Breaking news, market research and analysis of the global aquaculture industry.
By SeafoodSource staff
20 August, 2012
Thriving tuna exports are behind an 18 percent boost to the value of the state’s aquaculture industry, a report shows.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
17 August, 2012
The United States’ rule-making process for organic aquaculture production and certification will happen a lot sooner than just recently anticipated.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 August, 2012
Basque-based researchers AZTI-Tecnalia will oversee two bluefin tuna projects to provide independent estimates of stock numbers and mortality rates.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 August, 2012
Clean Seas Tuna will cut jobs and put its Kingfish business up for sale because problems associated with sick fish have continued to hurt its bottom line.
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By SeafoodSource staff
15 August, 2012
Despite higher prices for farmed salmon, pancreas disease (PD) affected SalMar’s second quarter financial results.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 August, 2012
Mohamad Saupi Derahman, deputy director-general of operations, said the industry had the potential to support the national fish production and reduce import.
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By SeafoodSource staff
13 August, 2012
The Philippine fishery sector incurred losses amounting to PHP 387 million (USD 9.26 million) due to typhoons Vicente and Saola (local names Ferdie and Gener) and monsoon rains, a senior government official confirmed on Friday.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
09 August, 2012
Rising prices for sea cucumbers is prompting a surge in investment by some of China’s key aquaculture cultivators.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 August, 2012
Mainstream Canada, has been issued a notice by Canadian authorities to depopulate its Millar Chanel site that has tested positive for the IHN (infectious hematopoietic necrosis) virus.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 August, 2012
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of IHN (infectious hematopoietic necrosis) virus at Grieg Seafood’s Culloden Point salmon farm in British Columbia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 August, 2012
In a determined bid to make aquaculture a growing and vibrant food production sector, Dr. Fuad bin Ja'afar Al Sajwani, minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth called upon investors to exploit the huge potential available in the aquaculture and integrated farming sector of Oman.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 August, 2012
Grieg Seafood BC Ltd. on Thursday received preliminary positive results indicating that the IHN (infectious hematopoietic necrosis) virus has been identified at one of its salmon farms in British Columbia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 August, 2012
Camanchaca, a vertically-integrated Chilean seafood company, recently received two stars in the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices program.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
02 August, 2012
GlobalGAP Aims to be Global Standard of Choice for Chinese seafood exporters by year’s end.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 August, 2012
NZ King Salmon, whose costs to apply to expand its salmon farming operation in the Marlborough Sounds have blown out from NZD 2.5 million to NZD 8 million, has hit out at its opponents’ “damaging” campaign.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
01 August, 2012
European bluefin tuna researchers embark on innovative, sustainable TRANSDOTT project.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 July, 2012
With the U.N. saying there will be 9 billion people on the planet by mid-century, one big question comes to mind: How are we going to feed them?
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 July, 2012
Cermaq subsidiary Mainstream Canada on Monday revealed that the IHN (infectious haematopoietic necrosis) virus has been detected after routine testing at one of its Tofino-area farms in British Columbia.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 July, 2012
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have released a draft of their “National Aquaculture Research and Development Strategic Plan.”
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 July, 2012
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is holding a press conference on 20 August to formally introduce the first ASC-labeled product — tilapia from a farm in Indonesia.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
27 July, 2012
With an initial investment of EUR 12.3 million (USD 15 million) via parent company Grupo ACI, one of the largest global suppliers of fresh tilapia fillets to the United States, AquaChile has joined forces with BioMar Group, a leading feed supplier for salmon, trout, sea bass and sea bream, to install a new tilapia research center, trial facility and feed plant in Costa Rica.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 July, 2012
Fish feed giant Nutreco turned in a record first half in 2012, posting an EBITA of EUR 103.6 million, up 23.9 percent from the first half of 2011. It’s the first time that the company’s earning have exceeded 100 million.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 July, 2012
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has passed a VND 9 trillion package to support tra fish exporters, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 July, 2012
Many shrimp farmers in southern provinces are being hit by new diseases on top of low prices and falling export demand.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 July, 2012
Just over a decade ago, Napoleon Tsanis set out from Sydney with EUR 11 million and a dream to build a shrimp farm in his ancestral homeland.
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