MAKAPU'U New research into raising rapid-growing, disease-resistant shrimp is bearing fruit for a nonprofit group hoping to jumpstart a declining industry. Most existing farms raise shrimp in concentrations of about 80 per square meter of water, but the capacity at Oceanic Institute is more than 800 shrimp per square meter, said Shaun Moss, director of the shrimp department. The researchers have used selective breeding to come up with a shrimp that can survive in densely populated waters,...

Thailand affirmed to the American authorities that food safety is part of Thailand's national agenda, including agricultural products to be exported to the US, which are certified by food standards agencies both to boost confidence among consumers and competitiveness in the world market. Thailand affirmed to the American authorities that food safety is part of Thailand's national agenda, including agricultural products to be exported to the US, which are certified by food standards...

This time it is a battle of small-scale subsistence fishermen battling governments and industrial fishing companies to whom their traditional fishing rights have been given away. In just the past few months, the Sri Lankan Navy has attacked Indian fishing vessels, strikes have rocked India, local subsistence fishermen in the Philippines protested the loss of their traditional access rights to foreign vessels, angry clashes have broken out in Chile and Taiwan, a mutiny hit Papua New Guinea,...

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Scallops are prohibited from commercial fishing. She loves scallop season, both the shellfish and the business it brings. With no food or water and only a wad of bubble gum in his mouth, Michael Graham says it was basic instincts and a few facts he learned from a board game that kept him alive. Children under 16 and adults over 65 do not need a fishing license. The scallops are found in the grasses in shallow water. Add in nets, buckets, a dive flag, scallop knife, and a fishing license...

After he had used a Sabiki rig -- a series of tiny feather-dressed jigs -- to capture several live fish, Jarusinski set out four of the baits on his lines. Once he was trolling slowly around the same buoy where he caught the baits, he unscrewed a cap topping a piece of 4-inch-diameter PVC pipe mounted in the motor well at the back of the boat and poured in a gooey concoction that looked like a cross between honey and molasses. Once he was trolling slowly around the same buoy where he...