“The aquaculture industry aims to reach $1 billion in sales by 2025. Technology that promotes sustainability, efficiency, and the ability to farm further offshore will play a significant role in achieving this target,” said Dr Cornelisen. Scientists are set to research the application of transformational tech for the aquaculture industry, […]
Archivos diarios: 10/27/2017
The United States annually imports nearly $1 billion worth of tilapia while producing another 30 million pounds ourselves. This makes tilapia the U.S.’s fourth most consumed fish. Worldwide, farmed-raised tilapia is nearly an $8 billion yearly industry. Those same tilapia farmers lose about $1 billion annually due to streptococcosis. The […]
A New York state-based company that used a former mattress factory to launch an indoor shrimp aquaculture operation has agreed to buy waste heat from an eco-friendly Maine power plant, the Portland Press Herald reports. Kimberly Samaha, the CEO of Born Global, reportedly told the newspaper that she and her […]
It aims at giving a fillip to technology and skill development in the fisheries sector. The Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the technology incubation centre of the Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), will collaborate with Bharthidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, to give a fillip to technology and skill development in […]
Japan is planning to ship out the bluefin tuna fish as early as November 2017, and have also considered exporting the fish to the bigger market The cultivation of completely farm-raised bluefin tuna can effectively protect natural resources. This is in line with the country’s initiative to protect bluefin tuna, […]
Startup’s high-tech approach to feeding fish reduces waste and hassle It was the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2007. Gibran El Farizy, a student at the Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java in Indonesia, was starving. Farizy’s parents were late sending his monthly allowance of 600,000 rupiah (about […]
With its wide temperature tolerance, the humble bass may be a good option for commercial production. One of the best-known fish species in Southern Africa is the bass. Present in farm or state dams across the country, this popular sport angling fish originated in North America. Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) […]