Nicki Holmyard

From a tentative start a decade ago, Ocean Harvest Technology has grown into the largest global producer of animal feed ingredients made from seaweed blends.

Ocean Harvest Technology’s OceanFeed blends of brown, green, and red seaweed are in high demand across the aquaculture, bovine, equine, swine, poultry, and pet sectors all over the world, and particularly in Europe and the Americas, according to Ocean Harvest CEO Mark

U.K fishermen were promised the results of Brexit and leaving behind the European Union's common fisheries policy would enable the country to regain control of its waters. A fisheries white paper also guaranteed a historic opportunity to do things better.

However, a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group titled “Brexit: Voices of the U.K. Fishing Industry" shows the rhetoric turned out to lack substance. In reality, Brexit left

Ålesund, Norway-based ocean tech company Ava Ocean has pioneered a new method of seabed shellfish harvesting and is about to start a five-year commercial test fishery to prove the concept.

The company has worked with marine scientists to develop a precise method to pick Arctic scallops (Chlamys islandica) and other seafood from the seabed without taking bycatch or harming the surrounding environment. As a result, Ava Ocean has been awarded

The Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific coast of Central America, has the potential to produce significantly more shrimp by transforming traditional pond culture into more efficient units, SeaJoy CEO Ismael Wong said at the recent Global Shrimp Forum.

Currently, 60 percent of shrimp production in Central America comes from just two countries – Honduras and Nicaragua – which both have coastlines on the gulf. And Seajoy is a big part

Seafood is more nutritious than terrestrial animal protein and has a lower carbon footprint, according to a study published in September 2022 in the research journal Communications Earth and Environment.

The study, a collaboration between the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies, and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, provides suggestions for maximizing the nutritional

Scientists at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Portugal have been undertaking research into the health risks associated with human ingestion of nanoparticles found in aquaculture products.

The lab’s Nanoculture Project is investigating the presence and effects of the most-used nanoparticles, titanium dioxide and silver, in turbot, mussels, and the seaweeds dulse and sea lettuce, all of which are farmed in the

Researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway, have used the CRISPR/Cas9 method of gene editing to produce salmon that cannot produce gametes (eggs and sperm), so cannot reproduce.

If produced for commercial purposes, any escaped fish would be unable to breed with the wild salmon population. They would also not experience the issue of early sexual maturation, which can lead to poor meat quality and greater

A venture to grow black tiger prawns in an intensive culture system in rural northern Greece has become one of the first commercially viable operations for the species in Europe, according to its general manager.

Europrawn Hellas General Manager of Aquaculture Albert Ferrer Lladosa said his company was founded to develop sustainable, environmentally friendly, and ethical shrimp aquaculture in Europe based on FAO principles for blue economies,