Editorial

Some unexpected alternatives could avoid depleting the wild fish that farmed seafood eats Written by: Leslie Nemo / ScientificAmerican.com Of the 160 million tons of seafood that end up on people’s plates each year, 50 percent comes from aquaculture. Growing all that salmon, tilapia and shrimp requires a steady supply […]

Subject to approval by authorities, BioMar acquires the 50% remaining shares in the Chilean factory APSA. Ending 10 years of successful collaboration with AquaChile, this will immediately release important capacity for BioMar in Chile. Written by: BioMar / Press release Back in 2007, when BioMar acquired Provimi Aqua, the joint […]

RAStech Conference and Trade Fair (formerly the ICRA Conference in Roanoke, VA), is a technical conference and tradeshow serving the emerging recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) sector. A land-based, low impact aquaculture process, RAS has the potential to meet the world’s growing need for protein with minimal effect on the environment. Written […]

The “Ecological Intensification: A New Paragon for Sustainable Aquaculture” international conference will be held in Bogor, Indonesia, 28th – 30th October 2019. Written by: ecoaquaconference.org Photograph: ecoaquaconference.org KKP and IRD are proud to invite you to this conference and share scientific expertise and experiences. The radical shift from traditional practices […]

The Tasmanian and Nova Scotian governments are working together to strengthen fisheries and aquaculture in both the Australian and Canadian regions. Written by: Aquaculture North America Photograph: Aquaculture North America Tasmania’s Primary Industries and Water Minister Guy Barnett and Nova Scotia’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell signed the agreement […]

A new Centre of Innovation in Aquaculture is due to be established in Singapore, the country’s finance minister announced recently. Written by: editorial / the fish site.com   Heng Swee Keat said that the government-funded center, which will be attached to Temasek Polytechnic, aims to promote high tech marine production as […]

The US farmed catfish industry has nearly everything going for it – good grain prices, fair feed prices, and a much more level playing field with imports – except it has to work through old, larger inventory in the pond. Written by: Liza Mayer / AqucultureNorthAmerica.com Illustration: freepik.com   The […]

Seafish, the public body that supports the £10bn UK seafood industry, has attracted an impressive line-up of speakers from trade, industry, and science for its first Scottish Seafood Summit: Focus on Brexit. Written by: editorial / worldfishing.net   The inaugural event, held in Aberdeen next month, will focus on the […]

Researcher Florent Govaerts has researched French newspapers over a ten-year period to examine what is being been written about Norwegian salmon. Most of the 134 articles were negative, which might have had a negative impact on its reputation. Written by: Florent Govaerts   France is one of Norway’s most important salmon […]

Mississippi State-developed vaccination technologies are being commercialized to help the catfish industry save millions for the state that leads the nation in production. Written by: Vanessa Beeson Photo credit: Kenner Patton / MSU website In 2018, 160 catfish operations across 36,000 acres statewide totaled $164 million in production value. Additionally, […]