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ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO AQUACULTURE The FAO has released new Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries

• n the Ecosystem

approach to aquaculture (EAA). The EAA is a strategy for the integration

• f the activity within the

wider ecosystem such that it promotes sustainable development, equity and resilience of interlinked social- ecological systems. As such, the focus is not what is done, but rather how it is done. The main

• bjective of these

guidelines is to assist countries, institutions and policy-makers in the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure the sustainability of the aquaculture sector, integration of aquaculture with other sectors and its contribution to social and economic development.

AQUACULTURE THE NEXT BIG MONEY MAKER

People in quickly

developing countries such as China have been altering their diets to include more expensive sources of

• protein. First choice is

poultry and pork followed by beef, but this move is not sustainable, especially BE THE FIRST TO SEE THE BEST AQUARIUM IN INDIA The Recently opened ‘Ganga' aquarium at National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources ,Lucknow which was inaugurated by S Ayyappan, Secretary, Department of Agriculture Research & Education has 42 large aquaria containing around 100 fish species belonging to continents of Asia, Africa, North and South America. "Effort has been made to display fish of ornamental, sport, food and medicinal importance so that it can provide hands-on information about fish to people," said J K Jena, director, NBFGR. The Aquarium displays deadly piranhas to most beautiful Feng Shui (flower horn) and large pacu/catla/mahseer to tiny tetras. Among important exotic ornamentals, goldfishes (bubble-eyed, celestial, comet, blackmoor, shubunkin, red oranda), koi carp, angels, alligator gar, sting ray, tetras, ghostfish, fire mouth, Malawi cichlids, malayan angels and several other types are present. "Some of the fish are rarest of the rare types and this is the place where people can see them "said aquarist Indramani Raja. "The aquarium is one of the best in the country," said artist, Girish Tiwari. http://bit.ly/aMEabZ COME LETS JOIN HANDS FOR LIFECYCLE – A Major Research Project to Boost European Fish Farming By Dr Bjorn Thrandur Bjornsson

European fish farms are to be globally

competitive and produce top quality fish in an economically and ecologically

In This Issue

Be the first to see the Best Aquarium in India Event alert. Ecosystem approach to Aquaculture. GUEST COLUMN: Come & Join hands to the LIFECYCLE- A Major Research Project to Boost European Fish Farming. By Dr Bjorn Thrandur Bjornsson Aquaculture:The Next Big Money Maker Q & A Hour.

EVENT ALERT

Asia pacific 2011The first ever conference

• rganized by World

Aquaculture society in India which will be held in Kochi, Kerala from 17 to 20 Jan 2011.

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FISHY FACTS

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due to the excessive amounts of water and grain needed to raise cattle. Kevin Schwartz, a partner at US private equity firm Paine & Partners, noted that there exists a major interest in fish that can both provide an alternative source of protein and which can be raised sustainably, Reuters reported. "Aquaculture is a way to meet that demand," he said to the bankers, fund managers and investors who came together at the Global Ag Investing Europe 2010 conference last week in Geneva. Low cost protein Farmed fish such as tilapia would have no trouble finding bountiful consumers around the planet, said Rich Gammill, managing director of Black River Asset Management, part of agri-business giant Cargill. "It just makes sense economically for people to turn to fish as a low-cost source of protein," he said. Gammill suggested that aquaculture would avert ecological destruction from overfishing stocks and thus attract developed market customers as well. "From a sustainability point, this needs to be developed," he stated at the conference. "There is an opportunity for Central America, for southeast Asia and for

• ther markets who

have control over their water quality and practices to play a sustainable way. That is the aim of the LIFECYCLE research project www.lifecycle-fp7.eu , which is directed from the University of Gothenburg,

• Sweden. A total sum of 10 M€ is being

invested in the project, of which 6 M€4 million comes from the EU. Europe is the part of the world that is most dependent on fish imports. This situation is due in part to the drastic cuts in local sea fish quotas and the collapse of fish stocks, which have also been observed in

• Sweden. The increased level of imports

may have several consequences: low supply and high prices lead to a decrease in consumption, which in turn results in public-health problems as fish forms part

• f a healthy diet.

Over-exploitation and long-haul transport The fact that we make use of fish stocks in

• ther parts of the world also contributes to
• ver-exploitation, as well as to

multinational fisheries enterprises dislodging local fishing industries. The EU, for example, has bought substantial fishing rights along the coast of Africa. Imports also lead to long-haul transport and make quality control more difficult. EU-funds to improve fish-farming At the same time, there has not been great support for the idea of making up for reduced fishing by developing Swedish fish

• farming. In its latest research bill,

however, the Swedish Government stresses "increased knowledge for the development of aquaculture" as a high-priority area of research. The EU has also announced research funds to improve the competitiveness of the European fish-farming industry. One consequence of this is the launch of the EU project LIFECYCLE, which is directed by Professor Thrandur Björnsson and his research team at the Department of Zoology of the University of Gothenburg. Enhance biological knowledge The purpose of LIFECYCLE is to enhance knowledge of the physiology of fish so that the problems that arise in relation to the life processes of farmed fish can be

• tackled. Examples of such problems are

disruption during larval development and growth, in metamorphosis and puberty, in immunological defense and in adaptations to the environment. Through new research, the project is intended to enhance biological knowledge of these life processes, identify answers to practical s in the land, gang wars and blood hunts take place in the sea too and the anglerfish family is the ‘Corleone family’ among the sea hunter fishes. Anglerfishes are the members of the ‘Lophiformes’ order and they are named after their characteristic mode of predation. Some of them live in the deep sea and in

• pen water while
• thers play their

dangerous games on the continental shelf. The depths of the Antarctic and Atlantic

• ceans are observed

as the anglerfish habitat putting up around 200 species of these

• creatures. They flourish

in the lightless bottom

• f the sea. They are

characterized by the enormous crescent shaped mouths filled with sharp teeth. Rare anglerfishes grow up to 3.3 feet height while most of them are smaller than a foot. Read on to know more about the facts about the cruising of angler fishes in the deep blue sea.

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much greater role," he added.

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"The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal." problems and improve the fish-farming process, in terms of both ethics and quality. New species Research at the University of Gothenburg will focus on growth and development physiology, intestinal physiology, the adaptation of fish to different environments and hormonal regulation of different life processes. ”In this project we will be primarily conducting research on the four most important farmed species in Europe, Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, sea bream and European sea bass, but also on species such as Atlantic cod and Atlantic halibut," says Björnsson. Researchers gather in Rennes Fourteen research teams from nine countries are taking part in the four-year EU project which started on 1 February

• 2009. In February 2011, about 70

scientists involved in the project will meet in Rennes, France, to summarize the advances already made and for detailed planning of the many complex experiments and collaborations scheduled for the second half of the project time. Scientific Output and Dissemination As in all research, there’s a lag-time between the experiments and the publication of the obtained data. However, some data have already been published and/or presented at international conferences, and with a large number of publications underway, the pace of publications and presentations will be increasing rapidly. In an effort to reach scientists and aquaculturists as quickly and effectively as possible, a website has being established www.lifecycle-fp7.eu information about the aim of the project, the research groups involved, the fish species, as well as all publications and poster presentations are gathered.

Dr Bjorn Thrandur Bjornsson is the Professor of Zoophysiology at University of Gothenburg & Coordinator of the EU Project LIFECYCLE. for more details contact

thrandur.bjornsson@zool.gu.se

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