AKVA Group, together with Plasto and Oceanize, is going to break the barriers to using recycled plastic in fish farms with its new entire pen that will be composed of recycled materials in a development project that has just been allocated funds from the Norwegian Retailer´s Environment Fund (Handelens Miljøfond). […]
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(Brasilia, BR) – Bill Bien, the CEO of Forever Oceans, a leading innovator in sustainable seafood, met today with Jorge Seif Junior, Secretary of Aquaculture and Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply to sign a concession agreement that puts Brazil on track to be an emerging leader in […]
In the search for new aquafeed ingredients, Aller Aqua will test green protein from BioRefine (Janderup, Denmark). The material is a protein concentrate made of grass harvested from 3.000 ha of land in Denmark. Out of this, BioRefine produces 7.000 tones of green protein concentrate applicable for animal nutrition per […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By: The fishmonger * You know what they say – ‘If you are not leading then you are following’ and that would often apply to many people and organisations in the seafood industry. Sad but true! The Fishmonger did not attend COP21 in Glasgow, besides not being invited he finds […]
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 […]
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 […]