New research involving several English universities reveals data of great importance for the aquaculture industry: the body clocks of rainbow trout shape daily rhythms of their immune system and the microorganisms that inhabit their skin. Keeping fish under constant light – often used by fish farms to enhance growth or control reproduction – disrupts these daily rhythms and leads to...
WITH THE CONTINUED SUPPORT, ALLER AQUA SHOWS IT’S DEDICATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AQUACULTURE SECTOR IN AFRICA. As founding gold sponsors of the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (WASAC), we are happy to announce that we have renewed our sponsorship for another three years. “The aquaculture sector continues to grow in Africa, and there is still a...
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). AKVA group has already used recycled plastic on the pen...
(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 sustainable seafood production. The initial 20-year agreement authorizes Forever Oceans...
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 year. The green protein concentrate has a similar nutrient profile...
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 of more than 4,800,000 tons. In that sense, the Ministry...
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 in October of the last year, would increase production of...
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 operation of aquaculture farms have been made. Among these projects...
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 farms located in the open ocean. The company’s co-owners are...
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 its success and advance plans to scale aquaculture across the...
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 the aquaculture sector with biological insights offering new opportunities to...
The directors of AquaFarm, International Conference & Trade Show on Aquaculture, Seaweed and Fishing Industry, whose fifth edition will be held on February 16 and 17 in the Italian city of Pordenone, announced that it is proud to support the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA 2022). The business meeting will feature a conference program, which will...
