Aquaculture

In mid 2008, the board of Pioneer Fishing, a South African fishing company active in the fishmeal/fish oil, canning and frozen fish sectors, approved a USD2.5m investment in the upgrade of its…

AKVA group has been awarded a contract for the supply of Wavemaster steel cages to Marine Harvest in Scotland. This will involve delivering completed cage groups in October 2009 and early 2010.

Results from a series of salmon feeding trials run by Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) revealed a new low limit for fishmeal in salmon grower feeds.

Aquaculture equipment supplier Fusion Marine has made a major £70,000 investment in developing purpose-built manufacturing tools to aid in the construction of a new range of fish farm cages.

Fiskeriforskning has detected a substance in fishmeal that can mean many hundreds of millions of Kroner (NOK) in increased revenues for the Norwegian aquaculture industry.

AKVA group will launch a brand new fish farming boat at the Aqua Nor tradeshow in Trondheim, Norway, this August.

GLOBEFISH’s Fishery Industry Officer, Helga Josupeit, wrote the latest GLOBEFISH Fishmeal Market Report. It shows the following fishmeal figures for the first quarter of 2007:

Aquaculture Technology is an Austria based company that develops and exports innovative technology for use within fish production.

We have asked you before whether you are “tricantering or not my man” [WF March 2004] and Flottweg of Germany says it has now given a new twist to its helical products…

ICELANDIC company HAARSLEV has delivered its first HAARSLEV Twin Screw Press - the HM80C press - with a screw diameter of 800 mm and six-metres long. It can handle 70 tonnes of…

Dutch-based Nutreco says it is adopting a two-pronged strategy to ... regain solid profit growth, reduce earnings volatility and improve return on invested capital. It has been affected by falling sales.

Fish farming is gaining in importance in Icelands range of fish products. Pilar Santamaria reports from Reykjavik on how salmon production has increased in two years from 3,000 tonnes to 10,000t and…

Adrian Tatum charts the progress of the fishmeal industry over the past year

Quite often one side of the world does not know what the other is doing. That can be just as true of the European fishmeal industry which sources much of its product…