Monday, June 24, 2013

24/06/13: NZ Best Fish Guide; algae as art; crowd funded aquaponics project

Fish lovers in New Zealand can now be sure their farmed seafood is sustainable thanks to  Forest & Bird’s new Best Fish Guide.

The guide, which has helped consumers choose ecologically sound seafood since 2004, has been updated to include aquaculture farms. 

Pacific oysters, paua, Green-lipped mussels and both freshwater and marine-farmed salmon have been added to the guide’s ranking system.

We've heard of algae as a feed ingredient, a biofuel and a comestic ingredient but get alage as art is something new to us.

The V&A museum in London is hosting an artist in residence who creates art from seaweed. Julia Lohmann specialises in developing materials from kelp and objects from the materials created.

The 'Department of Seaweed' will be at the museum until September and there will be various open days throughout the summer.

We've reported a couple of times on the rise of aquaponics across the USA and the trend shows no signs of stopping. This article describes how looks at one start up in Texas which is being fundued through crowd sourcing.

English: Seeweed covered rocks.
English: Seeweed covered rocks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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