Sam Hill

Sam Hill

Reporting from Portland, Oregon

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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January 20, 2021

BlueNalu, a cellular aquaculture producer start-up based in San Diego, California, U.S.A., announced the closing of USD 60 million (EUR 49.6 million) in debt financing from new and existing investors this week ... 

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January 18, 2021

Poseidon Ocean Systems, a Canadian developer of salmon farming infrastructure and life support systems, has raised CAD 5 million (USD 3.9 million, EUR 3.2 million) in Series A financing to pay for engineering costs and delivering new technologies to market ... 

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January 7, 2021

Atlantic Sapphire has finished construction at the first phase of its Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility and is projected to harvest 10,000 metric tons of salmon annually once commercial harvests commence, expected in September 2020 ... 

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December 24, 2020

In the face of climate change, North American seafood packaging producers are taking steps to reduce their respective carbon footprints while simultaneously moving to enhance and implement responsible practices – all in an effort to secure a sustainable future for the planet and the industry …

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December 15, 2020

AquaBounty Technologies announced this week that the company has grossed approximately USD 65.2 million (EUR 53.6 million) from an underwritten public stock offering last week ... 

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December 10, 2020

AquaBounty Technologies announced this week that Innovasea, a global leader in advanced aquatic solutions for aquaculture, will provide the recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) technology for the land-based salmon company’s third fish farm ... 

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November 16, 2020

Oslo, Norway-based aquaculture firm AquaCon ran into a snag last week in its ongoing effort to build a 1.2 million-square-foot aquaculture facility in Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.A.

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November 9, 2020

AquaBounty Technologies is facing another legal battle over its AquAdvantage salmon, as a California court ruled last week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving genetically engineered salmon for sale and consumption.

On 5 November, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled the FDA ignored serious possible environmental consequences by approving genetically engineered salmon, and was also

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Published on
November 4, 2020

AquaBounty Technologies released its third-quarter financial results, along with a corporate update, this week – indicating a minor loss in its third-quarter earnings as the company moves toward the first harvest of its genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon and continued scaling of its operations ... 

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October 19, 2020

University of Stirling postdoctoral researcher Simão Zacaria has won this year’s eighth annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award for his research on shrimp eyestalk ablation practices, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced on 19 October.

“It is an honor to win this prestigious award, mainly as the first African to get it. This award reminds me to never give up in chasing my dreams even when they seem impossible,”

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