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Group Encourages Province To Adopt Norway Aquaculture Regulations
Date
February 23, 2018
The Salmon Preservation Association for the Waters of Newfoundland is encouraging the provincial goverment to adopt and enforce Norway’s Aquaculture regulations. SPAWN President John McCarthy was responding to Grieg’s proposal for an open pen salmon aquaculture development in Placentia Bay....
Island Institute readies for third year of aquaculture business program
Date
February 23, 2018
The Island Institute is now accepting applications for its 2018 Aquaculture Business Development program. In its third year, the program helps fishermen and those from fishing communities gain the tools they need to diversify and launch their small-scale aquaculture businesses....
Aquaculture project in Belfast could lift status of U.S. salmon farming, industry experts say
Date
February 21, 2018
A Norwegian company is planning a facility that would produce more than 60 million pounds of salmon a year. A Norwegian firm’s plan to build one of the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Maine has a chance to...
Soy Aquaculture Alliance elects 2018 Executive Committee
Date
February 21, 2018
Elections were held during the recent meeting of the Soy Aquaculture Alliance board of directors. Serving as chairman of SAA is John Wray of Ottawa, Kansas. Wray previously has served as both treasurer and secretary for SAA. New to the...
NIOMR to empower 50 graduates in fish production
Date
February 21, 2018
The Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research has announced plans to train and empower 50 unemployed graduates in fish production. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the training of unemployed graduates, youths and women in aquaculture production, fish processing...
MME’s Aquaculture Department aims for self-sufficiency
Date
February 21, 2018
Qatar’s Ministry of Municipality and Environment’s (MME) Aquaculture Department is planning to licence six projects to meet its fish production gap of 6,000 tonnes per year, it is learnt. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ‘French Technologies in...
Nutriad aims for a bigger pie in Indian aquaculture market
Date
February 21, 2018
Nutriad provides feed additive solutions to more than 1,200 customers in over 80 countries through a network of sales offices and distributors Nutriad Aquaculture IndiaNutriad delegation at Aqua India 2018 held in Chennai. (Image source: Nutriad) Nutriad, a Belgian company...
Aquaculture project could lift status of US salmon farming
Date
February 21, 2018
A Norwegian firm’s plan to build one of the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Maine has a chance to raise American salmon farming’s status on the international stage, people who follow the industry say. Nordic Aquafarms wants to...
A Fish Farming Social Enterprise Wants to Lead a ‘Blue Revolution’
Date
February 16, 2018
Akshay Verma grew up in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, but went on to work as an investment banker with UBS in London after getting degrees at Columbia University and Oxford University. While he enjoyed a privileged life, images...