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03/12/13: Event - Asian-Pacific Aquaculture (APA13)

Excitement is building here at the Aquaculturists HQ in light of the upcoming Asian-Pacific Aquaculture (APA) trade show which takes place next week!

After the first successful meeting in 2007, Asian-Pacific Aquaculture 2013 will be the next chance for the international aquaculture community to visit Vietnam and see the rapidly expanding aquaculture industry in the country.

Vietnam has seen a 50% increase in aquaculture production in the last 5 years -  a 100% per year increase in tons produced every year for the last 16 years.

What will APA involve?

Attendees will be able to see what is happening  to create this growth in Vietnam as well as aquaculture developments in the rest of Southeast Asia.

The show will also include a special Farmer’s Day, providing the latest in practical knowledge for Vietnam’s aquaculture producers.

The 5th Oyster Symposium, organised by the World Oyster Society will be jointly held with APA.

When/where is the show?

APA will be held at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 10-13 December 2013

Two of the International Aquafeed team - Roger Gilbert and Tuti Tan - will be at the show so do come along and say hello if you get the chance!

For more information about APA, visit the World Aquaculture Society website here.















 

03/12/13: Feed facility planned in New Zealand; largest sturgeon breeding farm; first live fish shipment

A brand new, high-tech aquaculture feed production facility could be operating in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand by 2015. 

Fish feed company Big Nutrition and Blenheim based firm Aquaculture Direct plan to establish an aquatic feed mill in the Marlborough district.
 
Once complete, the mill will be the newest and most advanced aquatic feed plant in the South Pacific, and the only one in New Zealand.  
Full news available here... 

The largest sturgeon breeding farm in the Caspian Sea will be established in the Mazandaran province, Iran.
 
According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Hassan Habibnejad, director general of the province's Fisheries Department said the farm, which is capable of producing 7 tons of caviar and 250 tons of fish per year, will be built in on an area spanning 5 hectares.
Full news available here...

Australian based transport equipment manufacturer FishPac Pty Ltd has managed to perform the first ever fully successful live shipment using the world’s only approved live fish transport system sustained by oxygen.
 
The shipment, which transported 400-900 gram greenlip abalone specimens from Melbourne, Australia to Los Angeles, USA arrived with zero mortality, representing a 30 per cent mortality reduction compared to any other transportation system previously used.
Full news available here...


 

A view of the Caspian Sea (Photo credit: Wikipedia)