Aquaculture Magazine reports: The United States (US) is releasing an updated National Aquaculture Development Plan for the first time since 1983. The National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Aquaculture finalized the draft Overview of the National Aquaculture Development Plan, which was released earlier this year for public comment. It includes three strategic plans. The new Plan aims to strength...
Aquaculture Magazine reports: The Embassy of the Netherlands in Vietnam held a few days ago in Can Tho, a Vietnamese city in the Mekong Delta, a business forum focused on finding ways for sustainable aquaculture in the region. The event was held in collaboration with the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). Nguyen Van Huu, representative of MARD's...
Aquaculture Magazine reports: The global leader in sustainable aquaculture, Regal Springs, in celebration of World Fisheries Day, presented its agenda to fast-track sustainability through two landmark international events that gathered over 400 industry experts and decision-makers from around the globe. The events were the ‘Indonesian Tilapia Blue Food’ discussion forum, held in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the first ‘Honduran Aquaculture Congress’,...
By Ace Aquatec Sea Farms, a shrimp farm based in Thailand has become the first to install Ace Aquatec’s innovative stunning system through a partnership with the Shrimp Welfare Project. This collaboration is part of an ongoing programme aimed at enhancing access to humane stunning solutions for shrimp producers globally. Ace Aquatec’s new A-HSU® for Shrimp is a small, self-...
By FAI The FAI Tilapia Welfare App and Tilapia Welfare e-learning courses on FAI Academy are now available in Arabic to support the continuing growth and success of the aquaculture sector in Egypt and other Arabic-speaking nations. While most tilapia production occurs in non-English speaking countries, the majority of resources for assessing tilapia welfare are in English. To address this...
By World Aquaculture Society The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) is excited to announce that World Aquaculture 2025 (WA2025), one of the leading global events for the aquaculture industry, will take place in Qingdao, China, from April 24-27, 2025, at the Qingdao International Convention Centre. This marks the second time the event has been hosted in China, following the successful World...
By World Aquaculture Society - African Chapter- and AFRAQ24 Organizing Committee The third Aquaculture Africa Conference (AFRAQ24) took place on 19-22 November 2024 at the majestic Medina Mediterranean Congress Centre in the coastal city of Hammamet, Tunisia. Themed “Blue Farming: New Horizons for Economic Growth”, the event underscored how partnerships in science, education and technological advancement can help drive innovations...
The Norway-based company, ranked Number 1 animal protein producer for the 6th year in a row Innovasea, a global leader in technologically advanced aquatic solutions for aquaculture and fish tracking, announced a few days ago a renewed global framework agreement with Mowi, the world’s largest salmon farmer that recently achieved to be ranked number one animal protein producer for the...
The Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company ADQ has signed an agreement with Finnforel, the leading aquaculture technology company headquartered in Finland, under which it will explore the feasibility of a land-based fish farming facility with a capacity of 3,000 tons per year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The potential facility will be strategically located within Khalifa Economic Zones...
Aquaculture Magazine reports: Novo Holdings recently announced that it has agreed to acquire the Norwegian fish genetics company Benchmark Genetics from Benchmark Holdings for an enterprise value of up to USD 329.36 million. The transaction is aligned with the Novo Holdings Planetary Health Investment team’s strategic focus on aquaculture technology to drive growth, innovation, and sustainability, complementing the recent investment...
Aquaculture Magazine reports: The vessel will hold 1,100 tons of feed and have 24 lines, allowing the simultaneous feeding of 24 pens Faroese’s companies GroAqua and Bakkafrost have signed a few days ago an agreement to build the world’s largest feed barge in terms of feed storage capacity and the number of feed lines. The feed barge, expected to be...
Aquaculture Magazine reports: Thai Union Group announced a few days ago “Strategy 2030”, its ambitious roadmap to achieve significant growth, as they say. This includes boosting net sales growth to USD 7.0 billion by 2030 from USD 3.9 billion in 2024, and increasing earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) by 100 percent from approximately USD 400 million to...
