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 […]
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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 […]
Cargill to buy feed maker in high-margin natural foods pushCargill Inc [CARG.UL] is buying a maker of natural animal feeds, the global commodities trader said on Tuesday, another in a string of deals to capitalize on rising demand for higher-margin natural foods and antibiotic-free meat and dairy products. The recent […]
Hendrix Genetics has completed a deal with Integrated Aquaculture International LLC (iAqua) to participate in the breeding and production of shrimp for the global industry. IAI is an aquaculture technology company on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Its breeding centre produces genetically-improved Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) broodstock under the […]
When Jenn Fortier was in sixth grade, she read a book about a scientist named Eugenie Clark. Nicknamed “The Shark Lady,” Clark was a giant in the field of shark study, and a pioneer in the use of SCUBA diving for research purposes. Fortier was hooked, and she immediately told […]
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 […]
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 […]