Health & Welfare
Biotech-feed giant partnership to explore bacteriophage potential
Fish health and welfare in aquaculture could soon be assisted by the most abundant organism on the planet, if a new partnership nets its intended result.
Innovation & Investment
Proteon Pharmaceuticals poised to grow its bacteriophage products for aquaculture
Bacteriophage producer nets €21 million to accelerate the commercialization of its products, which aim to reduce antibiotic usage in aquaculture.
Health & Welfare
Gotta halve it: Inside the Chilean salmon industry’s efforts to slash antibiotic usage
Innovations in broodstock, farm and production management could cut antibiotic usage by Chile’s salmon farming industry by 50 percent in five years.
Intelligence
GOAL 2020 Day 1: Aquaculture addressing the world’s ‘most fundamental challenge’
GOAL 2020 keynote speaker Peer Ederer says the solution to closing food security gaps doesn’t include abandoning animal proteins and finger pointing.
Intelligence
10 takeaways from GOAL 2019 in Chennai, India
The Global Aquaculture Alliance held its GOAL conference in Chennai, India, and recruited a host of experts in various fields to share their expertise.
Health & Welfare
Efficacy of natural products and antibiotics in shrimp hatcheries
This study evaluated through in vitro analyses the antimicrobial effectiveness of natural products used for P. vannamei bacterial diseases and antibiotics against pathogenic Vibrio strains circulating in Ecuadorian hatcheries.
Health & Welfare
Researchers examine antimicrobial resistance potential in aquaculture
The influence of antibiotics in fish and their effects on the gut microbiome aren’t well understood, says research team examining antimicrobial resistance.
Intelligence
Unified marketing strategy for shrimp inches forward
The Shrimp Forum returned to SENA with insights into innovations in production, the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a unified marketing approach and a forecast from India.
Health & Welfare
Organic acids in aquafeeds: A potential substitute for antibiotics
Prophylactic use of antibiotics in animal production is being banned or restricted by many countries. A potential substitute for antibiotic growth promoters in aquafeeds is organic acids, which are the focus of much research and commercial interest.
Health & Welfare
Evaluating effects of organic acids in Nile tilapia feed
A study tested the effects of a commercial product that includes three organic acids incorporated into a commercial feed for Nile tilapia fingerlings.
Innovation & Investment
Microalgae into medicine: Biotech startup targets shrimp, salmon diseases
MicroSynbiotiX is employing the power of transgenic microalgae to make it cheaper and easier for aquaculture producers to administer vaccines to fish.
Intelligence
Non-compliance on EU antibiotics order may cost India shrimp industry
India, now the world’s top farmed shrimp exporter, may lose access to the European marketplace by 2018 due to ongoing issues with antibiotics.
Innovation & Investment
At seafood investor forum, a ‘blue-sky’ outlook and a search for the next salmon
At the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum in New York, “all roads lead to salmon.” Buoyed by high prices and soaring demand, the sector is an example worth following. But it’s not without its challenges.
Innovation & Investment
Salmon farmers limiting time at sea for biological risk mitigation
Land-based aquaculture, perhaps the ultimate environmental risk-mitigation tool, was the talk of the town at the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum. Once scoffed at for high capital and energy requirements, RAS now has a crowded bandwagon.
Aquafeeds
Mixing Cost Center is at the heart of feed manufacturing
Ingredients that are properly proportioned and mixed for an adequate mixing time are very important to assure the manufacturing of aquafeeds that meet the standards for the shrimp species and life stage for which the formula was designed.
Innovation & Investment
Results of the GOAL 2016 audience poll questions
Each year the attendees of the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s GOAL conference – held in September in Guangzhou, China – have the opportunity to answer poll questions posed by speakers and moderators of panel discussions.