Benson Hill, a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, and Denmark-based BioMar, announced some days ago a strategic collaboration to advance BioMar’s responsible sourcing program by leveraging Benson Hill soy and further assessing its sustainability impact on high-performance aquafeed formulations. Together the companies are assessing how the advantages of Benson Hill ingredients advance BioMar’s sustainability program...
DSM Animal Nutrition & Health recently hosted with Romer Labs an exclusive webinar following the release of their annual Mycotoxin survey in animal farming. Which featured in-depth discussions on the mycotoxin threats to aquaculture, poultry, swine and ruminants. In 2022, over 27,000 samples were collected and analyzed from 87 countries around the world. The webinar touched on issues like upcoming...
The Global Shrimp Forum has announced the opening of registration for its second annual event. The forum, which takes place between 5th-7th September at the Van der Valk Hotel, Utrecht (Netherlands) will welcome over 400 high-level executives from across the globe, representing the entire shrimp value chain, farmers, feed companies, technology suppliers, service providers, processors, exporters, importers, wholesalers, retailers and...
Leading Netherlands-based shrimp importer Klaas Puul is teaming up with Nutreco -owned Skretting, the largest shrimp feed manufacturer in Ecuador, and Dutch sustainable feed ingredient suppliers Protix and Veramaris to supply supermarkets across Europe with more sustainable shrimp produced in Latin America. Albert Heijn, the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands and part of global retailer Ahold Delhaize, is the...
The Seagriculture Conference is the leading annual seaweed industry event held in alternating locations since 2012. Now, they members are launching an online edition called Seagriculture Asia-Pacific 2023, that will be dedicated to the seaweed industry in that region. The event will take place on 8 and 9 February, and the new edition will supply industry knowledge on seaweed topics...
The company acquires Tassal Group, Australia’s largest vertically integrated seafood producer The Superior Court of the State of Washington, in the United States (US) granted some days ago the motion filed by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific against the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Hilary Franz, the Commissioner of Public Lands, to extend the deadline to safely harvest steelhead...
The global tilapia industry currently enjoys a value of USD 14.1 billion and is estimated to reach a size of USD 22.3 billion by the end of 2033, according to the report created and released by Fact.MR. Global demand for tilapia fish is expected to increase at 4.6% CAGR over the next ten years, they assured. The detailed research report...
Australia’s Salmon Tasmania has launched a series of videos aimed at raising awareness of the realities of the salmon farming industry. In the videos – “honest and unscripted”- it talks to salmon farm workers and asks them about the most common misconceptions in a series of “simple but frank” interviews, as explained in a press release. For the organization’s directors,...
Some weeks ago, Thai Union Group has been ranked number one in the world in the food industry on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), further validating the progress made under its global sustainability strategy, SeaChange®. The group, one of the world’s largest seafood companies, has now been listed for nine consecutive years on the DJSI, a family of indices...
• Another research reveals this specie represents the cleanest fishery in the world Scientists from Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Brazil (Labomar) and Aker BioMarine, has concluded that krill meal is an effective functional ingredient for shrimp feed that can mitigate some of the challenges related to the stagnating supply of fish meal, including nutrition and growth performance, while remaining...
Working with scientists and farmers in Brazil, Thailand and China, the international food animal solutions company FAI Farms (FAI) has launched an online application for fish farmers around the world in an effort to improve welfare and profitability, beginning with tilapia farms, named Tilapia Welfare App. Now, the company is seeking partners in the hatchery, farming and processing sectors. “Who...
New technology resulting from a pioneering research and development project led by Irish company Impact-9 could lead to huge growth in seafood production at exposed offshore sites. According to the company, the offshore wind turbines could also be used as salmon farms and generate more than GBP 4.2 billion (about USD 5.2 billion) in turnover for Scotland's aquaculture sector, quadrupling...
