Tight restrictions and big appetites promise tidy profits if farms can iron out kinks Full farming of bluefin tuna, which starts with getting the fish to spawn in a completely artificial environment, is finally showing signs of becoming profitable. Investors are responding accordingly, pushing up the stocks of companies that […]
Daily Archives: October 19, 2017
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Taiwan’s largest aquaculture companies are investing in the Philippines as their production hub for seafood exports to Taiwan and ASEAN countries. Patty Yen, deputy executive director for strategic marketing department of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), said this at the first Taiwan Aquaculture Trade Mission to the Philippines held […]
Malta-based AquaBioTech Group has built a new facility in the Netherlands it says will help research the capabilities of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). The Coppens Aqua Centre (ACAC), owned by aquatic nutrition firm Alltech Coppens International, opened recently in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands. It was designed to provide the company the […]
Researchers from AZTI, Biopolis S.L. (Spain), University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Aguacircia Aquaculture company (Portugal) have evaluated the impact of the use of bacteriophages that fight the pathogens responsible for diseases that affect species bred in fish farms. Replacing antibiotics with phages is a highly promising option in aquaculture […]