Tilapia

Tilapia Growing In Lake Sebu Stopped After Fish Kill

... Inquirer / 12:20 AM March 14, 2017. Tilapia grown in fish cages in Lake Sebu in South Cotabato province are supplied to markets in Central Mindanao. —JEOFFREY MAITEM. KORONADAL CITY—Officials of Lake Sebu town in South Cotabato province have imposed a three-year ban on tilapia cultivation in Lake Sebu after another fish kill last week laid to waste some 7,000 kilograms of potential tilapia harvest. Lake Sebu Mayor Antonio Fungan said the moratorium would give the 350-hectare lake a respite from pollution brought by massive fish production in recent years. The lake is host to some 5,000 fish cages owned by 460 operators. The growing of tilapia in the lake entailed the use of fish feed that settle at the bottom of the lake and decay, causing pollution. On Thursday, at least 7,000 kg of tilapia went belly-up in the lake due to lack of oxygen. The ...

Animal Nutrition And Breeding Company, Ew Group, Acquires Norwegian Tilapia Genetics Player

... Geno Mar Genetics' acquisition of the commercial rights to the GIFT strain, saying: “It may be argued that access to the genetically improved fish breeds needs to be kept available to the public, to benefit those who need it most. Otherwise, the advances made, the improvements in productivity, will be available only to those who can afford them, together with the associated inputs such as specialized feed. “This could endanger the livelihoods of the millions of people in countries such as the Philippines who rely on aquaculture. If public access to breeds such as the improved tilapia can be maintained, then these livelihoods may continue to flourish.”. Reacting, Magne Rødseth said the EW Group investigated the content of the report and talked with different central persons involved in the negotiations both from the GIFT program and from Gernomar AS. "We have full confidence that the information we have received from the founder of Genomar, Dr Oystein Lie, and the director of the Gift Foundation International Inc, Dr Ambekar Eknath, is correct and [that it] documents the intention ...

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Trains 15,000 Shrimp And Tilapia Farmers Asia, South Pacific

... 2017. Norway’s salmon producers are turning to radical farming techniques in. the face of multiple threats to their industry. From futuristic egg-shaped enclosures that bob in the water to supertanker-like structures submerged in the ocean, the Norwegian government is trying to counter increasing challenges in the form of sea lice, fish escapes and the shortage of suitable coastline for aquaculture. One of the big problems for salmon farmers in Norway, the world’s largest salmon producers, has been the rise of sea lice. Stavis Seafoods Hires Former Icicle QA manager Brandii Holmdahl as Director of Quality>. SEAFOODNEWS. COM [Seafood News] March 14, 2017. Major Boston-based seafood importer, processor and distributor Stavis Seafoods hired Brandii Holmdahl as the company’s new Director of Quality. Holmdahl is a veteran of the ...

Can Tilapia Skin Be Used To Bandage Burns

... Doctors here are testing the skin of the popular fish as a bandage for second- and third-degree burns. The innovation arose from an unmet need. Animal skin has long been used in the treatment of burns in developed countries. But Brazil lacks the human skin, pig skin, and artificial alternatives that are widely available in the US. The three functional skin banks in Brazil can meet only 1 percent of the national demand, said Dr. Edmar Maciel, a plastic surgeon and burn specialist leading the clinical trials with tilapia skin. As a result, public health patients in Brazil are normally bandaged with gauze and silver sulfadiazine cream. “It’s a burn cream because there’s silver in it, so it prevents the burns from being infected,” said Dr. Jeanne Lee, interim burn director at the the ...

Can Tilapia Skin Help Heal Burn Victims

... are experimenting with sterilized fish skin as bandages. When it's used as a burn treatment, the skin of tilapia reduces the need for pain medication. (Photo: visa netpakdee/Shutterstock). There's some fascinating research going on in Brazil that could save burn victims from unnecessary pain and infections. In Brazil, fish farming is a big business, but farmers typically throw away the skin from farmed tilapia. Doctors are experimenting with these skins — after they've been sterilized, of course — as bandages for burn victims, reports Stat. (Yes, there are some horror movie scenarios that come to mind, but listen to the science before your mind goes too far.). The patient is covered in fish skin because researchers have found that collagen proteins, which help skin scar, are abundant in tilapia skin, even more so than in human skin. In a country where human skin, pig ...

Gift Brings Good Fortune To Tilapia Farmers

... There is a sharp increase in the demand for GIFT seeds. The number of seeds distributed among farmers increased to 16 lakh in 2016-17 from 22,000 in 2013-14. The demand is expected to reach 50 lakh in the next fiscal,” said MPEDA-Kochi deputy director M Shaji. Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia. in a tank at a farm. The GIFT variety of the fish was developed using the strains of Nile tilapia, which is suitable for small and commercial culture. It has become one of the most sought-after aquaculture fish in the Ernakulam district,  especially at Cherai, Kothamangalam and Aluva. According to Shaji, farmers in the region are adopting innovative methods such as aquaponics and re-circulating aquaculture system. Their success has resulted in demand for seeds increasing further. “This variety is disease-resistant, which makes the cultivation risk-free and profitable. A large number of conventional fish farmers are shifting to the new method of cultivation,” he said.   A major advantage of GIFT farming is uniform growth/high survival rate and tolerance to ...

Restaurant Fined $120k For Trying To Pass Off Tilapia As Fancy Fish

... $120 K for Trying to Pass Off Tilapia as Fancy Fish. Restitution will be made in that lowliest of currencies: the gift certificate. "Out of the blue and into the black. They give you this, but you pay for that.". These famous words sung by Neil Young were originally about rock n' roll, but they can apply to a lot of situations. Like, say, paying for petrale sole and getting tilapia. It's not exactly the most rock n' roll situation, but it's enough to put a restaurant out of the black and into the red. This is the stunt that Odeum in Santa Clara, California tried to pull on its customers between October 2014 and March 2016, which was a hell of a long time to be pretending that tilapia was the pricier fish, and also suggests that diners, when it came down to it, couldn't really tell the difference. But that doesn't make it any less fucked up or illegal. Eventually, the Santa Clara County DA's office got an anonymous complaint, and an investigation confirmed the fish switch,which is now the center of a huge settlement between Odeum and the DA and diners, according to CBS SF Bay Area. READ MORE: Almost Every Kind of Wild Fish Is ...

Martinsville Students Learn To Raise Tilapia

... Since then, they’ve become akin to pets for some of the students. “I like the fish a lot because they’re cute,” Savannah Judkins said. “I just like to watch them.”. While Judkins said the tilapia mostly “just float around in there,” the fish get excited around meal times. “They all come up waiting for us to feed them,” Judkins said. Roberson started thinking early in the school year about animals students could care for over a long period of time. Being in the city posed a challenge, but the teacher took it in stride. “The thing with fish is it’s a lot easier to have a tank of fish than a pasture of cows in a city school,” Roberson said. “Tilapia are tropical fish. They can handle quite a bit compared to trout, which can be sensitive.”. Kept in a tank of water at a constant temperature of ...

Genetic Key To Salt-tolerance Discovered In Tilapia Fish

... Mozambique tilapia, one of four tilapia species that readily interbreed, producing hybrids that are used worldwide in aquaculture operations. Growing rapidly, these tilapia hybrids are easy to raise and have a high tolerance for salinity stress. The researchers identified five DNA sequences, each containing a common segment that they named OSRE 1, as being enhancers of the osmoregulation and salinity-response processes. They also laid the groundwork for manipulating the OSRE 1 enhancers, paving the way for future targeted studies aimed at identifying gene regulatory networks that confer salinity responsiveness to fish. 21 hours ago. Study sheds new light on how some fish adapt to saltwater. October 8, 2013. __link__) —Tilapia fish readily adapt to fresh or salty water, making them both good candidates for aquaculture and potential invasive pests. New work at the University ...

Why This Brazilian City Uses Tilapia Fish Skin To Treat Burn Victims

... public health patients in Brazil are normally bandaged with gauze and silver sulfadiazine cream. “It’s a burn cream because there’s silver in it, so it prevents the burns from being infected,” said Dr. Jeanne Lee, interim burn director at the the regional burn center at the University of California at San Diego. “But it doesn’t help in terms of debriding a burn or necessarily helping it heal.”. READ MORE: First Look: Plumbing the mysteries of sweat to help burn patients cool their skin. The gauze-and-cream dressing must be changed every day, a painful process. In the burn unit at Fortaleza’s José Frota Institute, patients contort as their wounds are unwrapped and washed. Enter the humble tilapia, a fish that’s widely farmed in Brazil and whose skin, until now, was considered trash. Unlike the gauze bandages, the sterilized tilapia skin goes on and stays on. The first step in the research process was to analyze the fish skin. “We got a great surprise when we saw that the amount of ...

Tilapia Processors Restart With Stable Prices; Shrimp Production Above Expectations

... COM  __link__]  Translated by Amy Zhong  March 15, 2017. On March 7, Shenzhen customs seized another load of illegal seafood in a smuggling case. In total, there were around 34 cartons of lobsters weighing 1.07 tons. The smugglers planned to illegally bring in these lobsters through Wenjindu port of Shenzhen respectively at 14:05 and 14:10 that day. And they used two trucks which were documented as empty. Similar seafood smuggling has been uncovered in China from time to time, despite relevant departments’ criminal take-down operations and documents released to cut tariff rates. For example, one year after the implementation of the FTA between China and Australia, the tariff rates have declined or even been eliminated for Australian seafood. However, over half of Australian seafood still illegally entered China through Vietnam or Hong Kong in 2016. Russia's Pollock Catch in Okhotsk Sea Loses Momentum in Early March. SEAFOODNEWS. COM [Seafood News]  March 15, 2017. According to the Hokkaido Federation of Fishermen, the catch of pollock with roe for the Russian A season totaled 498,900 tons as of March 8, down about 7% ...