Some days ago, took place the Samherji’s Annual General Meeting, where were presented the financial statements of the company for the year 2021. In his address at the Annual General Meeting, Thorsteinn Már Baldvinsson, the CEO of the Icelandic company, mentioned significant investment in aquaculture in the coming years, which […]
Monthly Archives: August 2022
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In the first six months of 2022, Vietnamese pangasius was exported to 136 markets, earning USD 1.4 billion in value, an increase of nearly 77% over the same period in 2021 reported the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). The average export price increased. Strength is the main […]
Nutreco recently acquired full ownership of Eruvaka, the Vijayawada, India-based software specialist, some time after purchasing a 25% stake in 2018. This acquisition will enable Skretting’s aquaculture business to offer in-house farm software and smart equipment to aquaculturists around the world, who will thus be able to increase productivity and […]
From 6 to 8 September will be held the first edition of the Global Shrimp Forum (GSF), a fully dedicated high executive meeting place for the warm water shrimp Industry, that will take place in Utrecht, Netherlands. The expectation is to gather 400-500 high level executives representing farmers, feed companies, […]
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has completed its most comprehensive consumer research to date, interviewing more than 12,000 consumers in 12 different countries about their perception and consumption of seafood. Is like that that they found out ‘number 1’ reason for buying seafood is health. In all 12 markets, health […]
Based on the question of how much food we can sustainably obtain from the sea by 2050, an analysis of the main food-producing sectors in the sea is presented: wild fisheries, finfish mariculture and bivalve mariculture. From this, encouraging curves emerge for sustainable supply, taking into account ecological, economic, regulatory, […]
The selected aerator for aquaculture operations must be economically efficient and should be able to fulfil the requirement of oxygen supply in the pond water. Here we present a study of economic feasibility of nine different types of aerators using life cycle costing (LCC) approach. The recommended option can be […]
In the first quarter of this year, FAO presented the biennial report “SOFIA 2022” with the analysis and relevant conclusions of the information collected in 2020. In this article, Aquaculture Magazine editors summarize the “key messages” the World Agency is sending with this report. In the first quarter of this […]