The organization expands to welcome partner members from supply chain. A new poll has revealed that a majority of Scots who live near salmon farms support the sector. Residents said that salmon farms provide jobs for local people, help to improve the local economy, and provide a high-quality product that […]
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The members of the companies BioSort and Cermaq had reported that, for the very first time, they have tested a sorting mechanism that will sort the fish in a net pen to provide customized follow-up for the fish. The iFarm project is a collaboration between the technology company BioSort and […]
Aquaculture production has risen over the last decades, and it is expected to continue to grow which means the proportional increment amount of waste. ‘Circular economy’ has been defined as “an economic system that replaces the ‘end-of-life’ concept with reducing, alternatively reusing, recycling, and recovering materials in production, distribution and […]
The Mekong Delta of Vietnam has the greatest potential for shrimp aquaculture, an activity that plays a vital role in rural development and helps approximately one million fish farmers to achieve a sustainable livelihood. However, shrimp farms in the Mekong Delta are being affected by various diseases which seriously constrain […]
This new volume of The Shrimp Book is complementary to the first, bringing together new knowledge, new technologies, new perspectives and new ideas from 98 international authors, from both academia and industry. While Volume I was conceived from the academic experience, this new volume originates from the farming experience. There […]
The CEO of the company highlighted the completion of their first pool at Kvalnes and successful verification of the laminar water flow technology. Some days ago, the Norwegian Parliament’s (the Storting’s) Standing Committee on Business and Industry visited Andfjord Salmon at Kvalnes. “The committee is interested and engaged, and understands […]
The investor Prospero, funded by the United Kingdom, has partnered with Kalahari GeoEnergy to implement a project to develop direct applications of geothermal heat in Zambia. The first project of this partnership is the development of aquaculture farms, by setting up a geothermally heated aquaculture complex. The two partners are […]
The total global production of farmed marine shrimp increased 86% in the past 10 years, reaching more than 6.5 million tons in 2019 and a value of nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars. Much of the industry growth over the past 30 years has been achieved through horizontal expansion, that is […]
The two international shrimp genetics suppliers announce their merger to create “Blue Genetics Global” a new player tailor-made to meet the major challenges of key players in the shrimp industry around the world. Blue Genetics Mexico, a subsidiary of Groupe Grimaud (one of the world leaders in multispecies animal genetic […]
Shrimp counting is essential for farmers to estimate and manage hatching. However, counting shrimp from images is a challenging task for several reasons, including the small size of shrimp and their transparent color, which we cannot easily see. An additional challenge to shrimp counting that is not present in shrimp […]