As world fisheries are declining the demands upon the aquaculture industry to supply consumers with fishery produce are increasing.
Species assignment is very important in the context of fisheries research, fisheries control, and consumer protection.
Our mission is to promote sustainable fisheries and consumer practices by reaching out to our peers, community members, and local industries through education, outreach, and community participation.
Aquaculture in Bulgaria is reported to be 15 754 tonnes in 2016, which is 64.7percentt in the total fish production of 24 368 tonnes in the same year.Bulgaria is one of the lowest per capita consumers of fish and fishery products in the European Union.
"Illegal fishing is cheating honest fishermen and consumers, and preventing fisheries from recovering," Jacqueline Savitz, vice president for U.S. oceans at Oceana, told The Huffington Post.
"Ultimately, in order to safeguard the future of sharks, we have got to keep pushing for a combination of sustainably managed fisheries and responsible consumer supply chains".
A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare, environmental and fisheries groups announced opposition to the approval last week, citing, in particular, concerns that the salmon could escape and possibly outcompete wild salmon for food or mates.
In the episode last spring involving chicken feed, which got little attention, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries said the consumer group's test involved too small a sample and was statistically flawed, but it did not move to conduct its own tests of the feed immediately.
The development of the described DNA microarray for the identification of 30 fish species represents the next step towards an automated and easy-to-handle assay that can be applied in ichthyoplankton surveys, by companies involved in fish trade as well as authorities concerned with fisheries control and consumer protection.
This accrues benefits for commercial fisheries and mobile consumer species (Schindler et al. 2010, 2013; Ruff et al. 2011).
