NTT Green & Food (NTT G&F) is set to begin construction in early 2026 on a major Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) facility for Coho Salmon and Trout in Kesennuma City, Miyagi…
Akaroa King Salmon has received a Global Technical Recognition award from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its leadership in sustainable aquatic food systems.
A paper that has been recently published in the Journal of Fish Diseases raises questions about the widely repeated assumption that the removal of salmon farms results in a decline in sea lice…
The Kurt Grinnell Aquaculture Scholarship Foundation, in partnership with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, will host the first Pacific Northwest Indigenous Aquaculture Summit on 26-28 August.
Japanese farm Izumisawa Suisan has become the first commercial farm to obtain Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification for its cherry salmon production.
A new risk assessment tool, launched by the Global Salmon Initiative and the World Wildlife Fund, promises increased visibility into the environmental and social impacts of aquafeed ingredient supply…
Aquafeed producer BioMar has today announced the release of ‘Calm’ - a salmon feed supplement designed to reduce the impacts of stress on fish development and growth.
The Peruvian authorities have announced that the second fishing season for anchovy and white anchovy in the North-Centre of the country will be officially closed on 13 January.
A new salmon welfare scorecard has been developed and trialled by Compassion in World Farming, reporting the performance of eight major salmon producers against 13 key welfare parameters, in the…
Mowi Canada West have partnered with Canada-based aquatech firm Poseidon Ocean Systems to test novel technologies at its Monday Rock salmon farm to improve fish welfare.
Creative Salmon – North America’s largest supplier of organic king salmon – has chosen Innovasea as its biomass estimation partner after a six-month pilot program.
LocalCoho, a land-based aquaculture company that raises premium coho salmon, is the first commercial customer of Shinkei Systems, a technology startup that has automated a traditional Japanese…
LocalCoho, which produces Coho salmon in a land-based system in upstate New York, has received multi-million dollar funding from the prominent seafood entrepreneurs Rodger May and Per Heggelund.
Dr Conrad (Connie) VW Mahnken (1937-2021) has been selected as the winner of the Northwest Aquaculture Alliance’s (NWAA) Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021-2022, in “recognition of his significant…
Taste of BC Aquafarms, which has been farming steelhead in a RAS facility since 2013, has taken its first steps in the production of Chinook salmon this year.
A new £1.7 million research effort from Scotland's Roslin Institute and the University of Stirling's Institute of Aquaculture hopes to identify genetic mechanisms that could make Atlantic salmon more…
Field trials with Mowi Chile demonstrate that lice skirts made with Garware fibres can successfully contain infestations of Caligus larvae while allowing water to flow and maintain dissolved oxygen…
The gene editing tool CRISPR is now being used to generate a range of traits in a variety of farmed aquatic species – including salmonids, crustaceans and carp – but there is still a way to go before…
Five aquaculture projects have been pledged a share of a new $7.9 million funding round from the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BCSRIF).
LocalCoho, which farms Coho salmon in a recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) in upstate New York, has launched an inventive new fundraising campaign.
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