The biotechnology Aquaculture Company NaturalShrimp that has developed and patented the first shrimp-focused commercially operational RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System), announced a partnership with US Foods, South Texas area, with an exclusive grow out program for their customers in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. “We are very excited to build this channel-specific program for a leading national distributor,” said Marco van...
Actively involved in the booming global aquaculture sector, French BIO-UV Group has showed at Aquaculture Europe 2022, in Rimini, Italia, its versatile range of sustainable UV-C and Ozone solutions for disinfecting pond water. The well-established technologies prevent proliferation of algae and development of waterborne diseases, and reproduce high water quality similar to the natural ecosystem and biological environments in freshwater...
The Mount Dora, Florida-based company Aquatic Equipment and Design (A&ED) announced a few days ago that Ricardo Arias has joined its team as its new general manager. “We are excited to add Ricardo to our team and with him we look forward to continuing to serve our industry,” said A&ED. Prior to coming to the company, Arias spent three years...
In August 2022, Vietnam's shrimp exports reached more than USD 398 million, up 41% over the same period in 2021. Accumulated in the first 8 months of this year, shrimp exports reached more than 3 billion USD, up 24 %, reported Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP). In the first eight months of this year, in the top...
Dundee, Scotland-based aquaculture technology specialists, Ace Aquatec, have appointed Pisces Fish Machinery as their first equipment distributor in North, Central and South America. The newly formed partnership will see Pisces supply the company’s award-winning stunners for tilapia, trout, salmon and seabass to its customers across the Americas, where fish welfare and ethical practices have moved to the top of the...
The National Inland Fisheries Technology Center (NIFTC) of the Philippine Department of Agriculture Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) is strengthening its advocacy for the revitalization of indigenous freshwater species to increase local production in the fisheries sector through aquaculture. As a result of holistic, innovative and data-driven research and development, the Bureau has established different rearing techniques for...
In a world’s first Rare Earth Global, a UK producer of hemp crops is taking its first steps into the aquaculture sector that could see the alternative plant-based protein source used as a key ingredient for Atlantic salmon feeds. The company, growers of industrial hemp for a range of sustainable products, has received GBP 50,000 funding from the UK Seafood...
The Shrimpbox, created by the privately held corporation Atarraya, is described as an intelligent, automated shrimp farm that is disconnected from the oceans, and located close to the consumer. Atarraya has raised a USD 3.9 million Series A round led by Jeffrey Horing and other angel investors, including Mark Gormley, Geoffry Kalish, Robert Stavis, and Robert Goodman. With this round,...
Scientists of the Norwegian company Nofima have developed a health test for smolt that can provide information that fish farmers will benefit from when transferring salmon to the sea. The results can help increase the smolts’ chances of survival. Every year, approximately 15% of farmed salmon die after being transferred from land-based freshwater tanks to net-pens at sea. Most of...
This week, thousands of seafood professionals from around the world and across Asia have reconnected in-person at the 10th edition of Seafood Expo Asia, the Seafood Marketplace for Asia. The event, organized by Diversified Communications, started on 14 September and took place until 16 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre in Singapore. During the three-day expo, 209 exhibiting companies...
The Israelis companies Kibbutz Yotvata and Brevel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to build the ‘largest microalgae fermentation reactors of their kind’. The facility will be home to the largest fermentation reactors of their kind, said the companies, with the capacity to produce 900,000 liters per year, and 3,000 tons of dry product per year, when fully operational...
The annual General Assembly (GA) of the European Aquaculture Advisory Council (AAC) took a few days ago and at this occasion, its members chose Brian Thomsen as Chair for the next three years to come. Thomsen has represented the Danish Aquaculture Organization in the AAC since the creation of this European Union (UE) consultative body on aquaculture matters. Since 2017,...
