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Empowering women through backyard ornamental fish farming
Backyard ornamental fish farming Women have been identified as potential employees in the ornamental fisheries sector in several countries (Lee, 2005; Jayashankar 1998 and Bertram 1996). Many women in India, especially in rural areas, have taken up ornamental fish farming or animal …
Solving PHL’s Fish Stock Depletion
Seafood is one of the favorite sources of protein for Filipinos. The Philippine Statistics Authority has declared that fish is the second staple food in the country after rice. On average, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center has estimated that the average per capita consumption of fish and fish products in the …
Start of five-day training course on fish stock assessment and management
Abdulaziz Al Dehaimi (right), director of the fisheries department at the Ministry of the Municipality, during the training course. Doha: The training course “Assessment of fish stocks and fisheries management”, organized by the Ministry of the Municipality represented by the Department of Fisheries, started yesterday with the participation of a number of technicians working in …
You can help protect a species of fish vital to ocean ecosystems
You can help protect a species of fish vital to ocean ecosystems by Celeste Vandeventer |November 19, 2021 Atlantic Menhaden. Photo: Jared Zissu/Defenders of Menhadenused with permission. Omega Protein Corp and Omega Protein, Inc. may not be household names, but many of their products are. These two companies, collectively known as “Omega”, form one of …
Maryland donates invasive fish meat to food bank
Figuring out what to do about invasive northern snakeheads in the mid-Atlantic waterways has long puzzled the state’s wildlife officials. Northern serpent heads, which are endemic to East Asia, breed profusely and then wildly protect their fast-growing fry. Bass anglers casting surface frogs or flipping bait around vegetation often have an eye-opening experience when brown, …
The challenges of fish management are changing – Trade only today
In 2019, the world’s oceans took a dubious step forward. According to two major sources, the National Environmental Information Centers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Beijing Institute for Atmospheric Physics, the world’s oceans are warmer than they have been in 65 years of recording . And, according to nonprofit Climate Central …
26 New Orleans chefs oppose plans to change fish management | Environment
New Orleans restaurateur Dickie Brennan remembers redfish becoming a nationally sought-after dish this way: A German chef, who was also a fisherman, introduced redfish to Brennan’s famous family of restaurateurs at the late 1970s. “Back then, everyone in restaurants just wanted to eat trout or pompano,” Brennan recalls. Creole-flavored rockfish cooked on a flat top …
Fish farming vs. capture: Southeast Asia joins the debate
Called the Global Workshop on Nutrition-Sensitive Fish Agrifood Systems, it took place in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, and was attended by Professor David Little of the Stirling Institute of Aquaculture. Here he describes some of the main topics discussed during the workshop. The meeting brought together an eclectic group of aquaculture developers and researchers, primarily …
“A quality control laboratory is essential to verify fish meat in southern Punjab”
MULTAN: The southern Punjab, a region rich in fish production, does not have a quality control laboratory for hygienic protein analysis as there is no mechanism to monitor the quality and control the sale of fish meat. . Southern Punjab leads the way in fish production, as nearly 40,000 acres of fish farms are located …
Rice-fish culture and its management techniques
RICE-FISH CULTIVATION means growing rice and fish together at the same time on the same piece of land. In rice-fish farming, farmers introduce another crop into the paddy field and that crop is the small fish. It also includes growing fish and rice one after the other or simultaneously growing side by side in different …
Rice-fish farming and its management techniques
RICE-FISH FARMING means growing rice and fish together at the same time on the same land. In rice-fish farming, farmers introduce another crop into the paddy field and that crop is small fish. This also includes growing fish and rice one after the other or growing side by side simultaneously in different compartments using the …