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Cargill will create a joint venture to increase production capacity in Ecuador’s shrimp feed market
Date
November 4, 2022
The international company Cargill and Naturisa, its partner in Ecuador, have reached an agreement with Skyvest EC Holding to create a new joint venture that will serve Ecuadorian shrimp farmers’ increasing demand for high-quality shrimp feed. Through this union, Cargill...
New Zealand’s Mount Cook Alpine Salmon to build the country’s first land-based salmon farm
Date
November 4, 2022
The New Zealand company Mount Cook Alpine Salmon will be the first in its country to build a land-based salmon farm. The project has just been launched in Twizel (Canterbury), in the presence of the chairman of the board of...
New study reveal krill improves larvae seabream survival
Date
October 28, 2022
According to a new study, by supplementing with 7% of krill phospholipids in a seabream diet, larvae exhibited enhanced growth and survival, along with significantly less lipid (or fat) deposits in the intestine and liver, as compared to fish consuming...
Seminar series broadcast health risks associated with nanoparticles in Atlantic aquaculture
Date
October 28, 2022
Last October 24 started a series of seminars that broadcasted findings from a world-leading academic study assessing potential health risks associated with nanoparticles found within the Atlantic aquaculture industry. The ground-breaking NanoCulture Project has been funded by the Interreg Atlantic...
AKVA group signs contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon to build a smolt facility featuring the “Zero Water Concept” technology
Date
October 21, 2022
AKVA Group has signed a contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon (ILFS) by which a smolt facility will be built in Vestmannaeyjar, in a project that is starting up in this October 2022. The company reported that is delivering a...
GenoMar Genetics Group appoints Rodrigo Zanolo as its new commercial director
Date
October 21, 2022
GenoMar Genetics Group, the world’s leading tilapia breeding company, announced a few days ago the appointment of Rodrigo Zanolo as its new commercial director. Based in Brazil, he will assume responsibility for the group's commercial activities in Latin America and...
Ecuadorian shrimp return to Conxemar, the International Seafood Fair of Galicia, in Spain
Date
October 15, 2022
The twenty-third edition of the Conxemar 2022 International Frozen Seafood Fair, held every year in the Galician city of Vigo, has seen the participation of an entrepreneurial delegation coordinated by the National Chamber of Aquaculture of Ecuador (CNA). The Ecuadorian...
The third edition of the Latin American Summit for Fisheries and Aquaculture Sustainability will be held in Chile with the organization of Comepesca and Sonapesca
Date
October 14, 2022
The third edition of the Latin American Summit for Fisheries and Aquaculture Sustainability was held in the city of Puerto Varas, Los Lagos region, Chile, from October 12 to 14, with the slogan “One mission, one region: Fishing with a...
Dutch Royal Van Beest Group acquires Spanish company Sling Supply International, engaged in the design, manufacture and certification of lifting solutions
Date
October 14, 2022
Dutch-based Royal Van Beest Group has reported its acquisition of Spain-based Sling Supply International (Slingsintt), a company dedicated to the design, manufacture, testing and certification of lifting solutions in a wide range of industries. This acquisition, the group explained, makes...