India’s Cyclone Phailin, which led to massive evacuations in the east of the country, has done limited damage to shrimp farms in the region. Undercurrent News reports that 200 acres of farms have been destroyed, in a blow for India’s billion-dollar shrimp industry.
Read more … Norway’s Marine Harvest is expanding its reach into South Korea with a new filleting and packaging plant opened last week in Incheon. The factory, which deals exclusively with salmon, follows recent developments in Korean-Norwegian trade which saw fresh salmon imports overtake frozen for the first time.
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A major British oyster spot has banned harvesting of the mollusc for this season after a
‘population collapse’. Marine biologists are currently uncertain about what’s caused the
drop in numbers in the Solent, a stretch of water on the south coast of England between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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| Cyclone Phailin, pictured over the east of India (Photo credit: sjrankin) |
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