Thursday, January 30, 2014

30/01/14: NY high school raises fish; Mexico initiates shark ban; ISA outbreak in Chile

A high school in New York, USA has come up with a novel idea to raise enough fish to feed thousands.

The manmade river in the basement of Food and Finance High School - the location of Cornell University scientist Philson Warner's aquaculture lab - is home to over 10,000 tilapia, swimming against the current just as they would in the wild.
Full news available here.
The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food in (Sagarpa), Mexico recently announced plans to permanently ban the capture of Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in a bid to protect the animals' reproduction in national waters.

The measure - which applies to federal waters of both Mexican coasts - came into force on Tuesday.
Full news available here.

Sernapesca, Chile's national fisheries and aquaculture authority, has confirmed an outbreak of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) at a salmon farm belonging to seafood firm Invermar in the country's Chiloe region.
Invermar has confrimed the outbreak, specifying the ISA virus has been positive within two cages with 108,078 Atlantic salmon.
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Nile tilapiaOreochromis niloticus (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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