Sam Hill is a freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon, and covering the U.S. aquaculture industry for SeafoodSource. He also writes about technology and internet culture with bylines in Outside Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Outline, and Motherboard.
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The Good Food Institute, a U.S. nonprofit that promotes plant-based alternatives to meat, dairy, and eggs, as well as cultivated meat, has entered two separate partnerships to advance research in cellular aquaculture ...
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With no commercial fishery in sight in upstate New York, Finger Lakes Fish is aiming to fill the fresh fish gap with farm-raised coho salmon.
Working in a 43,000-square-foot recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility in Auburn, New York, U.S.A., the company plans to hit full capacity in July of this year: 2,000 market-ready fish a week, or 450 tons annually. Right now, the company has two raceways – tanks of oxygenated water 6-feet
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Atlantic Sapphire, which is planning a massive land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., was approved to receive up to USD 5 million (EUR 4.6 million) in local incentives to expand its facility and create more than 200 jobs.
The Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners approved a resolution authorizing funding through the county’s Targeted Jobs Incentive Fund, an inducement program for
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AquaBounty has raised about USD 15.5 million (EUR 14.4 million) following the completion of a public stock offering last week, not including expenses
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Founded in 2016, land-based salmon farmer Pure Salmon may be relatively new to the aquaculture sector. But its founders are aiming to become the leaders in global salmon aquaculture in due time.
Pure Salmon is owned by private equity funds managed by Singapore-based 8F Asset Management, a private equity manager focused on impact investing. Pure Salmon has invested in a huge expansion of land-based salmon farming around the world,
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With both aquaculture standards and fisheries management practices improving steadily, panelists at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Global Aquaculture Alliance said it is time for the seafood industry to call a cease-fire in the “wild versus farmed” debate and launch a joint effort to increase U.S. seafood consumption across the board.
The debate, titled “Come Together: Uniting the Wild and Farmed Seafood Sectors,”
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Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) recently released its long-delayed "State of Salmon Aquaculture Technologies" report to the public , breaking down the future of salmon aquaculture operations in British Columbia and what the country can do to accelerate the growth of the sector …
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… Read More The phase-out of open net-pen aquaculture operations in British Columbia was an action Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party bullish on prior to Canada’s federal election last fall, but the issue has faded into the background in the months following Trudeau’s win, and the path forward remains unclear for the province’s industry ...
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Jim Wyban, a prominent shrimp researcher and owner of consultancy Marine Genetics LLC, believes a shrimp aquaculture boom could be on the horizon – if someone can crack the code to turning a profit while competing with foreign imports.
In the 1990s, Wyban led the development of a specific pathogen-free (SPF) shrimp broodstock as the principal investigator of the U.S. Shrimp Consortium at Oceanic Institute, subsequently doubling the
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Janet Mills, the governor of the U.S. state of Maine, recently announced a 10-year strategic economic development plan to grow the state’s economy, and has included aquaculture as a target industry to support and cultivate. The plan is designed to combat poor economic growth in the state caused by lethargic gross domestic product, a shrinking workforce, and subpar state wages.
“This strategic plan creates a road map to foster
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