The owners of the country’s largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school’s oceanfront campus. Springtide Seaweed’s Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera, who operate a 35-acre aquaculture lease in Frenchman Bay and several other sites along the Maine coast, will use the new saltwater...
Seafarms has achieved a key regulatory approval required to deliver the mammoth Project Sea Dragon, obtaining the aquaculture licence for the Legune Station operation. Project Sea Dragon is a $1.45 billion prawn aquaculture project that will see the development of up to 10,000 hectares of land for black tiger prawn production facilities. It is the largest of its kind in...
The fifth national training programme on ‘Installation and Operation of Freshwater Aquaculture Production (FRP) Carp Hatchery’ was inaugurated at ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here Tuesday. RK Singh, project coordinator, ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering and Technology (AICRP-PET) and director, ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana, inaugurated the event. Singh said the AICRP-PET...
The gross value of fisheries output totalled some RM 14 billion last year, with the highest attributed through fish catch, and the remaining shared by aquaculture and land fisheries industries respectively. The fish catch output value recorded at RM11 billion, while RM2.9 billion through aquaculture and the land fisheries (fresh water breeding etc) RM0.1 billion. The Ministry of Agriculture and...
Eco-shrimp farming, which has been spreading in the Mekong Delta localities in recent years, is touted as a model for sustainable aquaculture development thanks to its strengths in environmental protection, low costs, and high profit. Eco farming refers to the practice of raising shrimps in rice fields or mangrove forests at low density. Compared to industrial shrimp cultivation, farmers do...
The owners of the country's largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school's campus. Springtide Seaweed's Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera, who operate a 35-acre aquaculture lease in Frenchman Bay and several other sites along the Maine coast, will use the...
Shrimp farming is one of the biggest industries in Vietnam, and the government is pushing to expand it, having announced plans last year to boost exports from $3 billion in 2016 to $10 billion by 2025. Shrimp farmer Nguyen Manh Hung lost his entire farm to erosion in 2016 after a series of ravaging droughts and floods. He and his...
Nathan Egnew, a graduate student of aquaculture/fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, is researching the physiological response of largemouth bass to ammonia. His research could help fish farmers raise and transport the fish to market more efficiently, he says. By Will Hehemann Special to The Commercial “As commercially-sold fish grow and eat in ponds, they release waste...
Major fish importers in the country have heeded the Federal Government’s directive to engage in backward integration of fishing through commercial aquaculture and production of fish for export, the Deputy Director of Fisheries, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Pwaspo Emmanuel, has said. He spoke on Thursday on behalf of the Director of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the...
Bill Would Help Clear Bureaucratic Hurdles, Reduce Rising Seafood Trade Deficit When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified before Congress earlier this year, he said, “I hate the idea that with all the water surrounding us and all the water inland that we have a trade deficit in fish.” Indeed, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data, our seafood...
Loc Tran was on a flight home to Vietnam hours after graduating from UA in December 2013. Not that Loc was eager to leave Tucson. He just couldn’t wait to get to work. Less than five years after earning his Ph.D. in microbiology, Loc has built ShrimpVet from an unfunded one-person operation into the first private and self-sustained shrimp research...
The largest aquaculture research project ever undertaken in Brazil has been started. BRS Aqua involves 22 research centers, 50 public partners and 11 private companies - numbers that should increase over the course of its duration. It is a milestone in investments in the theme, as a result of the partnership between Embrapa, National Bank for Economic and Social Development...
