Aquaculture

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The staggering economic toll of climate change on Bangladesh’s aquaculture has been revealed for the first time in a new study published in Climate Risk Management.

9th January 2024

Bangladesh aquaculture counts the cost of climate change

9th January 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Using machine learning and satellite imagery to create the first global map of large vessel traffic and offshore infrastructure, a new study led by Global Fishing Watch has found a significant amount of…

8th January 2024

AI and satellite tech reveals titanic at-sea activity growth

8th January 2024

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

While its production technology has been tried and tested, Nueva Pescanova’s octopus farming project is at a crossroads, with regulatory approval to get the work started pending. The farm in Spain’s Canary…

2nd January 2024

Octopus farming – to be or not to be?

2nd January 2024

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Intership has taken delivery of its second newbuild from Zamakona with the handover of the hybrid-powered, Salt-designed Inter Scotia.

2nd January 2024

New wellboat for Intership

2nd January 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

In 2021, the percentage of overfished stocks in the Mediterranean and Black Sea fell below 60% for the first time, following a decreasing trend that started a decade ago, according to a…

22nd December 2023

FAO/GFCM: Mediterranean, Black Sea overfishing fallen to lowest level in a decade

22nd December 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VII, LP, an investment fund managed by American Industrial Partners, has become the majority and controlling shareholder in AquaShip AS and Intership AS and will merge the…

20th December 2023

AquaShip, Intership merge to create aqua service vessel giant

20th December 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Australia has completed initial testing of a ‘weather service’ for water quality in a key seafood providing region.

11th December 2023

Australia trials water quality test system

11th December 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A diet supplement used by humans for its anti-ageing benefits could help salmon improve their immune systems.

6th December 2023

Human anti-ageing pill could improve salmon health

6th December 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new salmon scorecard has been launched tracking the performance of eight major producers against 13 key welfare parameters.

30th November 2023

Salmon scorecard tracks fish welfare

30th November 2023

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

A more positive production outlook is expected across the shrimp and fin-fish aquaculture sectors next year, according to the findings of the latest seafood industry survey conducted by Rabobank and the Global Seafood…

28th November 2023

Less turbulence, more optimism for aquaculture in 2024

28th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Enhancing blue finance for innovations and developments in the aquaculture sector will help mitigate a range of critical threats posed by climate change and the increasing demand for food and nutritional security,…

28th November 2023

FAO: Enhance blue finance for aquaculture innovations

28th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Norwegian salmon farming has a key role to play in helping prevent the rise of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

27th November 2023

Halting the rise of drug-resistant bacteria

27th November 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Although the framework for promoting the sustainable development of aquaculture in EU member states has improved, the substantially increased funding has not yielded tangible results. In fact, production seems to be at…

27th November 2023

European Court of Auditors: EU aquaculture ‘stagnating’

27th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Skretting has appointed a new managing director for its Nutreco Asia subsidiary and announced a new partnership with sustainable marine ingredients innovator, Zooca Calanus.

24th November 2023

Skretting announces new partnership and Nutreco MD

24th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Indonesian shrimp farm PT Koyo Segoro Endah (KSE) has become the first farm to earn Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification after participating in an aquaculture improvement project (AIP) under the organisation’s Improver…

22nd November 2023

First farm achieves ASC through improver programme

22nd November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI) has recognised the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme under Version 2.0 of GSSI’s Global Benchmark Tool, the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) has confirmed.

15th November 2023

GSSI renews recognition of BAP programme

15th November 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Redundancies have been made at Bakkafrost which the company says is directly due to a decrease in harvest volumes and the new Faroese revenue tax.

14th November 2023

Faroese revenue tax blamed for Bakkafrost job losses

14th November 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

More than 20 countries and the European Union have confirmed the adoption of 34 measures aimed at ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of marine living resources, as well as the sustainable…

13th November 2023

Progress for Med and Black Sea fisheries, aquaculture

13th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Soaring international demand has seen the value of Scottish salmon exports jump 7% in a year.

13th November 2023

Scottish salmon exports leap 7%

13th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Propulsion and manoeuvring systems supplier Brunvoll has been selected to deliver a range of equipment for a new compact service vessel designed by Moen Marin for the aquaculture industry.

10th November 2023

Brunvoll contracted for new aquaculture service vessel

10th November 2023