Fisheries resource survey in Oman
Forging ahead with high-performance broodstock
Cashing in on fish waste
TerraMarine brings gout relief closer
Antarctic fisheries and ecosystems
Dr Jane Symonds at NIWA’s Bream Bay Aquaculture Park. (Photo: Seumas Walker,NIWA)
NIWA’s strategy for improving the performance of key aquaculture broodstock aims to help realise government and industry growth targets of $1 billion by 2025.
The challenge the sector faces is to transform the developing kingfish, paua, and groper farming sectors into large-scale, commercially successful, and robust industries.
Antarctic fisheries areas and the Antarctic Convergence.
World experts on ecosystem approaches to fisheries management will gather in Christchurch next month to discuss effects of fisheries on Antarctic ecosystems during meetings of CCAMLR, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
CCAMLR was set up under the Antarctic Treaty system in 1982 to manage fisheries in the Southern Ocean and minimise their impacts on other marine life.
Fishermen sort through the morning’s catch, Muscat, Oman. (Photo: John Mckoy, NIWA)
NIWA has successfully tendered for a major fisheries resource survey in Oman, as part of a New Zealand consortium. NIWA will provide all of the science services for the design, implementation, and analysis of the survey.
The survey has been commissioned by the Oman Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries because of serious concerns about the state of fisheries resources.
TerraMarine Pharmaceuticals – a joint venture between NIWA, Crop & Food Research, and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research – has filed a patent for a range of compounds designed primarily to relieve acute gout symptoms.
The group hopes to begin pre-clinical development in the near future, with the aim of conducting clinical trials in New Zealand. TerraMarine’s science programme, led by NIWA’s Dr Vicky Webb, was set up in 2002 to discover and commercialise new non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs derived from New Zealand plants and marine organisms.
NIWA biotechnologist Debbie Hulston at work screening samples. (Photo: Alan Blacklock, NIWA)
NIWA’s biotechnology team continues to make steady progress in its quest to add value to fish waste by identifying ingredients for use in the cosmetics industry.
From a vast initial screening process, three novel bioactive products have been identified as having excellent potential, either as UV protectants or skin anti-ageing compounds.
