By Matt Craze AquaGen CEO Odd Magne Rodseth said the reduction in costs for professional breeding tools is making it viable to introduce genetic selection tools to the tilapia industry. The Norwegian company is developing breeding programs at a site in Brazil, and also Southeast Asia, to supply farmers with tilapia eggs. This requires building distribution centers to supply new markets...
By Aquaculture North America Staff U.S.-based biotechnology company White Dog Labs (WDL) has announced that independent testing by the Center for Aquaculture Technologies in Canada (CATC) has demonstrated the potential benefit of ProTyton, a single-cell protein (SCP), to shrimp farming. Initial studies demonstrated that inclusion of ProTyton into a CATC reference diet reduces mortality of whiteleg shrimp compared to a...
Aller Aqua, DTU Aqua, Teknologisk Institut (the Danish Technological Institute), Hanneman Engineering and Champost are partnering with the company Enorm to establish Denmark’s first industrial insect production. The goal of the project is to produce 30 tons of insects per day four years from now. By Aller Aqua, press release. The project has been granted 15.9 million DKK from...
La-Paz, Mexico-based marine fish producer The Kampachi Company announced on Monday that it is closing an equity investment from asset manager Althelia Funds’ Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF). By Aquaculture North America Staff The fund is managed by Mirova Natural Capital dedicated to making pioneering impact investments that align ocean resource development and conservation goals. The SOF’s $5-million investment in The Kampachi Company’s...
The Kampachi Company may be best known for its recent efforts to grow “king kampachi”, aka kahala or almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana), in ocean-based cages, but it also is performing research with plans to make a play in the seaweed space. By Jason Huffman The Kona, Hawaii-based company has just received a $3.3 million grant from the US Department of Energy...
To accommodate the growth in volumes sold, BioMar Group has decided to invest in additional capacity at its factory in Ecuador. The extrusion line creates the foundation for the development of new product ranges and is expected to be ready early 2020. By: Biomar Group, press release BioMar Group announces further investments in the factory in Ecuador. A new extrusion...
By Phillip A Loring and Ratana Chuenpagdee / The Conversation Kwan Phayao, a large, crescent moon of a lake in Northern Thailand, is home to about 50 fish species, several hundred small-scale farmers and fishers, and the city of Phayao, where 18,000 people live. The lake has always been important to local people for fishing, but today, the lake’s fisheries are at...
The University of Hawaiʻi and state agencies formed a partnership to raise Hawaiʻi’s global visibility in marine aquaculture and to capitalize on the commercial opportunities available worldwide. The partners are the Hawaiʻi Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC), University of Hawaiʻi, UH Ventures, LLC and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). “The establishment of a Hawaiʻi aquaculture accelerator and a related investment fund is an effort to demonstrate the state’s commitment to developing Hawaiʻi’s commercial aquaculture...
Photo: fish farming in Nova Scotia Models that suggest the carrying capacity of aquaculture in both marine cages and inland ponds have been developed as part of a new project. By The Fish Site The members of the MIMECCA project, which aims reduce the aquaculture sector’s impact on the environment and improve its social acceptability, presented their results in Madrid...
The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) has unveiled its National Youth Council, to showcase the growing presence of young people in the sustainable future of farming the oceans. By SeaWestNews The Council members convened their first face-to-face meeting at Canada’s Farmed Seafood Policy Conference 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario today. “Seafood farming is a young and growing sector for Canada. We...
Nineteen postgraduates presented their marine research highlighting the innovation and contributions being made towards the growth of the marine sector in Ireland at the Cullen Fellowship Programme’s two-day annual meeting last week. By Afloat.ie Dr Peter Heffernan, chief executive of the Marine Institute which hosted the meeting in Oranmore, had particular praise for Philip Stephens of NUI Galway and James...
This is part of "Ocean Shock," a Reuters series exploring climate change's impact on sea creatures and the people who depend on them. By Reuters/ voanews Norway has built the world's biggest salmon-farming industry. But it wants to go bigger. With their lucrative oil fields now in decline, Norwegians have ambitious plans for aquaculture to power their economy far into the...
