The F3 Krill Replacement Challenge is to spark innovation for a more sustainable substitute for krill. The contest will incorporate each competitor’s krill replacements into a plant-based feed that will be fed to Atlantic salmon for 12 weeks. The krill replacement that results in the best growth, feed consumption and […]
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The American company Atlantic Sea Farms has announced that the 27 partner farmers, representing nine working Maine harbors, have harvested more line grown domestic kelp than ever at just under 1 million pounds during the 2022 harvest season. “We’re thrilled and proud”, they said. For them, this number is revolutionary […]
Significant growth in aquaculture has driven global fisheries and aquaculture production to a record high as aquatic foods make an increasingly critical contribution to food security and nutrition in the 21st century, according to a report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a few days ago. The […]
According to data of the country Customs, in the first five months of this year, the Vietnam’s shrimp exports to Japan reached USD 265 million, up 15% over the same period last year. In the first five months of 2022, shrimp exports to this market increased by 6-23%. Shrimp exports […]
The export value of Norwegian seafood has never been higher in the first half of the year than in 2022, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC). In the first six months of the year, Norway exported seafood worth NOK 70.1 billion (near USD 7 billion). This is a value […]
The Chilean company Astilleros y Servicios Navales – ASENAV reported that it has been awarded a contract for the construction of a fishing and oceanographic research vessel for the Chilean Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture. The contract has a value of approximately USD 15 million and will be built at […]
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Republic of Philippines has granted the world´s first Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) certification to a tilapia producer. The facility subject to certification is the GenoMar’s nucleus and grandparent site located at the Central Luzon State University in the Philippines where […]
A new generation of fish feed is one of five ideas born in the laboratories of the University of Porto that will continue to grow over the coming months with the help of the Business Ignition Programme (BIP) PROOF, the program of the University of Porto, in Portugal, which aims […]
Blue Ocean Technology has signed a contract for the delivery of a Plug & Farm containerized sludge and water treatment facility to Purecod, the world’s first cod farming using closed pens at sea. The facility will be delivered and installed in Røneset, Storfjorden, Norway, where Purecod will start farming operations […]
Cermaq Canada is the first company to unlock the full power of the new forecasting tools in the SaaS platform SeaState, has announced Scoot Science, the forerunner in ocean analytics. SeaState is the world’s first ocean intelligence platform for aquaculture, and now is running across 26 Cermaq salmon farming sites […]