Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has
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Noray Seafood said on Friday, 11 February it has raised EUR 16 million (USD 19.2 million) to accelerate expansion plans at its indoor shrimp farm in Medina del Campo, Spain.
Noray Seafood has developed a microbial technology for farming whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in a land-based system, creating a controlled bacterial culture environment. Known as Gamba Natural until 2020, when the company rebranded, it now operates a fully
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Fredrikstad, Norway-based Fredrikstad Seafoods has won a decision from Norway’s Borgarting Court of Appeal ruling Gråkjær must compensate the company for a construction failure at its land-based fish farm in Øra, Norway.
Gråkjær was ordered to pay NOK 60.9 million (USD 6.9 million) plus interest, totalling more than NOK 77 million (USD 8.7 million), Bernt-Olav Røttingsnes, CEO of Fredrikstad
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Fish Farm International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gigante Havbruk, has applied for a permit to build a land-based farm in Northern Norway ...
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Just six months after Norwegian aquaculture venture Norcod began commercial harvesting of its farmed cod, generating its first sales revenue, the company has landed a major contract with an unnamed Spanish retailer ...
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As the Norwegian salmon-farming community increasingly turns towards land-based aquaculture using flowthrough, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), or hybrid systems, the emphasis is on volume production, to achieve the economies of scale necessary to make operations profitable. Andfjord Salmon, for example, is building out a farm in Kvalnes, Andøya, Norway with the potential to produce 90,000 metric tons (MT) of head-on, gutted
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“Changing the way that people in the U.K. buy seafood,” is the bold ambition from acclaimed restaurateur, chef, and author Mitch Tonks.
Tonks, CEO of the Rockfish Group, which operates a chain of seafood restaurants and fish shops in the south of England, kicked off 2022 with the launch of “Rockfish Seafood at Home.” The venture, which will be a “fishmonger for the 21st century,” is the result of a COVID-19
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SalmoTerra is the latest company to announce plans for a land-based salmon farming facility in Norway.
Phase one construction of the company’s first fish farm will start in early 2022, at Øygarden, near Bergen ...
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Plans for the U.K.’s largest shrimp farm were released earlier this month by start-up company Land Ocean Farm.
Land Ocean Farm aims to grow whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in a biosecure, land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), eventually producing 1,000 metric tons (MT) of shrimp per year. The company is actively fundraising to finance the first stage and hopes to start construction in early 2022 at a site in Cheltenham,
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Threetimes and Lighthouse Finance have invested in Open Ocean Andalusia, a new project to install an offshore aquaculture platform to grow seriola (Seriola dumerili) more than six miles off the southeast coast of Spain ...
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Unchecked global warming could reduce global aquaculture production by as much as 16 percent by 2090, a new study from the University of British Columbia Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries shows.
Marine aquaculture, or mariculture, could double its output by 2050, from a current 30 million metric tons (MT) per year live-weight to 74 million MT, but UBC’s researchers modeled that estimate against climate change scenarios and found
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