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Rose Michael from Malahide, Co Dublin, was recently awarded with a gold badge for her tireless fundraising efforts over the last 40 years on behalf of the RNLI. She received her award from RNLI president the Duke of Kent at a ceremony in London. Admitting …

Known as "brain food," fish has long been considered a lean protein that should be part of a healthy, balanced diet. That is still true for the most part, but as society changes the environment, the choices become a bit more complicated. First, …

(Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The Atlantic salmon, already an endangered species in the United States and in parts of Canada, is facing a new threat: A recent breakdown in an international agreement with Greenland may mean that tens of …

A talented cast saved this English film from ignominy, although some parts of it were worth watching. The scenery and choreography were exquisite even though the movie was filmed in Scotland and not in the Yemen. The unlikely tale surrounds a sheik (Amr …

A few years ago, I was at a sustainable seafood conference held in New York. The place was buzzing with equal parts excitement (surrounding innovations in aquaculture and sustainable fish stocks) and dread (surrounding the dwindling supply of healthy wild …

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 06/12/13 -- The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement: "Fisheries and Oceans Canada is very disappointed with reports that Greenland has changed its …

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has tested more than 4,000 samples from wild salmon on the West Coast without getting any positive results for three fish diseases that have raised alarms in British Columbia. In a statement Tuesday, the CFIA said all …

Panama expects benefits from GM salmon By SeafoodSource staff 12 June, 2013 - Panama's researchers have played a key role in creating a rapidly growing salmon that may soon become the world's first commercially sold genetically modified (GM) …

The transgenic fish are grown in land-based facilities in west Panama Aquabounty Panama's researchers have played a key role in creating a rapidly growing salmon that may soon become the world's first commercially sold genetically modified (GM) …

By Mark Zaretsky mzaretsky@nhregister.com @MarkZar on Twitter Tommy Fitzgerald holds a sedated salmon in his hand. To the left is his colleague Rick Napierski. (Darren Yip/For the Register) It was a romantic idea and a grand experiment — a vision of …

By Mark Zaretsky mzaretsky@nhregister.com / Twitter: @markzar Tommy Fitzgerald holds a sedated salmon in his hand. To the left is his colleague Rick Napierski. Darren Yip/For the Register It was a romantic idea and a grand experiment — a vision of …

Fisheries biologists who have been working to restore Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario are now trying to restore the population of its natural prey as well. Lake herring and bloaters were once plentiful in the cold depths of Lake Ontario, where they fed on …

CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Fisheries biologists who have been working to restore Atlantic salmon to Lake Ontario are now trying to restore the population of its natural prey as well. Lake herring and bloaters were once plentiful in the cold depths of Lake …

‘THE smaller ones are bigger over here!” Jackie Coyne said as he steered our boat to the northern shoreline close to Cloghans Bay. How right he was. Throughout the day, numerous trout came to our team of mayfly patterns, yet most fell agonisingly short of …

The dam is beginning to crack, faster than I would have believed possible. Britain, one of the world's most zoophobic nations, is at last considering the return of some of its extinct and charismatic mammal species. While wolves, lynx, bears, bison, …

by Kim Thompson, Sustainable Seafood Expert for the Menuism Seafood Blog, and Betsy Suttle We often don't know where the food on our plate comes from. When it comes to seafood, this might be particularly true. While U.S. seafood is among the best …

Record high third Copper River opening By SeafoodSource staff 03 June, 2013 - The Copper River sockeye salmon season’s third opening was the highest third opener on record, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) reports. “We took a period …

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has released its annual report on the status of wild Atlantic salmon populations globally. The findings will be presented at the 30th annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation …

by Samantha Bui, Frode Oppedal, Øyvind J. Korsøen, Damien Sonny, Tim Dempster Understanding species-specific flight behaviours is essential in developing methods of guiding fish spatially, and requires knowledge on how groups of fish respond to aversive …

by Kevin Alan Glover, Anne Grete Eide Sørvik, Egil Karlsbakk, Zhiwei Zhang, Øystein Skaala In March 2012, fishermen operating in a fjord in Northern Norway reported catching Atlantic cod, a native fish forming an economically important marine fishery in …