- Plans are afoot to develop a $300 million aquaculture industry in Northland, New Zealand. The strategy, which will be launched in Bream Bay on Friday, has five working groups – Finfish, Oyster, Greenshell Mussel, Freshwater and Paua. The Northland Aquaculture Development Group’s newly-elected chairman, Whangarei-based Ngati Whatua CEO Allan Pivac, says the Government has already set a goal for New Zealand to have a $1 billion aquaculture industry by 2025. “Northland’s contribution to this national target is $300m – and at least an extra 700 jobs - by 2030. The NADG is the overarching group which supports the aquaculture sector’s growth and has various working groups set up to deliver this goal,” he says. Read more...
- Canada has the third largest amount of arable land per capita in the world and an opportunity became the world's premier food supplier of aquaculture and agriculture; but this does not seem to be happening. Productively in Canada lags despite increasing demand. Oddly, capital investment in Canadian food production is actually in decline. Find out why and watch Dr. Brian Lee Crowley's keynote presentation at Aquaculture Canada 2012.
- Researchers at the Tarbiat Modares University, Iran have studied the possibility of using waste fish oil as biodiesel. The study presents a brief introduction to the resource, status and prospect of waste fish oil as a sustainable energy source for biodiesel production in Iran. Experiments showed that 53 percent of fish wastes was in liquid phase (mixture of water, oil and suspended solids) and the extracted oil was about 11 percent of the total weight of the fish wastes (using of 7 kg of wastes, about 3.71 kg liquid was extracted and 0.8 l (768 g) oil was isolated). Biodiesel fuel was then produced from the extracted fish oil after the chemical reaction (transesterification, reaction between methanol, potassium hydroxide and oil from fish waste). More information...
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