Aquaculture

The Russian government plans to increase the domestic production of aquaculture to 300,000 tonnes by 2020 and also plans to attract investors to the industry, reports Eugene Gerden.

Scottish aquaculture company Landcatch has announced that salmon eggs with improved resistance to sea lice will be made available for sale later this year.

BioMar is to invest more than €50m in a new production line that will expand the companys capacity in Norway by 30%.

Fusion Marine has recently refurbished eight fish farm pens at The Scottish Salmon Company’s (SSC) Toward site on Loch Striven using innovative new manufacturing techniques.

R.H. Ward (Welton) Ltd.’s tilapia farm, The Fish Company, in the United Kingdom is Europe’s first tilapia farm to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

Dawnfresh has become the first company in the UK to receive RSPCA Freedom Food certification for its farmed rainbow trout.

A new joint venture fish feed company was announced at Seafood Expo Global in Brussels last week.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and GLOBALG.A.P. came together at Seafood Expo Global to develop the next steps towards achieving efficiencies across the three programmes, following on from…