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Australis expects 60 percent sales increase

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January 04, 2008 - SFB Staff — Australis Aquaculture announced yesterday that it expects its 2007 fourth-quarter barramundi sales to increase by 60 percent. ...
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GAA extends comment period for BAP standards

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January 04, 2008 - SFB Staff — The Global Aquaculture Alliance has extended to Feb. 29 the public comment period for its revised Best Aquaculture Practices standards development process....
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Commentary: New leader, same vision

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January 02, 2008 - By Steven Hedlund — Marine Harvest today named Åse Aulie Michelet the company’s CEO, effective March 1. She takes the helm of the world’s largest salmon-farming company at a challenging time: Outbreaks of infectious salmon anemia in Chile and non-governmental organization-administered anti-farmed salmon initiatives threaten to inhibit the industry’s growth worldwide. ...
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La. oysters may contain norovirus

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January 02, 2008 - SFB Staff — The U.S. Food and Drug administration is warning consumers not to eat raw oysters harvested from West Karako Bay, a section of Growing Area 3 in Louisiana. ...
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HQ Sustainable earns ACC certification

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January 02, 2008 - SFB Staff — HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries (HQS) of Seattle on Dec. 21 announced that its China-based tilapia and shrimp-processing operations were certified by the Aquaculture Certification Council of Kirkland, Wash. ...
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Cell Aquaculture shelves Las Vegas project

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January 02, 2008 - SFB Staff — Cell Aquaculture has canceled its plans to establish a barramundi farm in Las Vegas, less than three months after closing its operations in Mississippi for the relocation. ...
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China ramps up seafood-safety efforts

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January 02, 2008 - SFB Staff — China’s Ministry of Agriculture announced late last week that it’s introducing dozens of food-safety standards designed to improve the quality of the country’s seafood, including preventing the use of illegal veterinary drugs in farmed seafood. ...
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Vietnamese pangasius exporters avoid review

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January 02, 2008 - SFB Staff — Twenty-seven Vietnamese pangasius exporters will be excluded from the list of companies subject to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s fourth annual administrative review of antidumping tariffs. ...
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Commentary: The year of China

December 21, 2007 - On June 28, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shook up the seafood industry by announcing it would detain farmed-seafood imports from China, by far the top international seafood supplier to the U.S. market. FDA inspectors “repeatedly” detected banned antibiotics in five species, most notably shrimp and catfish. The import alert and the food-safety crisis that followed was undoubtedly the biggest story of 2007, but there are others worthy of mention. ...
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Marine Harvest to buy licenses in Chile’s Region XII

December 21, 2007 - SFB Staff — Marine Harvest announced yesterday that it may be forced to move some of its salmon farms in Chile to another region due to an outbreak of infectious salmon anemia....
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