Breaking news, market research and analysis of the global aquaculture industry.
By SeafoodSource staff
07 January, 2010
The Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue’s draft shrimp standards are expected to be available for the first of two 60-day public comment periods in the coming weeks.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
06 January, 2010
Kona Blue Water Farms and the newly formed Keahole Point Fish will partner to advance open-ocean production of Kona Kampachi, a yellowtail relative.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 January, 2010
The Ocean Stewards Institute is the latest organization to applaud the open-ocean aquaculture bill introduced last month by U.S. Rep Lois Capps.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
31 December, 2009
A new report says fish farming is one of Scotland’s economic success stories and is poised to grow in the years to come.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 December, 2009
Tropical Aquaculture Products' two largest tilapia farms in Ecuador are the first tilapia farms in the Americas to attain the designation.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 December, 2009
The NGO calls new aquaculture legislation unnecessary and a concern for coastal and fishing communities and the environment.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 December, 2009
A bacterial outbreak this summer results in tight supplies and increased prices, but the country’s tilapia output is still expected to increase this year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 December, 2009
Adelaide, South Australia, successfully bids for the 2014 World Aquaculture Symposium, organized by the World Aquaculture Society every four years.
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By Mercedes Grandin, SeafoodSource contributing editor
21 December, 2009
Four experimental open-ocean mussel farms have been set up in Vineyard Sound off Martha’s Vineyard and in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 December, 2009
A rating change for imported shrimp in Monterey Bay Aquarium’s seafood-buying guide may result from the organization’s upcoming report on shrimp farming.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 December, 2009
The tilapia standards are the first set of standards to be completed via the Aquaculture Dialogues, coordinated by the WWF.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 December, 2009
California Congresswoman Lois Capps says her legislation would negate the regulatory framework approved by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and balance environmental, social and economic concerns of open-ocean aquaculture.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
09 December, 2009
An increase in farmed fish production could provide greater access to affordable, safe and nutritious food, say two UK agencies.
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By Neil Ray, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Bangkok
07 December, 2009
Dr. Len Stephens, managing director of Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre, tells SeafoodSource about this year’s breakthroughs in southern bluefin tuna aquaculture.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 December, 2009
Organizations from Canada, Chile and Norway partner to produce a genome sequence for Atlantic salmon, which may lead to better management of wild fish stocks.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
26 November, 2009
Juan Carlos Martin Fragueiro reaffirms the economic importance of Spain's farmed seafood industry at the 12th National Congress of Aquaculture.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 November, 2009
The Kwicksutaineuk and Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation blames the provincial government for the decline in pink salmon stocks by allowing salmon farms.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 November, 2009
Tropical Aquaculture Products will donate fresh tilapia fillets to food banks across the United States.
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By Catherine Zhang, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Beijing
24 November, 2009
More than 10,000 acres of fish farms, mostly shellfish and tilapia farms, have been affected by one of the country's worst dry spells in decades.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 November, 2009
The Norwegian company’s salmon farms in Scotland and sea bass and sea bream farms in Spain both saw profit margins shrink.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 November, 2009
The Fairmont Royal York will now serve eco-certified True North Salmon from Cooke Aquaculture year-round.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 November, 2009
The Australian aquaculture company’s breakthrough in southern bluefin tuna breeding landed at No. 2 on the magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 November, 2009
The world’s largest farmed salmon producer watched its operating earnings and revenues increase in the third quarter.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 November, 2009
More than 90 industry, environmental and scientific representatives from around the world are descending on Bergen, Norway, this week.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 November, 2009
The Norwegian aquaculture technology company attributes its lackluster third quarter to a lack of investment in the farmed salmon industry.
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