The West Virginia Aquaculture Forum will be held on March 3, 2012, in tandem with the Small Farm Conference. Information about the event is at: http://aquaculture.ext.wvu.edu/events/
Feb 142012
The WMAO Divisions of Ohio Dam Safety Organization and Ohio Lake Management Society presents their March 16, 2012 Conference – Successful Management Techniques for Lake Water Quality and Dam Safety.
March 16, 2012 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Kings Island Resort and Conference Center, 5691 Kings Island Drive, Mason, Ohio.
Click here for more information.
As most of you are aware, there are some big issues surrounding the development of an aquaculture industry in the US. Dave Conley, Founding Partner of The Aquaculture Communications Group, LLC of Novi, Michigan, does a great job of outlining the issues in the articles listed below. It’s going to take a targeted and united approach to continue to expand aquaculture in the US, so be prepared to educate yourselves so that we can educate others as to the importance of the industry.
Dave is also the Executive Director for Aquaculture without Frontiers (AwF).
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have used Google Earth’s satellite images to estimate the amount of fish being farmed in the Mediterranean Sea.
Published in the online journal PLoS ONE, this study is the first to approximate seafood production using satellite imagery. It focused on information from 2006.
“Our colleagues have repeatedly shown that accurate reporting of wild-caught fish has been a problem, and we wondered whether there might be similar issues for fish farming”, said lead author Pablo Trujillo, an Oceans Science Advisor forGreenpeace International, who conducted the study while a research assistant at the UBC Fisheries Centre. Read more …
