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• China says its seafood is safer and better

  Published: January 19, 2008, 6:01 am

  Tags: China, Exports, Fish Farming, Food Safety, Imports, Seafood

  under: Business, Fish, Shellfish, Health & Medical"Safer and better" than what? you may be asking yourself.After a year of food (and toy) safety problems on their record including tainted seafood, the Chinese government is instituting programs and regulations to restore confidence in the safety of their seafood exports. Among the

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• Salmon Virus Indicts Chile's Fishing Methods

  Published: March 27, 2008, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Get Wet, Natural Waterfront, Aquaculture, Fish, Fish Farming, Fisheries, Salmon, Sustainable, Wild Fish

  Looking out over the low green mountains jutting through miles of placid waterways here in southern Chile, it is hard to imagine that anything could be amiss. But beneath the rows of neatly laid netting around the fish farms just off the shore, the salmon are dying. Joao Pina for The New York Times A fisherman [...]

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• As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up

  Published: July 18, 2008, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Dive In, Catfish, Commodities, Farm Raised Catfish, Fish Farming

  Catfish farmers across the South, unable to cope with the soaring cost of corn and soybean feed, are draining their ponds. It's a dead business, said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s. Last year Dillard & Company raised 11 million fish. Next year it will raise none. People [...]

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