After leading a management buyout of Spring Genetics from Benchmark, Hideyoshi Segovia Uno is working hard to help ensure the international tilapia sector – particularly in Latin America (LATAM) –…
As the SEAfood Act and the AQUAA Act are being debated in Congress, Emily De Sousa joined two of America’s leading seafood chefs – Barton Seaver and Steve Phelps – on a tour of some of the world’s…
The Panama small pelagics fishery and its associated fishmeal and fish oil production sites are the first to have gained approval and certification following their journey on the MarinTrust Improver…
As their first kanpachi harvest approaches in Panama, Bill Bien, CEO of Forever Oceans, outlines their bold – yet environmentally sensitive – plans to grow.
The detection of an unidentified pathogen in my own farm caused me to consult some of the world’s preeminent experts on early mortality syndrome (EMS) about a possible solution and taught me another…
Shrimp industry veteran Dr Bill McGraw has overcome numerous challenges to establish a unique organic shrimp and tilapia production facility in Panama.
In his latest publication, the new book Mercury, The Ultimate Truth and Chronic Disease, the award-winning multidisciplinary scientist Dr. Bill McGraw documents all of the facts about mercury like…
A cobia farm operated by Open Blue in Panama has become the first in the world to be certified to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) seriola and cobia standard.
Following recent claims that culturing salmon in open net pens could become the most sustainable form of healthy protein production on the planet, Dr Bill McGraw assesses the relative merits of…
PANAMA - The time is right for Panama to engage new technology and be at the forefront of the aquaculture industry. There are many reasons to consider aquaculture investment in Panama with the right…
PANAMA - Disease in shrimp farming has cost the industry many billions of dollars in the past ten years. In Central America there have been billions of dollars in losses to shrimp farms in the…
PANAMA - Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have responded to claims that their recent comments over the invasive potential of cobia are absolute nonsense".
PANAMA - Cobia, a promising fish for aquaculture, lives throughout the world's oceans except in the Central and Eastern Pacific. In August 2015, a large number of young fish escaped from offshore…
PANAMA - BIOMIN has further expanded its global production network with the opening of a production plant in Panama. The inauguration marks the latest milestone in the firms local presence that…
PANAMA - A seminar has taken place in Panama on fish consumption in Mesoamerica and prospects to increase its contribution to the nutrition of the population.
PANAMA - Open-ocean tilapia producer Aquasense Panama has begun site preparation at its Gulf of Panam ocean site where the company plans to develop the seafood industrys first-ever open-ocean project…
PANAMA - Open Blue Sea Farms, the single largest supplier of fresh cobia to the US and the largest deep-water open-ocean farm in the world has achieved the GLOBALG.A.P. Aquaculture Standard.
PANAMA - Participants of the Working Group on Queen Conch met in Panama 18-20 November to developed a new set of regional harmonized measures for the management and conservation of this large mollusc…
PANAMA and US - Officials in Panama have fined AquaBounty $9500 due to a deficiency in certain local permitting requirements affecting its Panama operations.
PANAMA - Tilapia production in Panama has increased in recent years, with over a million tonnes harvested in 2012, 94 per cent higher than in 2011. However, the number of producers has thought to…
PANAMA - A new study commissioned by WWF uncovers that between 2000 and 2010, the equivalent of 18,704 tons of live Bluefin tuna were traded via Panama without being reported to the International…
PANAMA - A major international conference will help to demonstrate the important contribution of aquatic animal health programmes to improving aquaculture productivity and sustainability, and…
ACHOTINES BAY, PANAMA - On the final day of the IATTC Workshop John Hutapea and Alex Mhlhlzl collected and collating the data from the last trial, being a growth and survival analysis on a high…
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