Aquaculture

DESS Aquaculture will install Optimarin ballast water management systems (BWMS) on four of its newbuild 3,500m3 capacity wellboats.

AKVA will acquire 100% of the shares in Egersund Net from Egersund Group with the deal expected to be completed around 31 August.

M&S has named Scottish Sea Farms’ team at Wyre, Orkney, as its Outstanding Producer of the year in its Farming for the Future Awards 2018.

Scottish Sea Farms’ longest serving employee Geoff Kidd has celebrated 40 years of service including more than three decades as farm manager of Loch Spelve on Mull.

IFFO, The Marine Ingredients Organisation has appointed Petter Martin Johannessen as director general.

The company expects to begin producing a high protein animal feed ingredient later this summer as a major construction at the Flint Hills Resources Fairmont ethanol plant is approaches completion.

More than a hundred organisations have formally announced their united opposition to industrial ocean fish farming in US waters. According to Friends of the Earth, the move comes as some members of Congress…

US sustainable seafood alliance Sea Pact is to fund three new aquaculture projects to help drive sustainability in the industry.

The European Commission and the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) have secured a 10-year pledge to rebuild the Black Sea fish stocks, protect the regions ecological and economic wealth and…

Fitco SA has been named as a gold sponsor of the 2018 High Energy Mariculture Europe conference.

Thirty-four tilapia farms in Hainan, China, have earned Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

Damen has unveiled its 43m UV 4312 fish farm support vessel fitted with a chemical-free delousing installation and able to undertake the maintenance and support tasks particular to saltwater fish farms across…

Aquaculture UK has been formally opened by the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity Fergus Ewing.

This years Offshore Mariculture Conference Chairman was Alessandro Lovatelli, FAO Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer based at Santiago in Chile. He started his aquaculture career in Europes private sector when working on…

The Offshore Mariculture Conference brought together attendees from a host of countries and aquaculture fields, and the conference made it clear that the future of aquaculture lies offshore.

Innovasea Systems Tyler Sclodnick opened Session 5 at OMC Asia and said that working with ocean systems is all about energy – currents, winds and waves. This, he stated, makes the theme…

Opening the second day of the Offshore Mariculture Conference 2018 by summarizing the first day, conference ?chairman Alessandro Lovatelli noted the large moves underway from small cages to bigger ones, and efforts…

Although offshore aquaculture seems promising for Singapore and the rest of SE Asia, zoning, licensing and security aspects for planning and management of aquaculture are key to successfully farming fish at sea.…