Tuesday 20 March 2012
Fish Fight on, says Daviesfishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012Hopes of securing radical reforms to the EU's Common Fisheries Policy rose yesterday after an expected bid by French and Spanish ministers to block a ban on discards failed to materialise.
Fisheries | Governance | Policy NIFES to study salmon feeding during life-cyclefishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012For the next five years, the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) will be collaborating with 21 partners from 12 European countries in ARRAINA, a European Union integrated project that aims to solve some of the greatest challenges that aquaculture will have to deal with in the future: how can to develop a fish feed with high nutritional value, based on raw materials derived from plants, that will guarantee farmed fish a good standard of health?
Aquaculture | Fish Farming | Research Mexico Designates Four Ramsar Sitesbiodiversity-l.iisd.org | 20 Mar 2012The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has announced that the Government of Mexico has designated four additional Wetlands of International Importance, including three coastal lagoons with eight islands.
Pacific Ocean | Biodiversity | Conservation Campaigners for ban on EU fish discards declare breakthroughGuardian Unlimited | 20 Mar 2012Campaigners fighting to end the practice of throwing healthy fish back into the sea in European waters have declared victory in a key battle. A proposed ban on the practice, which sees millions of tonnes of edible fish discarded each year, is now still on track to become law later this year, despite a concerted attempt by several European Union member states to derail the proposal at an EU fisheries meeting in Brussels on Monday afternoon.
Fisheries | Governance | Policy Oceanographic optimisation fuels efficiencyWorld Fishing | 20 Mar 2012Applied oceanography specialists Tidetech will be demonstrating significant fuel saving results on a recent route optimisation trial at the Green Ship Technology (GST) conference in Copenhagen next week.
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