Yearly Archives: 2018

Even though widely-consumed fish such as Nile tilapia may frequently be raised on farms, the food that they eat still contains ecologically-important fish that are caught in the ocean, depleting wild stocks. That’s why Dartmouth College scientists are now looking at replacing the fishmeal in that food with existing algae […]

Senior Minister of State for the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Education, Chee Hong Tat praised Brunei’s aquaculture industry during a visit to Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd’s Multi-purpose Marine Resources Processing and Business Centre in Serambangun, Tutong. By Azaraimy HH & James Kon Chee is currently in […]

It was a Texas-sized shrimp dream, to breed tasty crustaceans far from shore but close to transportation hubs that would speed fresh seafood to swanky restaurants as far away as New York or Las Vegas. By Lynn Brezosky But for 17 years and despite millions of dollars in trial-and-error investment, […]

A new company, BlueNalu, intends to disrupt the seafood industry with its innovative clean meat fish product. By Jemima Webber “Clean meat” involves the use of cellular agriculture to grow real animal meat in a lab, leaving the animals alive and unharmed. The field has engineered several meat products — […]

Board of Port Commissioners continues its “Blue Economy” initiative with ecological pilot program. By Parimal M. Rohit A company seeking to demonstrate the potential of seaweed aquaculture as a source of environmental sustainability and fish farming will receive $137,000 from the Port of San Diego as part of a pilot […]

Zimbabwe’s fish exports volumes declined 12 percent between February and April 2018 from the prior comparable period due to high business costs, official figures from the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) show. By Herald Commercial fish farming (aquaculture) in the country is still a small industry with only a […]

Globally, about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake comes from seafood both wild-caught and farmed. By Chris Sworder The most recent available data on global seafood production puts the total annual amount in 2015 at 138 Mt (million metric tons), of which 60% was wild-capture landings (including […]

Nigerian biotech startup Coating+ is looking to solve three problems. By Gemma Milne In Nigeria, the aquaculture industry makes up a significant portion of the nation’s industry. With over 100,000 metric tons of fish being produced annually, the industry creates both wealth for the economy and a sizeable amount of […]

Cargill has inaugurated an aquaculture innovation centre in Indonesia to work with freshwater fish farmers in raising farming and feeding standards. By Jules Scully The Technology Application Center (TAC) is located at Ciseeng, Parung-Bogor, which is a hub for freshwater aquaculture in Indonesia. Cargill said the site will bring global […]

A Singaporean investor is looking to build fish farms in the Kingdom that will be used to feed local an international demand. By May Kunmakara In what constitutes an initial step to get the project approved, Patrick Yap, managing director of Lush Food Pte Ltd., held a meeting yesterday with Minister […]