The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) recently announced that Laura Rose Day, director, Penobscot Partners, USA is the winner of the the 2013 Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award. Lee Wulff was a US angler, author, and filmmaker who dedicated 60
years of his life to conserving wild Atlantic salmon.
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Day has provided outstanding leadership and management of the Penobscot River Restoration Project, the largest river sea-run fisheries
restoration project ever undertaken in the eastern United States.
The award, was presented by Christopher H. Buckley Jr., chairman of ASF’s US board of directors at a meeting in New York City, USA last week.
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In a collaborative pilot venture, a Brown trout (Salmo trutta) farm is being set up in the Falkland Islands, an archipelago located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Fusion Marine and Kames Fish Farming, both based in Scotland, UK have worked on this pilot brown trout venture with the aim of assessing the breeding and fattening potential this species has when farmed in sea pens in waters near the archipelago.
“We have forged a very close working relationship with Kames and there is over 60 years of combined experience in the aquaculture industry between the two companies. By utilising this expertise and drawing upon our particular strengths, we have over the years successfully completed a number of fish farm installations often for pilot projects similar to this one in the Falklands,” said Stephen Divers, managing director of Fusion Marine.
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In a shift from his current role, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has announced that its executive director, Wally Stevens, will soon be leading the organisations' Responsible Aquaculture Foundation (RAF).
“We have forged a very close working relationship with Kames and there is over 60 years of combined experience in the aquaculture industry between the two companies. By utilising this expertise and drawing upon our particular strengths, we have over the years successfully completed a number of fish farm installations often for pilot projects similar to this one in the Falklands,” said Stephen Divers, managing director of Fusion Marine.
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In a shift from his current role, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has announced that its executive director, Wally Stevens, will soon be leading the organisations' Responsible Aquaculture Foundation (RAF).
The RAF is a charitable organisation established by GAA under Stevens' leadership, which offers education and training in support of responsible aquaculture.
According to the GAA, under Stevens’ leadership, the alliance has experienced unprecedented growth over the past seven years, evolving into the world’s leading standards-setting organisation for aquaculture, through the development of its Best Aquaculture Practices certification system.
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| Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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