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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMING may be becoming increasingly high-tech, but somehow, it still seems rather odd to couple digging potatoes with launching shiny satellites into orbit around the Earth. But, in fact – as many British farmers well know – space technology has offered useful services to agriculture and will increasingly do so in the future.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Clean Power from Lignite is developing a system for heating and squeezing coal that will cut the need for extra energy to evaporate water content in this much maligned fuel by up to 90 per cent.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Venkatesh Coke and Power Ltd. has announced that it has secured a sales contract for selling coke to Germany’s RAG from its planned 110MW power station in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, which will import 1.2 million tonnes of coking coal per year, mostly low ash coal from Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS have developed two new twists on the ever-popular advance fee scam. The International Chamber of Commerce has warned of a Nigerian oil fraud particularly featuring Bonny Light oil, where fake oil traders offer up to 1 million barrels at below market rates, following the payment of cash fees of around US$50,000.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AUSTRALIAN government has resorted to hiring a public relations firm to persuade the citizens of South Australia (SA) to abandon its opposition to plans to install a low level nuclear waste in outback Woomera.

Hill and Knowlton, the international communications company, which has with 66 offices worldwide, has been given an A$300,000 federal government contract to run a campaign from its Melbourne office.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE and Australia have reached an informal ‘general agreement’ on an open skies arrangement and formal discussions are expected to begin on liberalising the two countries’ respective air space within months. The deal could clear regulatory hurdles hindering a Qantas-Air New Zealand alliance and allow Singapore Airlines to operate direct Australia-USA-Europe direct flights.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A new treatment to protect chickens against infection could phase out antibiotics in the poultry industry. The system, developed by Australia’s science authority CSIRO, provides a way of delivering antibiotic alternatives – natural proteins called cytokines – into chickens.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE, in London, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane, and RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg

Introduction

Europe

Cuts to EU catch quotas

New sources of fish

Affect on fish producers

Wild alternatives to cod

Farmed cod

North America

USA – Healthier local stocks

USA – Demand up

USA – Fish imports

Canada – Farmed fish exports

Canada – GM issues

Australasia

Australia – New wild sources

Australia – Aquaculture

Australia – Wild fish innovation

Australia and New Zealand – sustainability

South Africa – Export increase and conservation

Japan – Local and regional supply

Japan – Maintaining quality

Japan – Non-Asian sources

Introduction

ONCE it was said, cod was so abundant that fishermen in some parts of the world boasted they could walk on the backs of the fish to find their catch.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has identified four strains of lactobacilli that could help treat intestinal inflammations and infections. The DEPROHEALTH scheme has received Euro1.4 million in Brussels money; its aim is to develop oral probiotic bacteria vaccines to counter conditions such as rotavirus, which causes infant diarrhoea, and Chrohn’s disease.…