Land-based Farming

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Aquafeed giant Skretting has committed to supply feed to the hybrid flow-through salmon project, in a partnership that strengthens its immediate commercial and future strategic positions. 

22nd April 2024

Skretting and Iceland’s LAXEY enter long-term partnership

22nd April 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

AKVA is teaming up with Laxey to advance land-based aquaculture in Iceland.

15th April 2024

AKVA advances land-based farming in Iceland

15th April 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

As the fastest-growing food sector today, aquaculture has become a huge industry, with production accounting for over 50% of total global aquaculture and fisheries output. But as farmers densely pack offshore pens,…

4th April 2024

Aquaculture: Disease prevention without the chemicals

4th April 2024

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

MSD Animal Health Norway has signed an agreement to partner with First Water hf, formerly known as Landeldi hf, a company working towards developing land-based fish farming in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland, to deploy FALCON Biomass vision technology in…

2nd April 2024

Iceland’s First Water integrates biomass measurement tech

2nd April 2024

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

To promote shrimp larvae production management and to boost recognition for those hatcheries that are improving the quality of their product, together with their environmental and social impacts, the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership…

6th March 2024

Ecuador launches Scale Up to take the lead in shrimp larvae production

6th March 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Land-based salmon farmer, Gigante salmon has halved its production as a result of smolt deaths.

19th February 2024

Gigante halves production after smolt deaths

19th February 2024

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Israel land-based shrimp farming company ECOshrimp has completed and stocked its first commercial prototype tank.

13th December 2023

ECOshrimp project advances to stocking stage

13th December 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) has begun the expansion of its sole hatchery in Galicia, Spain. The facility in Cervo, already the world’s largest flatfish hatchery, will enable the company…

7th December 2023

Stolt Sea Farm starts flatfish hatchery expansion

7th December 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bakkafrost is to build a new recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) smolt hatchery in Skálavík, Faroe Islands.

8th November 2023

Bakkafrost plans new RAS smolt hatchery

8th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership is launching two new projects to help address sustainability issues in land-based aquaculture.

20th September 2023

SFP sets its sights on land-based aquaculture

20th September 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Proximar Seafood AS has through its subsidiary, Proximar Ltd, taken ownership of the entire fish farming facility in Oyama, Japan. 

20th September 2023

Proximar takes full control of Japanese facility

20th September 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based yellowtail kingfish producer The Kingfish Company NV has received a welcome boost with the rejection of an appeal against its Maine project and the upholding of its state permits. This is the second appeal to…

30th August 2023

Kingfish Maine permits upheld

30th August 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company Andfjord Salmon is rapidly advancing with the expansion of its facility at Kvalnes, Andøya, Norway, with the company reporting that the summer months saw successful preparatory efforts and the…

23rd August 2023

Andfjord Salmon expansion in full swing

23rd August 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-raised salmon company Atlantic Sapphire ASA, together with its subsidiaries, harvested a total volume of approximately 400 tonnes of head-on-gutted (HOG) fish in the three months that ended 30 June 2023. This…

8th August 2023

Atlantic Sapphire addresses biomass shortfall

8th August 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based salmon farming company Gigante Salmon has confirmed it is on course to start production at its first facility on Lille Indre Rosøy in Rødøy, Norway, this autumn.

8th August 2023

Gigante Salmon readies for production start

8th August 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) has received official approval to expand the flatfish hatchery at its facility in Cervo, Spain, which will significantly increase its production of turbot and sole.

1st August 2023

Stolt to increase flatfish production

1st August 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

“The potential for land-based aquaculture is huge,” says Kjetil Haga, founding partner of impact seafood investor Bluefront Equity, “and a lot of that is down to events taking place in the salmon…

13th July 2023

Bluefront Equity takes a niche approach

13th July 2023

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

There’s been a lot of talk about recirculation aquaculture systems – or RAS – in recent years, with a torrent of new projects coming onstream for a growing number of species and…

13th July 2023

Expanding the horizon for RAS

13th July 2023

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

In recognition that recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are becoming increasingly popular in Europe as they allow to shrimp producers produce high-quality, fresh products within close proximity of key markets, Danish aquaculture feed company Aller Aqua…

13th July 2023

A step up for recirc shrimp

13th July 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

In October 2022, the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) announced it had developed a modular and versatile Partial air-driven Recirculation Aquaculture System (PaRAS) to improve energy efficiency and production capacity for fish…

13th July 2023

Inside Finland’s new PaRAS concept

13th July 2023