Welcome back. Hope you all had a great weekend. We've been busy putting the final touches to our 2013 (!) editorial line-up. I can't tell you anything just yet but we've got some great new ideas in the pipeline and look forward to sharing them with you soon.
As it's Monday morning, I thought I'd start the week with a positive-themed blog post:
- We haven't featured a story on norway for gaes so I was really pleased to find this news on fish monitoring by NIFES. Working on behalf of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority, the organisation conducted an investigation into the content of legal and illegal medical residues, heavy metals and other environmental contaminants in farmed fish. The good news is that only low levels of such substances were found. Good news or consumers, great news for Norwegian fish farms. The study is part of an annual programme of monitoring which has been in place since 1988. Read more...
- Over to the Philippines now, where the Philippine Information Agency reports that aquaculture continues to grow in Northern Mindanao. Aquaculture, which makes up 40 percent of the region's total fishery production, grew by 7.4 percent, from 15,886.80 metric tons in last year’s second quarter to 17,059.01 metric tons in the same period this year. Read more...
- Intervet Norbio Singapore Pte. Ltd. takes a new name and adopts a sharper focus on product development. The R&D laboratory will now be known as MSD Animal Health Innovation Pte. Ltd. to reflect the laboratory’s parent company, Merck Animal Health. It is the only facility in the Asia-Pacific region which focuses on warm water aquaculture. Merck Animal Health (MSD Animal Health outside the United States and Canada) bought the laboratory in 2009. Read more...
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| English: Fish farm and floating building at Norwegian Sea Farming Center Norsk (bokmål)‬: Oppdrettsanlegg og den flytende bygningen på Norsk Havbrukssenter i Toftsundet, Brønnøysund (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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