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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Major aquaculture operations and retail companies are setting high targets in the next decade to push the industry’s boundaries on sustainability as it relates to novel feed ingredients, energy efficiency and the reduction of carbon emissions, and worker voice and social equity.
In a virtual Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership (GOAL) conference panel on Wednesday, sustainability heads from several companies came together to explain
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While aquaculture companies around the globe have different approaches to raising seafood, there are common threads that bring different production systems together: the need for increased control across the board and the industrialization and automation of day-to-day operations.
In a Global Aquaculture Alliance presentation focused on paradigm shifts in aquaculture production systems – which took place at its virtual Global Outlook for
The three finalists of Global Aquaculture Alliance’s eighth annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award have been named ahead of the selection of a winner at this year’s Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership (GOAL) Conference.
Nuseed’s omega-3 feed product Aquaterra, University of Stirling researcher Simao Zacarias’ shrimp eyestalk ablation research, and American Plains’ plant-based protein alternative
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today that it will hold a public comment period on Hawaii-based open-ocean mariculture start-up Ocean Era’s Velella Epsilon project off the coast of Florida.
Ocean Era’s Florida pilot project, Velella Epsilon, would be located 45 miles southwest of Sarasota. The project would farm 20,000 almaco jack, a fish native to the Gulf of Mexico, in one net-pen. The project recently received a
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to Hawaii-based open-ocean mariculture start-up Ocean Era, bringing the company one step closer to raising fish in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ocean Era’s Florida pilot project, Velella Epsilon, would be located 45 miles south west of Sarasota. The project would farm 20,000 almaco jack, a fish native to the Gulf of Mexico, in one
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Evermore Global Advisors, an investment adviser to hedge fund Evermore Global Value Fund, has acquired 88,775 shares of Atlantic Sapphire
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LocalCoho, a coho salmon recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) operation in the U.S. state of New York, has secured USD 4.6 million (EUR 3.9 million) in its Series A round of investment ...
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Atlantic Sapphire has issued a private placement of its Oslo, Norway-listed shares, raising NOK 906 million (USD 100 million, EUR 84.6 million) through a private placement of 8.87 million new shares ...
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Norwegian land-based aquaculture firm Atlantic Sapphire announced Wednesday, 9 Septpember its chief financial officer, Jose Prado, left his position sometime within the past month, soon after the company’s second-quarter results were released. The results publicized significant cost overruns at its recirculating aquaculture system farm under construction outside of Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
The announcement came with news
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shut down seafood processing plants, stalled commercial fishing seasons, gutted the foodservice industry, and put aquaculture operations at risk. One of the most heavily hit companies in the aquaculture industry might be Norwegian aquaculture firm Atlantic Sapphire, which has run into plenty of road bumps getting its U.S. recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farm off the ground in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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