The world-class research capabilities of the Alltech Coppens Aqua Centre (ACAC) and its capacity to provide a practical platform for product development and solutions for the aquaculture industry have been recognized today with the announcement that the ACAC is to become an Alltech bioscience center. By Alltech For more than 15 years, the ACAC has carried out practical and applicable...
ProTyton™, WDL’s feed ingredient, increases post larval shrimp survival and weight gain By White Dog Labs White Dog Labs announced today that independent testing by the Center for Aquaculture Technologies in Canada (CATC) has demonstrated the potential benefit of ProTyton to shrimp farming – initial studies doubled post larval survival rate, and increased weight gain by 50%. WDL has developed and...
We need more seafood to meet demand for protein. It took over a generation to industrialize livestock processes, and the environmental and social consequences of that development are being brought into sharp focus. By Chris Sworder The aquaculture industry is much further back on that curve, with environmental concerns beginning to come to light. Whether it is ecologically damaging aquaculture...
The Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service will host a workshop about indoor shrimp farming for those interested in learning more about the relatively new industry to the United States. By Katie Pratt The workshop is Sept. 14-15 at the Kentucky State University Harold R. Benson Research and Demonstration Farm in Frankfort. “In the last five years or so, indoor shrimp farming...
Traditionally, historically, women have been responsible for feeding their families and communities, therefore it is a quite a natural leap for women to be involved in aquaculture, which gives them the opportunity to feed more families in a sustainable manner. By Samantha McLeod “According to the latest State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report, nearly 60 million people worldwide...
Even though widely-consumed fish such as Nile tilapia may frequently be raised on farms, the food that they eat still contains ecologically-important fish that are caught in the ocean, depleting wild stocks. That's why Dartmouth College scientists are now looking at replacing the fishmeal in that food with existing algae meal. By Ben Coxworth Nannochloropsis oculata is a marine microalga...
Senior Minister of State for the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Education, Chee Hong Tat praised Brunei’s aquaculture industry during a visit to Golden Corporation Sdn Bhd’s Multi-purpose Marine Resources Processing and Business Centre in Serambangun, Tutong. By Azaraimy HH & James Kon Chee is currently in the country alongside a delegation of senior Singapore government officials...
It was a Texas-sized shrimp dream, to breed tasty crustaceans far from shore but close to transportation hubs that would speed fresh seafood to swanky restaurants as far away as New York or Las Vegas. By Lynn Brezosky But for 17 years and despite millions of dollars in trial-and-error investment, Dallas-based NaturalShrimp kept encountering the same obstacles that have bedeviled...
A new company, BlueNalu, intends to disrupt the seafood industry with its innovative clean meat fish product. By Jemima Webber “Clean meat” involves the use of cellular agriculture to grow real animal meat in a lab, leaving the animals alive and unharmed. The field has engineered several meat products — predominantly chicken and beef — however, the clean seafood sector...
Board of Port Commissioners continues its “Blue Economy” initiative with ecological pilot program. By Parimal M. Rohit A company seeking to demonstrate the potential of seaweed aquaculture as a source of environmental sustainability and fish farming will receive $137,000 from the Port of San Diego as part of a pilot project under the district’s “Blue Economy” program. The Port of...
Zimbabwe’s fish exports volumes declined 12 percent between February and April 2018 from the prior comparable period due to high business costs, official figures from the Livestock and Meat Advisory Council (LMAC) show. By Herald Commercial fish farming (aquaculture) in the country is still a small industry with only a few commercial farms currently operational. There are about six commercial...
Globally, about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake comes from seafood both wild-caught and farmed. By Chris Sworder The most recent available data on global seafood production puts the total annual amount in 2015 at 138 Mt (million metric tons), of which 60% was wild-capture landings (including 20 Mt reduction fisheries) and 40% aquaculture production. Of this...
