The National Inland Fisheries Technology Center (NIFTC) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) is strengthening its advocacy for the revitalization of indigenous freshwater species to increase local production in the fisheries sector through aquaculture. As a result of holistic, innovative and data-driven research and development, the Bureau has established different rearing techniques for...
In a world’s first Rare Earth Global, a UK producer of hemp crops is taking its first steps into the aquaculture sector that could see the alternative plant-based protein source used as a key ingredient for Atlantic salmon feeds. The company, growers of industrial hemp for a range of sustainable products, has received GBP 50,000 funding from the UK Seafood...
The Shrimpbox, created by the privately held corporation Atarraya, is described as an intelligent, automated shrimp farm that is disconnected from the oceans, and located close to the consumer. Atarraya has raised a USD 3.9 million Series A round led by Jeffrey Horing and other angel investors, including Mark Gormley, Geoffry Kalish, Robert Stavis, and Robert Goodman. With this round,...
Scientists of the Norwegian company Nofima have developed a health test for smolt that can provide information that fish farmers will benefit from when transferring salmon to the sea. The results can help increase the smolts’ chances of survival. Every year, approximately 15% of farmed salmon die after being transferred from land-based freshwater tanks to net-pens at sea. Most of...
This week, thousands of seafood professionals from around the world and across Asia have reconnected in-person at the 10th edition of Seafood Expo Asia, the Seafood Marketplace for Asia. The event, organized by Diversified Communications, started on 14 September and took place until 16 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre in Singapore. During the three-day expo, 209 exhibiting companies...
The Israelis companies Kibbutz Yotvata and Brevel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build the ‘largest microalgae fermentation reactors of their kind’. The facility will be home to the largest fermentation reactors of their kind, said the companies, with the capacity to produce 900,000 liters per year, and 3,000 tons of dry product per year, when fully operational...
The annual General Assembly (GA) of the European Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC) took a few days ago and at this occasion, its members chose Brian Thomsen as Chair for the next three years to come. Thomsen has represented the Danish Aquaculture Organization in the AAC since the creation of this European Union (UE) consultative body on aquaculture matters. Since 2017,...
UAE-based Dibba Bay Oysters has achieved Friend of the Sea aquaculture certification, becoming the only certified aquaculture farm in the region. “Our sustainable policies, waste management standards and social responsibilities have earned us the Friend of the Sea Sustainable Aquaculture certification,” they announced. “The Friend of the Sea certification covers our sustainable oyster aquaculture, which encompasses the Crassostrea Gigas species....
SalMar and Bluegreen have signed a contract to take over the development permits and build in Norway the first Marine Donut, an idea that came in 2015 but is materializing now. This doughnut-shaped fish farm will become the world's largest construction in thermoplastics. In the site of Bluegreen in Telemark, Norway, the construction of Marine Donut is already in full...
Ridley, Australia’s largest commercial provider of high-performance animal nutrition and Australian Prawn Farms, Ilbilbie, Queensland, made a commercial-scale trial showing a new diet with lower levels of protein can produce the same sized prawns with less impact on the environment, achieving its advance in sustainable production. In the trial, prawns were fed the novel diet called Propel Grower which has...
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh formally launched some days ago FoodTechBangladesh, a four-year cooperation between Dutch and Bangladeshi companies. The partnership is headed by Larive International, and jointly the partners will invest EUR 6 million in developing sustainable growth of the Bangladeshi aquaculture sector. The partnership consists of Aftab Bahumukhi Farms, Gemini Sea Food, Nutreco,...
Some of the leading industry experts Förde Garnelen, Aquafeed Germany, Protix, Neomar and Crusta Nova have joined forces to launch a new shrimp feed: SHR EX. The feed has been exclusively designed for the needs of European land-based shrimp farms as they increasingly move towards greater sustainability. SHR EX replaces marine proteins with locally produced insect protein from a circular...
