Aquaculture

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AQUACULTURE

Japan’s largest retailer has become the first store in the country to sell Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certified salmon.

3rd March 2014

ASC salmon now available in Japan

3rd March 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Fjardalax ehf’s salmon farm sites in Iceland have become Europe’s first salmon farms to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

27th February 2014

First European salmon farms earn BAP certification

27th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new hatchery has been built at Cawthron Aquaculture Park near Nelson to improve understanding of New Zealand scampi and establish the world’s first captive breeding programme for the species.

26th February 2014

World’s first captive breeding programme for scampi

26th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Keith Hutchings, has announced a $7 million investment in aquaculture in the Canadian province.

18th February 2014

$7 million investment in Canadian province

18th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Western Australia’s first aquaculture development zone has been recommended for approval by the Environmental Protection Authority.

18th February 2014

Approval for Western Australia’s first aquaculture zone

18th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Marine Harvest has announced that its first two farms have been ASC-certified - Tarmvikodden and Buksevika in Vest-Agder County, Norway.

13th February 2014

First Marine Harvest farms ASC-certified

13th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Australian Government has announced that $3.5 million in funding has been secured for the Huon Aquaculture Value Added Processing Facility project, as part of the Tasmanian Jobs and Growth Plan

13th February 2014

Boost for Tasmanian aquaculture

13th February 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The organisers of AquaVision 2014 have announced that Sir Bob Geldof will be one of the main speakers at the conference in June.

30th January 2014

Sir Bob Geldof to speak at AquaVision 2014

30th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A draft of the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) hatchery and nursery standards for finfish, crustaceans and mollusks is now available for public comment until 31 March 2014.

29th January 2014

Draft hatchery standards available for comment

29th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) has officially opened its new research facility for shrimp and Asian fish species.

28th January 2014

Skretting opens Asian research facility

28th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme experienced robust growth in 2013 in terms of the number of BAP-certified facilities and the volume of product from those facilities on the market, reports…

21st January 2014

BAP growth in 2013

21st January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

An EU project which aims to increase the production of organic fish in Europe has been launched.

21st January 2014

Organic aquaculture project launched

21st January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

WorldFish has launched a new innovation platform to help plan for future growth of the highly successful Egyptian aquaculture sector.

16th January 2014

Innovation platform for Egyptian aquaculture launched

16th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

World Fishing & Aquaculture interviews Norwegian modern fish farming pioneer, Bjørn Myrseth to discover what he believes the future holds for the fast growing industry.

13th January 2014

Freshwater fish will become more important in aquaculture

13th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A Norwegian farm has become the first salmon farm to be awarded Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification.

9th January 2014

First salmon farm certified

9th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Fusion Marine has completed a fish farm pen order worth over €300,000 for a bass and bream farming operation in Malta.

8th January 2014

New pens for Maltese fish farm

8th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A Canadian mussel processing plant has become the first to attain Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

7th January 2014

First BAP mussel plant certified

7th January 2014

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new purpose-built laboratory at Cawthron Aquaculture Park near Nelson, has further boosted a long-term research programme to breed Pacific oysters resilient to a virus that devastated New Zealand’s oyster industry three…

12th December 2013

Oyster virus research boost

12th December 2013

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Chinese company DunAn Longyangxia has ordered a complete cage farm from AKVA Group – the first major contract for a complete cage farm in China.

5th December 2013

Complete cage farm for China

5th December 2013

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

In the midst of the ongoing debate in the US on the introduction of genetically modified transgenic salmon, Marine Harvest and WWF-Norway have said that if GM salmon is approved for human…

4th December 2013

Call for GM salmon labelling

4th December 2013