Since the approval of the Mekong Delta Sustainable Aquaculture Development Project by Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development last August, a series of initiatives have been launched through which the area will seek to exceed 990,000 hectares of aquaculture area by 2030. The intention is to reach a production of more than 4,800,000 tons. In that sense, the Ministry...
Representatives Steven Palazzo (R-MS) and Ed Case (D-HI) introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to support the development of an offshore aquaculture industry in the American country. The bipartisan bill, the Advancing the Quality and Understanding of American Aquaculture (AQUAA) Act, which was introduced in the U.S. Senate in October of the last year, would increase production of...
The Moroccan Agence Nationale pour le Développement de l’Aquaculture (National Agency for the Development of Aquaculture, ANDA) held its Board of Directors meeting chaired by Mohamed Sadiki, Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fishing, Rural Development and Water and Forests. Among other successes, they noted that 259 agreements for the creation and operation of aquaculture farms have been made. Among these projects...
The aquaculture company SalMar Aker Ocean has appointed Roy Reite to be its new CEO. The establishment of SalMar Aker Ocean AS was formalised in mid-November 2021. By 2030, the aim of their owners for SalMar Aker Ocean to be sustainably producing 150,000 tonnes of salmon per year at fish farms located in the open ocean. The company’s co-owners are...
US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Zema Semunegus and New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission of the New Zealand Embassy, Olivia Philpott, met some days ago with fish farmers in Bobonaro city, at Timor-Leste, and visited the MoreDoc Unipessoal Lda public-private-partnership (PPP) tilapia hatchery in Leohitu to study its success and advance plans to scale aquaculture across the...
The international research and innovation institution WorldFish began a partnership with KYTOS, a technology start-up company developing management solutions at the frontier of technological innovation, to conduct research and development (R&D) in the field of aquaculture microbiome, particularly for carp polyculture and tilapia farming systems. Cutting-edge high-throughput tools are providing the aquaculture sector with biological insights offering new opportunities to...
The directors of AquaFarm, International Conference & Trade Show on Aquaculture, Seaweed and Fishing Industry, whose fifth edition will be held on February 16 and 17 in the Italian city of Pordenone, announced that it is proud to support the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA 2022). The business meeting will feature a conference program, which will...
Off the small island of Munkholmen, outside the city Trondheim in Norway, is already installed the first of two observation buoys to collect data from the fjord, as a part of the new OceanLab that will contribute to research on aquaculture, underwater robotics, autonomous shipping and environmental research. OceanLab is a new and state-of-the-art national research infrastructure that is a...
Martín Cordero Ordóñez is the new General Manager of the joint venture GenoMar Genetics Colombia SA. Since last November, the Industrial Engineer with long experience in the production of tilapia has been working in the company with the responsibility for the operations from production to sales of genetically improved tilapia fingerlings in Colombia, under the brand GenoMar. “I am looking...
Grobest China has reported that it is planning to establish a new aquaculture feed factory in the new Guangdong Leizhou Industrial Development Zone. The aim of the new facility is to provide functional feed to aquaculture farmers in and around Zhanjiang, the company said. The initiative is designed to be sustainable and long-term. The project is being implemented in phases...
"Within the framework of the ProSeaweed project, financed by the Dutch Ministry ofAgriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Wageningen University has analyzed the feasibility of using the Royal Kombu seaweed, native to the North Sea, for the production of hamburgers and salt replacement, in addition to analyzing its potential for reducing the environmental impact of the food industry." ProSeaweed is currently...
AquaConnect, India's trusted aquaculture platform, participated in InFinity, the financial technology and global thought leadership event from the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) a few days ago. The Indian Company showcased technology there that provides end-to-end solutions to shrimp and fish farmers with AI and satellite remote sensing technologies. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi inaugurated via virtual...
