Breaking news, market research and analysis of the global aquaculture industry.
By SeafoodSource staff
07 November, 2012
Poor regulation of the aquaculture industry in Europe is putting a real damper on production. At a recent conference in Brussels, industry leaders met to discuss how to get policy makers to help fix the problem.
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06 November, 2012
Bill Taylor, president of Taylor Shellfish in Shelton, Wash., talks about the challenges with aquaculture production in the Northwest U.S. and the market for shellfish in Hong Kong.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 November, 2012
Darden Aquasciences Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the United States-based Darden Restaurants Inc., will pump in some USD 300 million (RMB 1 billion) to join forces with two Malaysian companies to develop the world's first integrated lobster aquaculture park, or iLAP, in Sabah under a USD 600 million (RMB 1.86 billion) deal.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 November, 2012
Faroe Islands-based farmed salmon producer Bakkafrost on Tuesday reported higher than expected margins for the third quarter of 2012.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 November, 2012
The Velella Mariculture Project has been named to Time magazine’s “50 Best Inventions of 2012” list.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 November, 2012
Virginia-based synthetic biology company Intrexon Corp. plans to buy a 48 percent interest in AquaBounty Technologies.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 November, 2012
A new aquaculture development strategy to be launched in Bream Bay this week aims to see aquaculture in Northland developed into a NZD 300 million industry employing more than 700 extra workers in less than two decades.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 November, 2012
The Global Aquaculture Alliance has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Indonesian Aquaculture Society.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 November, 2012
The U. S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC) has produced an online video promoting
sustainable aquaculture, looking at a facility in Mexico it has helped
fund research at.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 November, 2012
The Global Aquaculture Alliance on Thursday presented the second of two Lifetime Achievement awards to Dr. I Chiu Liao.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 October, 2012
The Global Aquaculture Alliance on Wednesday presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Chingchai Lohawatanakul.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 October, 2012
The Russkoe More Company, one of the largest producers of aquaculture in Russia said that the aquaculture sector in the first nine months of 2012 revenue totaled RUB 58.97 million (USD 1.9 million) against RUB 3.9 million (USD 0.12 million) a year earlier.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 October, 2012
Northern Harvest Sea Farms North American salmon operation is now certified under the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification program.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 October, 2012
Oyster lovers will be pleased to know scientists at West Beach are
cultivating the native flat oyster in the hope of spawning a new
aquaculture industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 October, 2012
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has chosen Australian salmon
company Tassal to help test new international performance standards, as
part of a final ASC review.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 October, 2012
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) says it has received 17 expressions of interest from firms to operate its planned EUR 40 million organic salmon farm off the Co Clare coast.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 October, 2012
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership announced today the
appointment of its first aquaculture director, Anton Immink, as part of the American
nonprofit’s expanding aquaculture work in Asia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 October, 2012
Skretting North America's fish feed production facilities in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, and Vancouver, British Columbia, are now certified under the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification program, the first fish feed plants in North America to be certified by BAP.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
24 October, 2012
China’s coastal aquaculture sector could be about to get a policy boost judging by a flurry of documents coming out of Beijing’s policy-making corridors recently.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 October, 2012
For the first time in India, cobia has been successfully cultivated in captivity, under the aegis of A.R. Thirunavukarasu. M. Karunakaran records the splash at Chennai-based CIBA's experimental station at Muttakadu.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 October, 2012
Disease at its Norway and Canada salmon farms has hit Cermaq’s third quarter earnings, including a 33 percent drop compared to the same quarter in 2011.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
18 October, 2012
The seafood industry is increasingly focusing its attention on the future as sustainability issues and aquaculture production top the agenda on the third and final day of Seafood Barcelona.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 October, 2012
Tasmanian researchers have found tuna are bigger and healthier when they are farmed further away from the shore.
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By SeafoodSource staff
16 October, 2012
Mainstream Canada on Monday announced it is appealing the British Columbia Supreme Court’s decision to deny its defamation claim against anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 October, 2012
The Harper Government is helping convert a former mushroom plant in
Thames Centre, Ont., to a state-of-the-art fish farm. The project was
announced today by Member of Parliament for Elgin-Middlesex-London, Joe
Preston, on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, Minister of
Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield and Minister of State for Science
and Technology Gary Goodyear.
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