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for an hour 0830 pm- 0930 pm

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Malaysia Targets Double in Fish Production

MALAYSIA - The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry has set the target of increasing the national fish production from the current 270,000 tonnes to 507,000 tonnes by 2010.

Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said the country would have to increase its annual aquaculture production to offset the depleting marine fish resources, reports NstOnline.

Malaysia is overly dependent on marine fish, which contribute 86 per cent to the national fish output.

The ministry hopes that the aquaculture industry's contribution can be raised to 25 per cent.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Fishing: The Deadliest Occupation in the World?

GLOBE - Some 24,000 fishermen die at sea each year, making fishing probably the most dangerous occupation in the world, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report released on Monday.

The figure is "unacceptable," said the FAO in its annual report on the State of Fisheries and Aquaculture calling on nations to adopt its 1995 Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.

The Code provides a necessary framework to ensure sustainable fishing and if implemented could help save lives, it said.

"Human behavior or error is estimated to be responsible for 80 per cent of accidents in the fishing industry," said the report. "Safety at sea is a serious problem in both developing and developed countries."

"The main cause of accidents and loss of life in the fishing industry is not only poorly designed, constructed or equipped vessels, but inappropriate human behavior, sometimes compounded by error, negligence or ignorance," the report said.

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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

New Catfish Species Found

SUMATRA - A new species of catfish has been discovered in Sumatra.

According to the scientific journal Zootaxa the Parakysis hystriculus was discovered in the Lalang River drainage in southern Sumatra.

Zootaxa says it can be distinguished from others in the species in having a combination of branched pelvic-fin rays with anterior branch always shorter than posterior branch, lateral edges of head evenly sloping in dorsal view, anteriormost pair of accessory inner mandibular barbels longer than distance separating bases of left and right barbel, outer mandibular barbel with one accessory barbel, mandibular laterosensory pore between bases of inner and outer mandibular barbels present, margin of lower lip with medial concavity, anal fin rounded, caudal fin with narrow lobes having evenly-tapering posteromedial margins and 10 branched rays without secondary branches.

The species inhabits peat swamp waters.

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Aquaculture: Keeping Tuna on the Menu

JAPAN - In December 2007, the Fisheries Laboratory fish farm of Kinki University in Wakayama Prefecture became the first facility in the world to "close the cycle" by breeding Pacific bluefin tuna (hon-maguro) from completely cultured sources.

That is, a third generation of fish was bred from two generations of tuna that had never lived in the wild - the first generation having provided the eggs for the second while captive in the net cages, where they had hatched from eggs harvested in the wild, writes Hillel Wright for Japan Times.

Meanwhile, Hagen Stehr, chairman of the Australian mariculture company Clean Seas Tuna, claims that Clean Seas is "85 per cent there" in its quest to close the cycle for Southern bluefin tuna (minami-maguro). And although leading American tuna companies predict that by 2018 all commercial bluefin will be produced on fish farms, Stehr believes this will happen by 2010 or 2011, says the Japan Times report.

However, Peter Makoto Miyake, a consultant with the Japan-Tuna Fisheries Co-operative, disputes these predictions in crucial respects.

"What the farms are producing at the moment is not bluefin tuna as we know it," he told the news organisation. "It's a different animal...the taste is different and so is the appearance."

Miyake instead advocates the strict enforcement of quotas for capture fisheries and the introduction of a worldwide buy-back program for fishing boats. He argues this would compensate fishermen for leaving the industry and reduce the size of the global tuna fleet — an approach that has been successful in significantly cutting the number of large long-liners worldwide.

Monday, January 26, 2009

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