Flying fish

Salmon saviours (from left): Chief Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu; Matt Johnson, Senior Environmental Scientist, Supervisor, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

A rare Chinook salmon species in California has been given a chance to survive drought conditions thanks to a helicopter airlift, as Julia Hollister reports.

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Big country, big ideas

Aerial view of the sea fish farm cages and fishing village in XiaPu, FuJian province, China

The Chinese fish farming sector is steadily growing these days thanks partly to the growth of the country’s economy as a whole, which stimulates local demand for quality fish, especially in vast rural provinces of the country.

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Protecting human rights

Fish processing staff

The recent investigations uncovering human rights abuses in the farmed seafood industry, most recently in the shrimp industry in India, are very unsettling to read. While we all agree that these abuses should have no place in any industry, the reality is starker and more uncomfortable.

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Preparing aquaculture for climate change

The climate workshop at Nofima

Scotland and Norway joined forces last month to raise awareness and initiate action on climate change, as Elisabeth Ytteborg, Carlo C. Lazado and Lynne Falconer report. On 18 April, more than 70 people attended the Aquaculture and Climate Change workshop at the Nofima offices in Ås, Norway.

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