Monday, October 21, 2013

21/10/13: Liberia's fish co-operative, Hyundai design theatre, fish round-ups

Liberians with HIV have set up a fish farm with the help of poverty charity Shalom, reports AllAfrica. The fish grown by the co-operative (the first of its kind) provide subsistence farmers with a clean source of protein, more crucial than usual for people with HIV, and also give them something to trade with the local community.Read more …

Car manufacturer Hyundai has hooked up its hydrogen-powered ix35 FCEV to an aquaponics system for a one-day display at the Design Museum in London, UK. In what the Korean car maker rather grandly calls ‘design theatre’, water vapour from the car’s fuel cell is condensed and filters into the fish tank, and fish waste is recycled as fertilizer for vegetables.
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Authorities in Newfoundland, Canada were forced to issue special licences for salmon-catchers after some 20,000 of the fish escaped from a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm. Around one in ten were corralled by the fish cowboys and returned to the facility; the rest, presumably, were not so lucky. 
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English: Map of Liberia Español: Mapa de Liberia
Despite resource wealth and a relatively favourable climate, Liberia is one of the world's poorest countries (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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