Aquaculture

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Regal Springs Tilapia farm Aquafinca in Honduras was the first aquaculture operation to be audited by the Institute for Marketecology (IMO) for compliance with the International Standards for Responsible Tilapia Aquaculture (ISRTA),…

25th October 2010

First tilapia farm becomes compliant with aquaculture dialogue standards

25th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

To mark the arrival of the 10 millionth Norwegian salmon to China, the Norwegian Seafood Export Council (NSEC) created a sushi mosaic featured 8,374 pieces of sushi made from different types of…

25th October 2010

New world record: largest sushi mosaic

25th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

South Australias mussel industry is to trial a programme in which hatchery-raised mussel spat will be imported from Tasmania.

21st October 2010

Tasmania to send mussel spat to South Australia

21st October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Salmon farming giant Marine Harvest has filed an official complaint against rules that prevent the company from growing any larger in Norway, saying it wants to participate in the consolidation of the…

12th October 2010

Marine Harvest wants in on consolidation

12th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Akva Group has won a contract with the National Prawn Company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for delivery of a pre-grow-out system for the production of yellowtail kingfish.

12th October 2010

Saudi kingfish contract for Akva

12th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cooke Aquaculture is planning to spend $150 million (€107.4 million) over five years to expand its Nova Scotia operations.

8th October 2010

Cooke announces $150m expansion

8th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Nutreco on 6 October hosted a Capital Markets Day in Italy with a site visit to its fish feed plant and its recently inaugurated premix plant in Mozzecane. Next to the site…

6th October 2010

Nutreco hosts Capital Markets Day in Italy

6th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Three federal and state grants totalling more than $1 million (€728,607) will be used by Alaska Sea Grant to establish a state-wide network of citizen scientists to track the spread of marine…

4th October 2010

Alaska receives $1m grants to boost shellfish farming

4th October 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

South African net manufacturing specialist Alnet has added to its range of nylon, knotless Kapenta nets with polyethylene knotless Kapenta nets.

29th August 2010

Alnet’s new polyethylene nets

29th August 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Croatia is at the heart of Europe’s fish farming industry and has been chosen to host the biennial Offshore Mariculture Conference in June.

25th May 2010

Bringing pioneers together

25th May 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A recent study funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified investment opportunities in the aquaculture sector in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.

23rd April 2010

US identifies aquaculture opportunities in Sri Lanka

23rd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Americas Mazzetta Company will cooperate with a Vietnamese firm to train fish breeders to sustainably farm and process pangasius (tra and basa fish) in accordance with US standards, according to Vietnams official…

23rd April 2010

Pangasius breeding cooperation

23rd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

R&D Manager Hans Otto Sørensen expects TripleNine’s products to be IFFO certified within a couple of months.

23rd April 2010

TripleNine ready for IFFO certification

23rd April 2010

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INSIGHT

There has been an abundance of wild-caught cod on most European markets over the last six months and with these supply conditions expected to prevail well into 2011, cod farming would appear…

22nd April 2010

Where next for farmed cod?

22nd April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

AKVA group has signed a new €6.8m contract for delivery of three complete turnkey fish farms to Cromaris in Croatia.

21st April 2010

Breakthrough for AKVA group

21st April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

AKVA group has signed a contract for delivery of three turnkey fish farms to Cromaris d.d. in Croatia, totalling EUR6.8m.

16th April 2010

Major contract for AKVA group

16th April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

In Norway, aquaculture expert OxSeaVision and Trelleborg have teamed up to develop a system that pumps oxygen into offshore fish farms, helping fish remain healthy and grow bigger.

5th April 2010

Fishing for oxygen

5th April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Board of Directors of Marine Harvest ASA has appointed Alf-Helge Aarskog as CEO of Marine Harvest ASA.

5th April 2010

Alf-Helge Aarskog appointed new CEO of Marine Harvest

5th April 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) has published a sustainability league table of the principal fisheries used for the production of fishmeal and fish oil.

26th March 2010

New sustainability league table of fisheries used for fishmeal and fish oil

26th March 2010

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Marine Farms is launching farmed cobia at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels.

18th March 2010

Cobia set to make its mark at ESE

18th March 2010