Monthly Archives: December 2017

A company proposing a $56 million fish feed factory in Tasmania’s north-west is reassuring the local community it will meet smell and noise restrictions. BioMar Australia hopes to set up the factory at Wesley Vale, near Devonport, producing 110,000 tonnes of aqua feed per year and creating 55 ongoing jobs. […]

Anders C. Bylling is the Managing Director of Aller Aqua Qingdao and son of Hans Erik Bylling. Anders explains that the process of building a factory in China has been long. “We have had some delays along the way, but we reached our goal. Our Chinese team has worked exceptionally […]

There is huge potential for aquaculture in India and plans are afoot to promote multi-species cultivation unlike smaller countries that bank on a few species. “It has become important for India, as a signatory to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), to introduce a surveillance programme to monitor aquatic […]

As part of an effort “to foster responsible aquaculture and seafood security” in U.S. markets, NOAA Fisheries is making $1.5 million available through the nation’s regional Interstate Marine Fisheries Commissions to fund a competitive grant program to fund aquaculture pilot projects. As part of that program, the Atlantic States Marine […]

The Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and its partners are expanding next year’s Top Gun entrepreneurship program to include companies in the aquaculture sector. MCED announced Monday that applications are now being accepted for Top Gun 2018, an entrepreneurship acceleration program that has helped more than 175 startups since 2009. […]

Partners and stakeholders pose for a photo during the launch of the national aquaculture curriculum in Nairobi. The programme seeks to boost aquaculture in the country and enhance farmers’ livelihoods while protecting L Victoria and its environment and natural resources. A national aquaculture curriculum has been launched to promote, boost […]

Pacific Trading Aquaculture has announced that from December 1st 2017 they will be changing their company name to a shortened version of the current name and re branding as PT Aqua. There are no structural or physical changes to the company’s activities or products other than the new rebranded name. […]

Culturing and raising Asian sea bass (lates calcarifer) are expensive due to the limited supply and high market demand of fish meal, which is a vital protein source for this high-priced fish. Asian sea bass, known in the Philippines as “apahap,” lives in freshwater, brackish and marine habitats. It is […]

The Aquarium of the Pacific’s Seafood for the Future program and partners have been awarded $147,737 as part of the 2017 Sea Grant Aquaculture Initiative, the aquarium announced Tuesday. Led by the aquarium, the project will involve the creation of a video series, and interactive and educational web-based content as […]

Companies are racing to offer bluefin tuna raised through complete aquafarming, from eggs to mature fish, as they see a big potential in the business. Demand for Pacific bluefin tuna is strong in Japan for luxury sushi use, but the amount of the fish available to catch in the seas […]