For many Chinese people, Africa is not only far away, but also strange and wild. He Wang, however, has spent most of the past decade living on the continent. She has just left her 92-year-old mother for the eighth time to visit Africa, where she stays for more than 10 months at a time. While He was busy packing at...
University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM) Professor Daniel Benetti has been awarded $967,000 by Florida Sea Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The funding is just a portion of $9.3 million NOAA has slated for 32 projects around the country to help spur the development and growth of shellfish, finfish and seaweed...
Biotechnology in the fish farming industry hit the headlines in 2017 when a fast-growing salmon became the first GM animal to reach the market. In Europe, however, new developments in biotech’s potential for aquaculture went largely un-reported. Rather than focusing on the fish, British scientists are making progress towards creating fish food from a transgenic plant. For almost two decades,...
A planned salmon farm will not go ahead off the coast of Southland. A study that showed lower-than-expected water currents off Port Pegasus in Southland has led to the shelving of a planned salmon farm. The site, bounded by Stewart Island, was given extensive government funding after being identified by the Southland Regional Development Strategy as a prime spot for...
Preliminary harvest and value figures for the 2017 commercial salmon fishery indicate the season was a step up above the previous year's disastrous harvest. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported a 66.7-percent increase in exvessel value between the two years, with 224.6 million wild salmon worth around $678.8 million brought in by the state's fishing fleet. Chum salmon...
MOU with CibusDx to Co-Develop Rapid Disease Detection Device Second Public, Private, Academic Collaboration Sino Agro Food, Inc. (OTCQX: SIAF | OSE: SIAF-ME), a specialized investment company focused on protein food including seafood and cattle, is pleased to announce entry into two partnerships that advance its technical leadership in aquaculture. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CibusDx In September of 2017,...
Imagine eating bluefin sushi without killing a fish. The startup Finless Foods is developing the technology to do just that, but it probably won’t mean that the coveted, overfished species is off the hook. BLUEFIN TUNA IS a sushi delicacy regularly sold for hundreds of dollars a pound or more. It’s also a fish that has been ravaged by overfishing....
Two new grants total over $650,000... Two new grants to the Woods Hole Sea Grant program totaling more than $650,000 will support research aimed at expanding aquaculture production in Massachusetts. The projects won funding as part of a national strategic investment in aquaculture by the NOAA Sea Grant Program. “The United States is one of the world’s leading seafood consumers,...
Scientists are set to research the application of transformational tech for the aquaculture industry, following funding approval for the two-year Precision Farming Technology for Aquaculture project. The project announced today focuses on developing technologies that give farmers the ability to manage their farm and stock remotely. Cawthron Institute Coastal and Freshwater Group Manager, Dr Chris Cornelisen will lead the project...
This article first appeared in Personal Wealth, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on October 23, 2017 - October 29, 2017. Dutch entrepreneur Mike Velings has observed the decline of the marine ecosystem in many oceans around the world in his 20 years of recreational scuba diving. His resolve to prevent further destruction hardened during a National Geographic expedition in 2009 after...
Aim is to develop advance-warning system that will let a hatchery know when dangerous bacteria are blooming. The water condition in salmon hatcheries can provide a great deal of information as to when and why outbreaks of disease occur. Now, SINTEF researchers are about to expose the water’s secrets, both to prevent suffering in fish and to save the aquaculture...
Multiple bluefin farms in Japan are set to drastically increase shipments of closed-cycle tuna, for which the entire cycle of reproduction is carried out in the captive state. Nagoya-based trading company Toyota Tsusho Corp. has had a technical tie-up since 2010 with Kinki University – the first to succeed in closed-cycle bluefin breeding – and now operates two tuna farms,...
