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A small hydropower dam in Brazil.Victor Baptista The development of small hydropower dams is widespread throughout Brazil and elsewhere in the world, vastly overshadowing large hydropower projects. The proliferation of these smaller dams is a response to growing energy and security needs. Their expansion, however, threatens many of the remaining free-flowing rivers and biodiverse tropical regions of the world— interrupting the migrations of freshwater fishes, on which millions of peoples’ livelihoods depend. A new University of Washington paper published Jan. 11 in Nature Sustainability q...

CHENGDU, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese officials and researchers on Thursday released 80 Dabry sturgeon into the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the latest

Credit: Chris Anderson/University of Washington Fish populations tend to do better in places where rigorous fisheries management practices are used, and the more measures employed, the better for fish populations and food production, according to a new paper published Jan. 11 in Nature Sustainability. The study, led by Michael Melnychuk of the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, draws upon the expertise of more than two dozen researchers from 17 regions around the world. The research team analyzed the management practices of nearly 300 fish populations to tease...

Full article The Conson Group plans to invest in an aquaculture armada consisting of 50 such ships with a gross tonnage of 100,000 tons each, which are expected to annually produce about 200,000 tons of fish Construction of the world's first 100,000-ton large-scale fish farming ship started in Qingdao of East China's Shandong Province on Saturday, pioneering a new mode of industrial farming with “movable fish farms” on distant seas. Funded by the state-owned Qingdao Conson Development Group Co, the vessel, named Guoxin No.1, is expected ...

2020-12-21 10:05:21 GMT2020-12-21 18:05:21(Beijing Time) Xinhua English QINGDAO, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Construction of the world's first 100,000-tonnage smart fish farming ship has started in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao. The aquaculture ship Conson No.1, which is 249.9 meters long and 45 meters wide, is expected to be delivered in March 2022, said Dong Shaoguang, deputy general manager of Qingdao Conson Development Group, an investor in the construction project. With a water body displacement of 130,000 tonnes and a design speed of 10 knots, it can move to avoid typhoons, red tid...