Yearly Archives: 2018

Bill Would Help Clear Bureaucratic Hurdles, Reduce Rising Seafood Trade Deficit When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified before Congress earlier this year, he said, “I hate the idea that with all the water surrounding us and all the water inland that we have a trade deficit in fish.” Indeed, according […]

Loc Tran was on a flight home to Vietnam hours after graduating from UA in December 2013. Not that Loc was eager to leave Tucson. He just couldn’t wait to get to work. Less than five years after earning his Ph.D. in microbiology, Loc has built ShrimpVet from an unfunded […]

The largest aquaculture research project ever undertaken in Brazil has been started. BRS Aqua involves 22 research centers, 50 public partners and 11 private companies – numbers that should increase over the course of its duration. It is a milestone in investments in the theme, as a result of the […]

Though the pink salmon coming out of Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association’s hatchery at Kitoi Bay aren’t required to be marked, the managers are looking for ways to do it anyway. Sheltered from the Gulf of Alaska by the tree-lined shores of Afognak Island in the Kodiak archipelago, the remote Kitoi […]

The combined international conference and exposition is expected to draw over 2,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. The World Aquaculture Society’s (WAS) Aquaculture Conference will take place from 30 August to 2 September 2020 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. St. John’s has long been a centre of excellence in […]

The new circular pens allow the tilapia to swim continuously, which they can’t do in traditional square pens. One of the world’s most commonly farmed fish, tilapia are typically raised in square pens and get fed by hand a few times a day. New Brazilian technology that does away with […]

When Craig Watson, Director of the University of Florida IFAS Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, got his first aquarium at age 7, he couldn’t have predicted the important role that fishing and aquaculture would play in his life. “My brother and I would spend hours watching the fish, but I had no […]

Mainers treasure healthy, wild places, but as a state, we also need prosperity and good jobs for people and their families. There are two developments on the horizon that can protect our waters and native fish while making Maine a leader in sustainable aquaculture. Recently, Whole Oceans in Bucksport and […]

Last week, a leaked presentation from the acting director of NOAA hinted at some major new directions and initiatives for that agency. One of the most concrete goals: the United States should triple aquaculture production in the next decade. Oyster aquaculture has boomed in New England recently and kelp or […]

ViAqua says it has developed a feeding formulation that triggers a cell reaction that disables viral infections. An Israeli biotechnology startup ViAqua Therapeutics Ltd. says it has developed a way to reduce disease and limit losses in the raising of shrimp and some fish. According to the World Wildlife Fund, […]