Yearly Archives: 2018

The Island Institute is now accepting applications for its 2018 Aquaculture Business Development program. In its third year, the program helps fishermen and those from fishing communities gain the tools they need to diversify and launch their small-scale aquaculture businesses. The nonprofit wants to work with coastal and island residents […]

A Norwegian company is planning a facility that would produce more than 60 million pounds of salmon a year. A Norwegian firm’s plan to build one of the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Maine has a chance to raise American salmon farming’s status on the international stage, people […]

Elections were held during the recent meeting of the Soy Aquaculture Alliance board of directors. Serving as chairman of SAA is John Wray of Ottawa, Kansas. Wray previously has served as both treasurer and secretary for SAA. New to the Executive Committee and serving as vice chair for SAA is […]

The Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research has announced plans to train and empower 50 unemployed graduates in fish production. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the training of unemployed graduates, youths and women in aquaculture production, fish processing and value addition, in Lagos, the Executive Director, NIOMR, Dr. […]

Qatar’s Ministry of Municipality and Environment’s (MME) Aquaculture Department is planning to licence six projects to meet its fish production gap of 6,000 tonnes per year, it is learnt. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ‘French Technologies in Agriculture’ seminar in Doha on Tuesday, MME’s Aquaculture Department head […]

Nutriad provides feed additive solutions to more than 1,200 customers in over 80 countries through a network of sales offices and distributors Nutriad Aquaculture IndiaNutriad delegation at Aqua India 2018 held in Chennai. (Image source: Nutriad) Nutriad, a Belgian company specialising in species specific additive solutions for fish and shrimp, […]

A Norwegian firm’s plan to build one of the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Maine has a chance to raise American salmon farming’s status on the international stage, people who follow the industry say. Nordic Aquafarms wants to build a facility that would produce more than 60 million […]

Akshay Verma grew up in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, but went on to work as an investment banker with UBS in London after getting degrees at Columbia University and Oxford University. While he enjoyed a privileged life, images of poverty in Bihar continued to haunt him. In 2013, […]

Nathan Katzer had a keen interest in fish from a young age, filling his room with as many fish tanks as his mother would allow. Despite this early fascination with aquatic animals and later becoming a certified scuba diver, little in the Iowa native’s career path indicated what he would […]

Nebraska Soybean Board members and staff saw firsthand how soy grown in Nebraska contributes to seafood production worldwide at the United States Soybean Export Council’s Aquaculture Education Opportunity in Campeche, Mexico. It was Nebraska Soybean Board Chairman Tony Johanson’s third time attending the Aquaculture Education Opportunity. “The trip is meant […]