Yearly Archives: 2017

Huon Aquaculture’s plan for a future comprising land-based and sea-cage salmon farming has moved a step closer. The Environment Protection Authority found the $30 million salmon nursery at Port Huon could be managed in an environmentally sustainable manner, with conditions. “Various environmental issues were considered by the board in its […]

Belgium headquartered multinational NUTRIAD, manufacturer of specialty feed additives for livestock and aquaculture, announced it engaged into strategic partnerships with leading universities in Brazil: Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Federal University of Goiânia (UFG) and State University of Londrina (UEL). These agreements allow the science based company to evaluate […]

Norway: Norwegian fish farmers face new curbs designed to protect the country’s stocks of wild salmon, rules that have ignited anger from the industry and its opponents, prompting threats of court challenges from both sides. As a teenager, Ola Braanaas kept a few fish in an aquarium in his bedroom. […]

Oman: An aquaculture project which is expected to add 3,000 tonnes of fish per year was launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) on Monday. The ministry announced that the first phase of fish farming project consisting of 32 floating cages in Quriyat, with a production capacity of […]

India: ICAR Director General Trilochan Mohapatra on Tuesday dedicated to the nation the indigenous Re-circulatory Aquaculture System developed at the Visakhapatnam Regional Centre of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI). Dr. Mohapatra, who was here to receive an award at the third AP Science Congress, lauded the efforts by scientists […]

Canada: Economics of land-based salmon farming not adding up for B.C. fish farmers. Some day, it might be possible to raise salmon in land-based closed containment ponds and make a profit. But that day is still a long way off, and even when it does become economically viable, land-based aquaculture […]

Australia: The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is among the recipients that will share $9.3 million in research grants from NOAA aimed at further developing the nation’s marine and coastal aquaculture industry. “This country, with its abundant coastline, should not have to import billions of pounds of seafood each year,” said […]

For many Chinese people, Africa is not only far away, but also strange and wild. He Wang, however, has spent most of the past decade living on the continent. She has just left her 92-year-old mother for the eighth time to visit Africa, where she stays for more than 10 […]

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM) Professor Daniel Benetti has been awarded $967,000 by Florida Sea Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The funding is just a portion of $9.3 million NOAA has slated for 32 projects around the country to help […]

Biotechnology in the fish farming industry hit the headlines in 2017 when a fast-growing salmon became the first GM animal to reach the market. In Europe, however, new developments in biotech’s potential for aquaculture went largely un-reported. Rather than focusing on the fish, British scientists are making progress towards creating […]