Aquaculture

The Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Agriculture is planning to develop a new regulatory framework for the aquaculture industry through consultations with Nova Scotians.

Pacific Seafood Group’s steelhead trout farm on the Columbia River has become the first US steelhead trout or salmon farm to achieve Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

The European Commission has issued strategic guidelines for EU aquaculture, designed to boost the development of the sector.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA), Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and GLOBALG.A.P. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), agreeing to work collaboratively to increase efficiency and reduce duplication in the auditing process.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) is seeking public comment on the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards for mussel farms.

New research from market research firm The Freedonia Group, Inc. expects world demand for aquaculture supplies and equipment to grow 7.4% per year to $63.6 billion in 2017 at the farm gate…

Mainstream Canada has said that it was “shaken and saddened” to discover a dead humpback whale at its Ross Pass farm, north of Tofino, on 27 March and says it has never…

A small-scale commercial aquaculture developed project in Malawi has received £337,000 from the Scottish Government’s International Development Fund.

A new project coordinated by Nofima aims to improve the survival rate and health of salmon smolt transferred to cages at around one year old.

Aqua Gen is installing a new automated production line that ensures standardised and optimal treatment and fertilisation of the newly stripped eggs.

AKVA group has won a new contract worth over US$10m for the delivery of its cage farming technology to National Prawn Co. (NPC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The Israeli company, AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies, has established the largest industrialised tilapia farming facility in Europe. The facility, in Poland, is spread out over an area of 8,000m2 and will produce some…

For a fish farm, predatory birds are pests that kill and damage the farm’s fish stocks.

The participants of the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2012, part of World Fishing & Aquaculture and organised by Mercator Media, soon found that it was taking place in Izmir in Turkey for very…