RAS

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

With the understanding that good lighting can stimulate growth and keep farmed salmon healthy, Philips aquaculture LED lighting has been installed at Havlandet’s newly-built, land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) pilot plant in…

29th November 2022

Illuminating RAS pilot

29th November 2022

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Protein company Unibio has announced that an initial trial of its single-cell protein Uniprotein on whiteleg shrimp (Pennaus vannamei) has been conducted and delivered up to 75% improved survival rate compared to a…

18th November 2022

Shrimp feed trial results

18th November 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture business The Kingfish Company has received approval from the town of Jonesport, Maine, for its Kingfish Maine building permit application. 

26th October 2022

Kingfish lands US approval

26th October 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian aquaculture services and equipment provider AKVA Group has secured a contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon (ILFS) for the delivery of a new smolt facility to be built in Vestmannaeyjar, the most southern…

4th October 2022

Smolt contract win for AKVA

4th October 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Saudi Arabia started developing fish farming in the 1980s, but for decades the industry was hindered by a mix of infrastructural and environmental challenges. However, there are high hopes that big money…

22nd September 2022

Miracle in the desert

22nd September 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Netherlands-based yellowtail kingfish producer Kingfish Zeeland has become the first company in Europe to successfully complete a pilot of Global Seafood Alliance’s (GSA) Raised Without Antibiotics Standard.

8th August 2022

European antibiotics first

8th August 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

How can RAS farms avoid the worst-case scenario?

27th July 2022

Managing mortalities

27th July 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Despite all the terrors of ongoing conflict, most Ukrainian fish producers have maintained their operations – not least because the population needs them to, learns World Fishing & Aquaculture

25th July 2022

Farming in the shadow of war

25th 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

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Japanese seafood firms Mitsubishi Corporation and Maruha Nichiro Corporation have agreed to establish a new joint-venture company, Atland Corporation, that will specialise in the land-based production of salmon.

4th July 2022

New Japan salmon venture

4th July 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Struggling to bolster food security, countries in this vast region have set their sights on aquaculture growth. But while ambitious plans are being laid out, fish farmers still find themselves undermined by…

19th May 2022

Central Asias aqua hopes

19th May 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

To strengthen its position within closed aquaculture systems, ozone and oxygen specialist Redox AS has acquired fellow Norwegian company Norluft AS.

11th May 2022

Redox acquires Norluft

11th May 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

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Land-based salmon farming company Proximar Seafood AS has reached an agreement with Marubeni Corporation whereby Marubeni will be the exclusive distributor in Japan for all the Atlantic salmon produced by the closed recirculating aquaculture…

21st April 2022

Proximar inks Japan deal

21st 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

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Technological advancements are key to aquaculture’s sustainable growth. Now, two initiatives could make significant contributions towards healthier production systems for salmon

23rd March 2022

Healthier salmon farming

23rd March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

If Turkish aquaculture integrates the latest advanced technologies and establishes new product segments, it could drive up its total output up to a level beyond 1 million tonnes per year by 2030…

16th March 2022

Turkish aquaculture boom

16th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Danish land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire has appointed Jon-Birger Løvik as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).

9th March 2022

Atlantic Sapphire new COO

9th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-based Proximar Seafood AS, which plans to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility producing Atlantic salmon in Oyama town at the foot of Mt Fuji in Japan, has signed a…

8th March 2022

Proximar installation deal

8th March 2022