Land-based Farming

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

How can RAS farms avoid the worst-case scenario?

27th July 2022

Managing mortalities

27th July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

US aquaculture venture Kingfish Maine has received overwhelming community support for its land-based production in Jonesport, with town residents voting down a proposed moratorium on the facilities

22nd July 2022

Kingfish Maine progresses

22nd July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norway-headquartered aquaculture services and equipment provider AKVA Group ASA hereby has confirmed that its wholly-owned subsidiary AKVA Group Land Based A/S has been awarded a post-smolt RAS contract with Cooke Aquaculture (Kelly Cove Salmon…

18th July 2022

AKVA wins smolt contract

18th July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution ASA has confirmed that on 13 July 2022 it successfully completed the second smolt release at its new facility at Indre Harøy on the country’s…

14th July 2022

Salmon Evolution release

14th July 2022

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Norwegian land-based aquaculture company Andfjord Salmon has signed a letter of intent with aquafeed supplier Skretting Norway and Sortland-based Zooca (Calanus AS) that facilitates the provision of a specifically designed salmon feed…

13th July 2022

Salmon feed collab

13th July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Australian aquaculture firm Tassal Group Ltd has confirmed that it has rejected of a conditional proposal from Cooke Inc to acquire 100% of Tassal’s ordinary shares for a cash consideration of AUD…

29th June 2022

Tassal rebuffs Cooke

29th June 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Portugal-based international food industry group Jerónimo Martins has confirmed it is to invest NOK 173.9 million in Norwegian land-based salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon.

22nd June 2022

Major investor for Andfjord

22nd June 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Icelandic salmon farming company Arnarlax has signed a share purchase agreement for the remaining 50% of shares in Eldisstöðin Ísþór smolt facility in Þorlákshöfn.

6th June 2022

Arnarlax acquires smolt facility

6th June 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based salmon producer AquaBounty has broken ground on the construction of its first 10,000-tonne Atlantic salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio. 

22nd April 2022

Ohio salmon farm underway

22nd April 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

The Netherlands-based yellowtail producer The Kingfish Company NV has entered into a Senior Facilities Agreement with P Capital Partners AB (PCP) for a five-year ESG-linked €75 million bilateral debt facility.

19th April 2022

Yellowtail farmer lands loan

19th April 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

2021 brought a rapid growth in Iceland’s farmed fish production and sector earnings, confirms new data compiled by Statistics Iceland.

5th April 2022

Iceland aquaculture growth

5th April 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Urchinomics, a Norwegian sea urchin ranching operation has been formally endorsed by the United Nations as an Ocean Decade action, one of only three commercial ventures worldwide to be selected

21st March 2022

Pioneering urchin farming

21st March 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Russia has targeted a dramatic increase in its fish farming output over the next decade, with authorities believing this ambition will be best realised through localised aquafeed and broodstock production and by…

14th February 2022

RAS for Russia

14th February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

The farming application – to be part of its existing operational facilities – is for a total 2,200 tonnes of post-smolt and applied salmon production. BioFish also recently confirmed the receipt of…

4th February 2022

BioFish submits salmon request

4th February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company AquaBounty Technologies Inc has begun site preparations for the construction of its planned 10,000-tonne recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio.

3rd February 2022

AquaBounty readies Ohio

3rd February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Kvidul has joined forces with Israel-based AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies to create a land-based RAS facility in Norway.

2nd February 2022

New RAS farm for Norway

2nd February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Work is underway at the land-based salmon farm owned and operated in Öxarfjörður by Icelandic seafood company Samherji that is expected to ramp-up its production by around 3,000 tonnes annually.

1st February 2022

Samherji expanding farm

1st February 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

A new indoor aquaponic vertical farm, said to be the world’s largest, is set to open in the US early next year.

28th January 2022

Upward Farms to build new vertical farm

28th January 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

While long-term debt financing to enable the completion of the second phase of its production strategy in the Netherlands is in advanced stages, The Kingfish Company has confirmed that a bridge facility…

18th January 2022

Land-based fish farmer secures additional €10m financing

18th January 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Alf-Gøran Knutsen, CEO of Norwegian salmon farming company Kvarøy Fiskeoppdrett AS and Kvarøy Arctic, has joined Arctic Seafarm Holding AS as chairman of the board, the two companies have confirmed. At the…

22nd December 2021

Arctic Seafarm gets government green light, Kvarøy CEO joins the board

22nd December 2021