Basics
Cap-Rent-Recycle: Common Sense on Catch Shares
2009-11-10
When it comes to management of U.S. fish resources, can we: • maintain public control of OUR fish resource? • manage for long-term ecosystem health? • promote green jobs and real living wages? • promote fairer rules for small-scale fishermen? • strengthen coastal and fishing communities? • get a financial return to reinvest in better ocean management? Yes, we can!
Catch Shares: Problems in Fisheries Management
2009-11-06
Catch share fishery management programs — also commonly known as individual fishing/transferable quotas, rationalization or limited access privilege programs — can be used as a method to privatize access to fish. This means they can give control over catching fish to only a handful of private individuals or companies, who can then exclude others.
Commercial Facility Based on the University of the Virgin Island’s Aquaponic System
2009-10-02
Since the 1980s, the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Agricultural Experiment Station in St. Croix has been conducting research on recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). Much of the UVI research is conducted using a commercial-size RAS that incorporates aquaponics. Aquaponics is the practice of growing herbs and vegetables in water from a RAS system that has fish growing ina connected tank. Through years of research, the staff at UVI has established an aquaponics RAS that is made of easily procured material and is simple and efficient to run. Using an eighth of an acre for production, the staff raises fish and produce that is sold at a farm store located on campus. The system includes four fish tanks, six hydroponic tanks and filtration tanks to support good water quality and growth for both the fish and plants.
Water Usage in Recirculating Aquaculture/Aquaponic Systems
2009-10-02
Clean water is a precious resource to be wisely utilized and conserved. Irrigation claims 70 percent of the water that we use. The excess water leaving industrial farms is often contaminated with silt, pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, making it unfit for reuse.
Fair Fish: Fair Access to Fish
2009-09-04
FAIR FISH is about making sure U.S. fish are managed for the long-term benefit of the fish, fishing communities and all of us in the United States.
BP’s Atlantis: Will It Cause a Catastrophic Accident in the Gulf of Mexico?
2009-07-08
Fact Sheet - BP has repeatedly skirted the law in developing the Atlantis project. BP’s own database from November 2008 shows that it does not have the required engineering certification for 85 percent of the project’s subsea piping and instrument diagrams and many of its safety shutdown systems’ logic diagrams.
More Ocean Fish Farms Coming to Your Island?
2009-06-18
Yet another ocean fish farm is being proposed off of the coast of the Big Island, Hawaii. Also called open ocean aquaculture or offshore aquaculture, ocean fish farming is the mass production of fish in huge, often-overcrowded net pens or cages out in open ocean waters. Indigo Seafood is seeking a lease for 80 acres in the Kawaihae area to grow Moi. They have not presented the public with the number of cages or the amount of fish that they intend to produce each year. Indigo Seafood is just another ocean fish farming operation – along with Kona Blue Water Farms, Cates International, and Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc. — looking to test out a new industry in Hawaii’s waters.
Kona Blue’s Ocean Aquaculture: Marketing the Myth of Sustainability
2009-06-09
Kona Blue Water Farms, LLC is an open ocean aquaculture operation that was founded in 2001 off the coast of Kona on Hawaii’s big island. Since its inception, Kona Blue has promoted itself as an environmental leader. Its Web site refers to farmed fish that are “sustainable from hatch to harvest” and an “environmentally friendly alternative” produced “without depleting wild fish stocks or harming the ocean environment.” In 2005, after several years of research and development, the company began producing a sushi-grade Hawaiian yellowtail which the locals call kahala, and is sold nationally as “Kona Kampachi.” It now bills itself as the “first integrated hatchery and fish farm in the country.” The farm produces around 25,000,pounds of kahala per week (as of March 2009) at about $17 per filleted pound when purchased directly. The majority of the product is destined for consumption on the American mainland.
Sustainable Seafood: The Benefits of Choosing Mahi-Mahi
2009-05-21
Mahi-mahi is a sweet and mild-flavored whitefish that may also be sold as "dolphin-fish” or “el dorado.”
Enormous Ahi Aquaculture Proposal for Hawaii Needs Reality Check
2009-05-20
In the summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), filed by Hawaiian Ocean Technologies, Inc. (HOTI) and made public on Feb. 23, 2009, the company says that annual production capacity will be 6,000 tons of ahi (Yellowfin and Bigeye tuna) each year. We know very little about important operating details of the endeavor, and even less about how the fishpens — called Oceanspheres — will affect marine wildlife. We do know that similar fish farm projects worldwide have caused problems for habitat, wild fish, water quality, and the economies of coastal communities.
Fact Sheets
Reports
- Land-Based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems — This report, Land-Based Recirculating Aquaculture ...
- Fishy Farms Updates — Since the initial release of Fishy Farms in Octobe ...
- Laboratory Error — Over the past few years, food safety alerts about ...
- Fish Story — After a series of safety scares about imported sea ...
- Fishy Farms — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ...