Yearly Archives: 2019

New Zealand’s aquaculture industry is hankering for more space to grow shellfish and finfish, but it is hindered by limited access to sheltered inshore farm space. Written by: Tracy Neal for rnz.co.nz Scientists at Nelson’s Cawthron Institute are trailblazing new thinking in how farming in the open ocean might be […]

Collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts aims to accelerate success. Written by: Billion Oyster Project Press Release The Billion Oyster Project announced new work to expand the restoration of native oysters in New York waters, as part of a partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts. By combining Billion Oyster Project’s […]

Singapore-based agrifood tech company Nutrition Technologies closed a Series A funding round from a consortium of investors led by Openspace Ventures and SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore. The funding will be used to establish the largest high-tech commercial-scale insect protein production facility in Southeast Asia, which can […]

Aquaculture development requires upscaling production systems and developing new solutions for producing more to supply a growing market with healthy products. EAS wants to promote and support start-ups and emerging business models in the aquaculture sector, by matching ideas to those that can push the development of new companies and […]

At the intersection of legislation and science, a new opportunity for an ecologically and economically sustainable oyster aquaculture industry is being spawned on the Texas Gulf Coast.     Written by: Paul Schattenberg / Agrilife Today News For years, Dr. Joe Fox, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist with a joint appointment […]

ParaFishControl is a new €8.1 million EU Horizon 2020-funded research project that aims to improve our understanding of fish-parasite interactions and develop innovative solutions and tools to prevent, control and mitigate harmful parasites which affect the main fish species farmed in Europe (Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, common carp, turbot, European sea […]

Information source: WAS Press release The opening plenary sessions of AE2019 will include a view on “The Environment and Fish Health” – by Professor Charles R. Tyler of the University of Exeter, UK. Fish are excellent barometers of aquatic ecosystem health and declines in both their diversity and abundance globally […]

Australia’s leading animal nutrition producer Ridley has officially unveiled its new $50 million aquaculture feed facility at Westbury, bringing 20 new full-time jobs to the region. Written by: Rob Inglis / The Examiner News It follows an extensive search by the company for an ideal site for the plant. Ridley […]

EU-funded researchers have developed a system that helps fish farmers in Lake Victoria while also protecting the environment. Information source: European Commission / Press Release Overfishing, water shortages, and pollution – these are just some of the environmental problems Lake Victoria has been facing over the last few decades. Bordered […]

Earth Ocean Farms promotes the restocking of totoaba for the fifth year in a row. Semarnat, Conapesca, and the State of Baja California Sur, together with local communities, are committed to the preservation of this endemic species. Information source: Earth Ocean Farms / press release The fishery of totoaba, an […]