Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
Plans by a US scientists to thwart a pending human cloning ban have sparked an outcry in Washington, where the White House and lawmakers warned of sinister consequences from the latest bio-engineering technique.
Scottish salmon farmers have launched an initiative to reduce the damage caused by sea lice, which infest salmon in the floating cages where they are reared and reduce output. The farmers are being urged to implement a sea louse treatment described as a breakthrough by the Scottish Salmon Growers Association.
The Kerala fisheries department has embarked on an ambitious project to set up a fishery resource management society to curb over-exploitation of fishery resources, states fisheries minister T K Ramakrishnan has said.
Scientific data from federal assessements of Northeast fish populations indicate that fishing restrictions have been necessary to improve the numbers of several depleted fish stocks, says a new report from a National Research Council committee.
Time is starting to run out for the internal combustion engine. No one is saying the pistons and crankshafts that powered automobiles and auto industry for more than a century will disappear right away. But auto makers from Tokyo to Stuggart have reached a surprising consensus on an idea deemed …
Korea and China will hold working level fisheries talks in Seoul on Jan 20-21 to continue work on a bilateral fisheries accord. Their talks, the first this year, will focus on temporary measures to regulate fishing in the waters between the two countries.
Australian scientists have announced that they have developed the world's first gene map for prawns, as the first step towards developing bigger, faster growing Crustaceans. The team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) said the genetic linkage map was the first for any Crustaceans species and would …
A mysterious disease the last several years has almost made Japan's pearl oysters an endangered species. Unless a solution is found soon, Japan's vernerable pearl industry fears it may be on the way out. If the oysters die en masse again this year, "most of us will be forced to …
The South Korean government plans to expand fishing operations in waters near the South Antarctic Ocean and Russia, officials said. Such a move is aimed to cope with the expected decline in catches of fish following the Korea-Japan fisheries agreement Sept. 29, said the officials at the Ministry of Maritime …
An African fish poses a grave threat to varieties of native fish in the famous Jaisamand lake at Udaipur. The fish, Oreochromis Mossambicus, locally known as "Telapiya" was eating up the local species. With the result the native fishes number is depleting rapidly. Besides, this foreign invader can even endanger …
A group of fishermen blocked Songkhla bay with over100 boats yesterday in a protest against a ban recently imposed in Thailand to prevent them from engaging in anchovy fishing in coastal areas of the province. Officials slapped the ban on anchovy fishing boats and those using gillnets in Songkhla waters …
Korean and Japanese officials will hold the fifth round of working-level fisheries talks in Tokyo next Monday, the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry said yesterday. The talks, aimed at replacing the 1965 bilateral fisheries agreement with a new accord, are in a critical stage.
The Bakun hydroelectric dam project will be revived but on a much smaller scale and at reduced costs, the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohammad of Malaysia said yesterday. He said the electricity generated from the dam may only be for Sabah and Sarawak. Dr Mahathir said the Government …
A Thai biologist has discovered a new species of freshwater shrimp and named it after the country's most popular princess, Thia newspapers have said. "The Sirindhorn fairy shrimp" is reported as having a red tail and 22 legs, with an average body length of between 1.5 and 1.8 centimetres. Mr. …
The Indian seafood industry, which was hit hard by a variety of adverse factors including the European han, has overcome its 'worst-ever crisis', registering a 12.41 per cent growth in foreign exchange relisationin 1997-98 over the previous year.
Angry fishermen stopped short of blockading a key shipping passage, as they had threatened, but warned that protests could encalate if a top Canadian official did not meet with them.
Anortheastern biologist has discovered a new species of freshwater crustacean which is expected to have commercial potential. Streptocephalus sirindhornae or sirindhorn fairy shrimp was found by Khon Kaen University lecturer La-orsri Sanohmuang in several northeastern provinces of Thailand and has been identified as a new species.
Maori Affairs Minister Tau Henare can sack Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries commissioners, but the commission will have little room to do things differently, says its chairman Sir Tipene O'Regan. The commission this week announced its plans for allocating more than $500 million worth of fishing quota, cash, and shares to …
Behind the celebration of the historic Seoul-Tokyo fisheries accord yesterday, Korean fishermen will likely enter into an unprecedentedly hard period due to narrower fishing ground, industry sources said. Domestic fishermen will suffer from severe decline in their fish catch as they will be prohibited in part from operating at major …
Thailand will send the Chulabhorn research vessel to survey marine resources in Burmese waters under the two countries' agreement to cooperate on fishing matters. If the survey shows potential, a joint fishing venture is possible to be carried out in the future, said Agriculture Minister Pongpol Adireksarn. Mr Pongpol yesterday …
