Farmers have used cancer-causing industrial dye Sudan Red to boost the value of their eggs and fed an asthma medication to pigs to produce leaner meat. Worried about losing access to foreign markets and stung by tainted food products scandals at home, China has in recent years tried to improve inspections, with limited success. Just as with manufactured goods, exports of meat, produce, and processed foods from China have soared in recent years, prompting outcries from foreign farm sectors...

The plan, unanimously approved by members of the California Fish and Game Commission, will create a statewide system of connected ocean preserves where fishing and other human activities would be limited or banned. The first phase sets aside the waters along a 200-mile stretch of the coast, including tidal areas that fan out three miles from shore, to protect marine habitat between Point Conception, near Santa Barbara, and Half Moon Bay, about 25 miles south of here. California Adopts...

In particular, warmer oceans, changes in currents, disruption of reproductive cycles and mass migration of species would affect Australia's marine life, particularly in the southeast. Salmon farming businesses would become largely unviable as the ocean warmed the predicted one to two degrees over the next 30 years, Hobday said. It is the first major study in the Australian region to combine the research of climate modellers, ecologists and fisheries and aquaculture scientists. Already,...

To put the aquaculture industry into perspective, in the United States it's a one billion dollar industry -- worldwide that number increases to eight billion dollars. benton@wsaz.com Fish Farm Gets Attention in Washington The cold water from one abandoned mine in Mingo County, West Virginia is shaping the future of fish farming, and it's getting attention in Washington, D. Thursday Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez visited the fish farm near the town of Pie. For station contact purpose...

Find www.app.com stories from the past week as well as calendar events, classifieds, advertisements, Yellow Page listings, local Web sites and more all in one search. Seaport officials are looking ahead to June 30, when the museum plans to open an exhibit at the Crest Fishery building that will take people back in time to the days when pound fishing was a way of life along the Jersey Shore. Inside, customers will see a time line of the history of pound fishing as well as get a perspective...

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Fish Production Attracts N7. allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Fish Production Attracts N7. Chief Obasanjo who disclosed this while declaring open the First International Catfish Fair, described the sector as the fastest growing in the Agricultural sector, saying that aquaculture output had increased by 29 percent in the past one year while artisanal and industrial fisheries had also grown by 5 percent and 10 percent respectively. allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Fish Production...