By Antonio Garza de Yta, Ph.D. President, World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Aquaculture is as diverse as are the regions of the world and regardless of size or location, the industry everywhere shares similar needs and faces similar challenges that will only be mitigated by us all working together. Aquaculture is […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
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– The event “Meet the Scientific Committee-ISGA XIV” will take place next Monday, May 30th. – The application process for students’ fellowships will be also announced A virtual event to meet the Scientific Committee of the XIV International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture, ISGA 2022, will be held next Monday, […]
The global company Cermaq, with farming operations in Norway, Canada and Chile, has reported about its good fish health and environmental performance in 2021. Survival rate for Atlantic salmon last year was 95%, with variances between areas and showing the potential for further improvement. “We did not reach our goal […]
Skretting Turkey, Metro Turkey and Hatko Aquaculture companies have teamed up to jointly develop the value-chain project ‘The Feed of Today is The Food of Tomorrow’. The resulting premium fish products -basically sea bream and sea bass- already have improved sustainability credentials, better growing conditions and health benefits for consumers. […]
Scottish Sea Farms has been awarded with the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its Summer Isles farms, the first time the company has achieved the coveted accreditation. Considered one of the most demanding of all global seafood certification schemes, the target is to have up to five farms and […]
Collaborative research between Benchmark Genetics and the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit (AAHRU) in Auburn, Alabama, has been awarded the USDA-ARS Southeast Area Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. The award recognized the pioneering work on selection for improved disease resistance in Nile tilapia. This pioneering […]
By: Alejandro Godoy * Love the Wild a startup of the Seafood sector was introduced in 2014, in the United States; it had among its investors the activist Leonardo DiCaprio. This editorial takes the form of a case-study exposing the trajectory of this brand while making an analysis of its […]
The new edition of the HavExpo International Fair was held in the port city of Bergen, Norway, from May 10 to 12. The city, considered the local capital of aquaculture, received more than 330 domestic and foreign exhibitors and 15,000 attendees, who were able to learn about the latest news […]
Qatar Airways Cargo has reported that 95% of the so-called PES (perishable seafood) traveling on board it’s from Scandinavia, especially from Norway, is salmon. In 2021, it transported a shocking 1.3 million tons of salmon, worth EUR 8.57 billion. To achieve this, the aviation company operates six B777 cargo services […]
By: Iván Ramírez Morales, Ph. D. Leader of R + D + i in Larvia@larvia_ai @ivaneduramirez Up to a few years ago, if we wanted a computer to do something new, we had to program it. That meant coding, step by step, what we wanted the computer to do. Arthur […]