03/06/2013: Youth farming and aquaculture initiatives; duties on frozen warmwater shrimp; Alaskan trout use flexible guts

The national dish of Senegal is ceeb bu gen, literally translated as “rice and fish.” Fish accounts for about 60 percent of Senegalese’s protein intake, with artisanal fishing around the major port cities of Dakar and St. Louis accounting for the bulk of consumption.

Currently a feasibility study is being conducted by the Centre de Recherche Ouest-Africain in conjunction with the national university, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, to explore optimal locations for fish farming hubs.
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The US Commerce Department has announced its preliminary affirmative determination in the duty investigation against imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from five Asian countries, signaling that it may pose punitive duties on the products.

Punitive duties would be imposed after both the Commerce Department and the US International Trade Commission (USITC) make affirmative final rulings. The US Commerce is scheduled to make its final determination on August 12 2013. And then the USITC will make its final injury determination on September 26 2013.

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Imagine having a day long feast every day for a month, then, only pauper’s rations the rest of the year.

University of Washington researchers have discovered Dolly Varden, a kind of trout, eating just that way in Alaska’s Chignik Lake watershed.

Organs such as the stomach and intestines in the Dolly Varden doubled to quadrupled in size when eggs from spawning sockeye salmon became available each August, the researchers found.
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English: Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma malma, adult female. From : In: "The Fishes of Alaska." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, 1906. P. 360, Plate XL. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)