Yearly Archives: 2018

More than two years ago, Đặng Thanh Tân, a farmer in Bình Minh Town, northern Ninh Bình Province decided to switch from breeding shrimp in traditional ponds to high-tech farming. Over the course of the same breeding period, the new technique brings about higher shrimp productivity and quality than the […]

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has targeted to earn US$2 billion from catfish exports this year, accounting for 31.5 per cent of the fishery industry’s total export value. This projection was stated by Nguyen Ngoc Oai, Acting General Director of the Directorate of Fisheries, at a conference to […]

Principal fisheries officer Shailendra Singh told members of the visiting Agricultural Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) delegation that the Fijian Government has placed a lot of emphasis on aquaculture. “You might ask why because Fiji is so blessed with so much natural resources; we’ve got the third largest reef […]

The commercial farming of fish or shellfish – is not a term that’s in everyday use in Scotland, but it is a sector with an economic value approaching £2 billion. The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) in Stirling has ambitions to grow that further in terms of production, exports, revenue […]

Championing sustainable farming practice, U.S.-based Aquabanq, Inc. is accelerating its plans for the land-based salmon production facility in the U.S. by at least 12 months. Current plans include the construction of an industrial-scale RAS-based plant capable of producing 10m pounds (5,000 metric tons) of head-on/gutted Atlantic salmon by 2022. Five […]

Company aims to grow stripers eight miles offshore Twenty percent of the protein consumed in the United States is from seafood, “and according to the United Nations, the U.S. will need to double its aquaculture production just to maintain its current level of consumption by 2030,” said Donna Lanzetta of […]

Fish farm opponents and proponents alike are waiting with bated breath as a bill to phase out open net pen aquaculture farms in Washington State sits on Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for final approval. If Governor Inslee signs the bill, it would mean the end of farmed Atlantic salmon reared […]

At the 2018 Aquaculture America Conference in Las Vegas, Veolia aquaculture expert, Frédéric Gaumet, Ph. D., presented common production challenges land-based aquaculture companies will face as it prepares to meet the exponentially increasing global salmon demand. Gaumet’s presentation, “Challenges and Potential of Large Industrial Land- Based Plants for Post Smolts […]

James Wright of the Global Aquaculture Alliance explains how the aquaculture industry is beginning to address the fishmeal feed bottleneck with microalgae, insects and single-cell organisms. Expected to reach nearly 10 billion people by mid-century, the growing global population requires efficient means of protein production. Consumer demand for animal protein […]

The preliminary report on the hike in the anti-dumping duty on shrimps from India to the US has triggered a scare among the seafood export community in the country as they await record harvest shrimp harvest of 6 lakh tonnes in the farms this year. But it is pointed out […]