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 […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
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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) […]
Instead of trying to prevent saltwater invasion and desalinizing, it would be better to adapt to the new circumstances and think of developing aquaculture in Mekong Delta, scientists say. In the Mekong Delta, one of the largest key agriculture production zones in the country, alkaline soil accounts for 18.6 percent […]
Hawaii aquaculture farms generated slightly less revenue last year, marking a second annual consecutive dip after a 2014 record. A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week said the value of farm-raised marine animals sold by producers statewide slipped 0.7 percent last year to $75.7 million from $76.2 […]
The Murmansk salmon farmer says the Norwegians will help boost its annual production of red fish to 30,000 tons by year 2025. One of Russia’s biggest breeders of farmed salmon, the Russian Aquaculture, is buying its second Norwegian smolt producer. The Olden Oppdrettsanlegg AS, a company based in the fjords […]
FIFO (Fish in: Fish out) for the conversion of wild feed fish to farmed salmon is 1:1.22 (2015 ratio), showing that farmed salmon now produce globally more consumable protein than is used in feed. For all fed aquaculture, the FIFO is 0.22:1 (2015), or 1:4.55 (i.e. every kilogram of wild fish supports […]
Disease from salmon farms has never been implicated to have impacted wild salmon in British Columbia. Other than findings of certain anti-fish farm activists, whose scientific procedure has been shown at times to not have scientific integrity, there is no evidence of harm to wild salmon from farmed. In one […]