volume, helps to familiarize scientists with the advantages of using medaka in experimental designs, to facilitate research using medaka, and to stimulate progress by adopting medaka as a model animal. The second edition expands on the first by providing additional information and current protocols that have been recently developed, or modified, to successfully raise medaka fish under stable culture conditions in the laboratory.
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The USDA apparently agrees there’s potential in those tanks at Waldoboro Business Park in Maine. The agency has supported exploration of this new frontier in agribusiness with two Small Business Innovation Research grants totaling $750,000. The Maine Technology Institute was also an early backer.
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Frustrated and angry, mayors of five BC coastal towns say decision is a defeat for science, food security and job creation in rural areas. Mayor Gabriele Wickstrom estimates that roughly 80 percent of Port McNeill’s population depends on British Columbia’s $1.6-billion salmon aquaculture industry.
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Public listing of RAS salmon operations in order to raise capital has opened them to scrutiny. Seafood industry veteran Brad Hicks looks at the books and finds an expectations/reality gap. Salmon RAS problems result in both a higher cost of production and a lower selling price, dramatically affecting profitability and cash flow.
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Activists overlook the role of commercial harvesting in decimating wild fish populations and the role of aquaculture in restoring them, says Dr. Kenneth Cain, fish health professor at University of Idaho. For the most part, scientific studies do not support the claims made by the anti-salmon farming groups.
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