Breaking news, market research and analysis of the global aquaculture industry.
By SeafoodSource staff
11 December, 2012
Aquaculture production has doubled in the last two years from 12,000 metric tons to stand at the 22,000 metric tons despite challenges in the fishing industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 December, 2012
Mainstream Canada's Tofino plant has become the first salmon farming company in British
Columbia to achieve two-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)
certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 December, 2012
A new EUR 1 million (USD 1.3 million) grant has allowed the Aquaculture
Stewardship Council (ASC) to begin work in China on developing more
sustainable methods of tilapia farming, the ASC said in a release today.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 December, 2012
Aquaculture is on the rise in Scotland, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 December, 2012
Kinki University plans to open a restaurant in Osaka next April that
serves bluefin tuna farmed from eggs — a breakthrough technology that
the university was the first to develop.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 December, 2012
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has launched an investigation
into a suspected finding of ISA at a commercial aquaculture facility in
Newfoundland and Labrador.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 December, 2012
A new EUR 6 million (USD 7.9 million) research partnership led by
universities in the UK and the Netherlands, but including many
international collaborators, is taking aim at disease outbreaks in fish
farms.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 November, 2012
International nonprofit research organization WorldFish has helped
develop two new strains of tilapia the organization claims will help
improve food supply and aquaculture productivity in Africa.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 November, 2012
Aquafinca Saint Peter Fish’s tilapia processing plant in Honduras has earned the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices certification.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 November, 2012
Pangasius producers in Vietnam are on track to achieve their target to certify 10 percent of their exports under the Aquaculture Stewardship Council standard by the end of this year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 November, 2012
Aquaculture technology company AgriMarine Holdings has partnered with a
Norwegian private equity group, Advatech AS, to bring AgriMarine’s
fish-rearing technology to Norway and several other countries.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 November, 2012
North West has rushed to be the first to take up the inland aquaculture
and fisheries program proposed by Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson, which seeks to encourage communities
living in areas close to rivers and dams to take up fish farming.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 November, 2012
A Texas-based repacking and reprocessing operation has earned Best
Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, according to a release from
the Global Aquaculture Alliance.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
21 November, 2012
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) on Wednesday celebrated the
achievements of the first five Vietnamese pangasius producers to gain
the ASC certification for responsible aquaculture.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 November, 2012
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) has just put up its latest set of
Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards for public comment.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 November, 2012
The Southwest United States' largest seafood distributor has donated monies to support Alaska research that rears wild king crab in a hatchery setting.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 November, 2012
Atlantic salmon are prized as a farm fish by growers — because they grow
to harvest size quickly — and by cooks and chefs for their firm flesh
and mild flavor.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 November, 2012
Guanghe Aquaculture is trying to get its claws into a bigger chunk of the hairy crab market.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 November, 2012
In 2011, the gross output of the aquaculture industry declined by EUR 12.8 million over 2010, the NSO reported.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 November, 2012
It was the feed all along, it seems. Pioneering aquaculture company Clean Seas Tuna has sought compensation worth tens of millions of dollars from two suppliers for the loss of kingfish devastated by the deficiency of an amino acid, taurine, in their feed.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 November, 2012
Local shrimp exporters are facing a tough competition from rivals to survive in the global market, as they are yet to introduce the new and highly productive vannamei species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
13 November, 2012
The Best Aquaculture Practices program has reached 1 million metric tons
of combined annual output from certified processing plants.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 November, 2012
The Government proposes allocation of 45 new green salmon licenses in 2013. Twenty of them will be located in Northern Norway.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 November, 2012
According to RA National Statistical Service, agricultural production volume grossed AMD 609.3 billion, with 10.5 percent increase recorded.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 November, 2012
Tropical Aquaculture has announced that its farm Aquamar S.A. is the first tilapia farming operation in the Americas to receive Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification.
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