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The U.S Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, and the National Organic Program, is hosting a public listening session regarding upcoming standards development activities, including feedback about the National Organic Standards Board.
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An award-winning technology made in Campbell River, British Columbia has helped a salmon farmer reduce its carbon emissions by 76 metric tonnes – that’s the amount of greenhouse gases you would have produced had you driven a diesel car for 456,000 km (283,000 miles).
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While lobster farming is creating a mono-cultural economy in coastal Maine, Briana Warner and Atlantic Sea Farms offers opportunities for lobster farmers to expand their off-season business into growing sustainable kelp.
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Canada’s Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), on March 11, re-affirmed her commitment to move open net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia to closed containment farming systems. “I want to work with the aquaculture industry itself to find a way forward to a sustainable place where British Columbia is a magnet for capital,” says minister.
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This book is the latest and most thorough text on the biology, ecology, and fisheries (sport and commercial) of tarpons. The chapters comprise clear, intricate discourses on such subjects as early development and metamorphosis, population genetics, anatomical and physiological features and adaptations, migrations, reproductive biology, and culminate with a concise overview of the world’s tarpon fisheries. A comprehensive appendix includes Spotte’s original translations of important papers published previously by others in Spanish and Portuguese and unavailable until now to English readers.
Tarpons: Biology, Ecology, Fisheries will be of considerable interest and use to fishery and research biologists, marine conservationists, aquaculturists, and informed anglers.
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The Canadian Aquaculture Suppliers Association is a new non-profit organization with a mission to encourage growth in Canada’s aquaculture sector. Ben James, project manager at Merinov applied research centre, is the new president of the non-profit.
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The report, conducted by RIAS Inc. on behalf of the association, has estimated that 4,700 jobs and CA$1.2 billion in economic activity, and $427 million in GDP are at risk if 79 salmon farming licenses are not reissued by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) by June.
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