By Aquaculture North America Staff U.S.-based biotechnology company White Dog Labs (WDL) has announced that independent testing by the Center for Aquaculture Technologies in Canada (CATC) has demonstrated the potential benefit of ProTyton, a single-cell protein (SCP), to shrimp farming. Initial studies demonstrated that inclusion of ProTyton into a CATC […]
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Aller Aqua, DTU Aqua, Teknologisk Institut (the Danish Technological Institute), Hanneman Engineering and Champost are partnering with the company Enorm to establish Denmark’s first industrial insect production. The goal of the project is to produce 30 tons of insects per day four years from now. By Aller Aqua, press release. […]
La-Paz, Mexico-based marine fish producer The Kampachi Company announced on Monday that it is closing an equity investment from asset manager Althelia Funds’ Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF). By Aquaculture North America Staff The fund is managed by Mirova Natural Capital dedicated to making pioneering impact investments that align ocean resource development and […]
The Kampachi Company may be best known for its recent efforts to grow “king kampachi”, aka kahala or almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana), in ocean-based cages, but it also is performing research with plans to make a play in the seaweed space. By Jason Huffman The Kona, Hawaii-based company has just received […]
To accommodate the growth in volumes sold, BioMar Group has decided to invest in additional capacity at its factory in Ecuador. The extrusion line creates the foundation for the development of new product ranges and is expected to be ready early 2020. By: Biomar Group, press release BioMar Group announces […]
By Phillip A Loring and Ratana Chuenpagdee / The Conversation Kwan Phayao, a large, crescent moon of a lake in Northern Thailand, is home to about 50 fish species, several hundred small-scale farmers and fishers, and the city of Phayao, where 18,000 people live. The lake has always been important to local […]
The University of Hawaiʻi and state agencies formed a partnership to raise Hawaiʻi’s global visibility in marine aquaculture and to capitalize on the commercial opportunities available worldwide. The partners are the Hawaiʻi Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC), University of Hawaiʻi, UH Ventures, LLC and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). “The establishment of a Hawaiʻi aquaculture accelerator and a related investment fund is an […]