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Editor's Note 
 
One of our featured articles is about a call for reform in shrimp farmers’ working conditions in Asia. The story examines the industry's accountability measures and explores the need for better practices.
- Seyitan Moritiwon, Associate editor
 
THIS WEEK 
 

Volunteers needed to guard lake sturgeon during spawning season

Sturgeon For Tomorrow is seeking volunteers in Cheboygan County to protect mature lake sturgeon from illegal harvest during their spawning season. The Black Lake Chapter of Sturgeon For Tomorrow is working together with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and various tribes to protect the species.


NEOM, Tabuk Fisheries launch aquaculture venture in Saudi Arabia

NEOM, the sustainable regional development in northwestern Saudi Arabia, has partnered with Tabuk Fisheries Company to establish an aquaculture company.


Brazilian Fish and CAT explore genome editing in tilapia aquaculture

Brazilian Fish, a tilapia farmer, is partnering with the Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT) to perform genome editing on specific genetic regions of interest in Nile tilapia. 


 
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Accountability for Asia’s shrimp industry

For those concerned with unsafe labour practices, and the persistence of dangerous conditions in shrimp hatcheries in Asia, 2024 was certainly an eventful year. In September 2024, the Associated Press (with financial support from The Walton Family Foundation, of Walmart fame) published an important (and perhaps unprecedented) report that looked at three large Asian players in the industry: India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. » Read More...
 
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Oyster diseases threaten Atlantic Canada’s industry

Oysters don’t have any kind of adaptive immunity. Unlike vertebrates that have a defence mechanism which can remember and destroy disease-causing substances, if oysters can’t fight off infection and they get re-infected another time, it’s a whole new infection for them. » Read More...
 
 
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Feed for Thought: Feeding the future starts in the hatchery

Aquaculture successfully produced 94.4 million tonnes of aquatic animals in 2022, surpassing capture fisheries by 3.4 tonnes. For the first time, 51 per cent of the aquatic animals obtained were cultured rather than fished for. » Read More

Gut bacteria of salmon are more influenced by diet than age: University of Guelph study

Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout are both cold-water fish in the salmon family and are two of the most farmed fish species in the world with almost four million tonnes produced (live weight), mainly in the Americas and Europe (FAO, 2020). » Read More

 
MORE HEADLINES 
 

Fish nasal microbiota could guide conservation strategies, study shows

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Hatchery International launches new webinar series on applied genetics

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NOAA study detects bitter crab disease earlier using genetics

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New floating nursery system increases bay scallop production in New England

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Novo Holdings completes acquisition of Benchmark Genetics

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Events 
 

42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference

April 29-May 2, 2025
Santa Cruz, California
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International Seaweed Symposium 2025

May 4-9, 2025
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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