Terry Sawyer comes from a long line of farmers and ranchers, and he’s learned a lot from his family—about maintaining the health of his broodstock and selecting the strongest performers for breeding; about managing the employees who help run his operation; and about the importance of stewardship and maintaining the health of the environment his farm depends on.
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September 18, 2019
Leah Douglas
Americans eat an average of 16 pounds of fish each year, and that number is growing. But how to meet our demand for fish is a controversial question, one that is entering a new chapter as the Environmental Protection Agency seeks to approve the nation’s only aquaculture pen in federal waters.
Along the shore of northern Java, the most densely populated island in Indonesia, they thought they had it made back in the 1980s, when the craze for turning mangrove swamps into prawn ponds took hold. Prawn prices were high. Village after village took the bait. “We wanted to raise some income and feed our families”, says Maskur, a teacher in Wedung, a large village on the River Wulan.
But now they are living with the consequences. The loss of their protective coastal strip of mangroves triggered an invasion by the sea that has engulfed many of their ponds in the past two decades, and eaten into the rice fields further inland.
“We’ve lost 500 metres to the sea in the last 10 years,” said Maskur, as our boat headed out into a bay unmarked on any maps. We passed the submerged remains of banks that had once surrounded village ponds. “I bought 10 hectares of ponds here in 2004, but three years later they were swept away,” said village official Nor Khamed.
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17 July 2019 / The Fish Site
Offshore finfish farming operations can have “minimal impacts to the surrounding waters”, according to the results of a new study.
The conclusion follows the investigation into the waters from Open Blue’s cobia production site off the coast of Panama, by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
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BOSTON and HALIFAX, Nova Scotia and BERGEN, Norway, March 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Innovasea Systems announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Norway-based Nortek Akvakultur. Nortek Akvakultur has been combined with Innovasea’s Realtime Aquaculture unit to form the Innovasea Instrumentation team.
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July 5, 2018 / Business Wire / — This afternoon SEMARNAT, CONAPESCA and the office of the Governor of Baja California Sur joined forces with Earth Ocean Farms to release 40,000 juvenile totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in the Sea of Cortez with the goal of re-populating this species which is at risk of extinction due to overfishing for its illicit commerce. The totoaba release was undertaken along the shores of Playa Santisapac on Concepcion Bay located in the Municipality of Mulegé.