Aquaculture

Chris Keller has been appointed Best Aquaculture Practices’ (BAP) market development manager-retail for North America.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program has surpassed the 800-facility milestone.

FSV Group has taken delivery of a customised 41-metre Damen barge which will provide a range of services to the Norwegian aquaculture industry.

MSD Animal Health (Merck Animal Health) has introduced AQUAVAC® PD3, a single-injection vaccine that protects against the three main pathogens affecting salmon in the UK and Ireland.

Norwegian company C-Feed is building the worlds first industrial plant for copepods – a fish-fry feed for the production of ballan wrasse, tuna, halibut and other marine species.

Australia’s James Cook University and partner organisations have launched a new prawn research hub, which will focus on developing the world’s most advanced breeding program for the farmed black tiger prawn.

Avanti Feeds Limited has become India’s third group to achieve four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status for shrimp or any species.

Open-ocean tilapia producer Aquasense Panama, S. de R.L. plans to develop the seafood industry’s first-ever open-ocean project for farm-raised saltwater tilapia products for the USA market.

Marine Harvest has reported that none of its staff were injured in the recent Calbuco volcanic eruption in southern Chile last week, but confirms that 6.8 million fry, 2.4 million eyed eggs…

Five Belize shrimp farms have been awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification.

Suryamitra Exim (P) Ltd., in conjunction with National Fish & Seafood (NFS), has become India’s second group to achieve four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status for shrimp or any species.

Fusion Marine has helped to upgrade part of Marine Harvest’s Cairndow Hatchery in a development project that was completed within a tight timescale so as to meet juvenile fish production requirements at…

The dates of the 6th Offshore Mariculture Conference have been changed to 21-24 September 2015 – immediately before the annual three day Baja Seafood Expo which begins on 25 September.

The Jersey Oyster Company has become the first oyster farm in the world to meet the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) standard for responsible bivalve aquaculture.