Health & Welfare
Breeding for behavior in pursuit of a better cleaner fish
Researchers are investigating the behaviors of cleaner fish like ballan wrasse and lumpfish, hoping to spur greater interaction with salmon.
Aquafeeds
TCFFI, Cargill partner to develop better feeds for RAS salmon
Land-based aquaculture research center partners with animal feeds giant to develop optimal feeds for Atlantic salmon raised in recirculating aquaculture systems.
Intelligence
Precision salmon: Optimizing welfare through data-driven insights
The GAIN project’s precision aquaculture series continues with a look at how data-driven insights into salmon behavior can aid farm management.
Innovation & Investment
Steel cage salmon farm designer ramping up with capital infusion
Poseidon Ocean Systems recently netted $5 million in funding to build inventory, enhance engineering and increase international sales efforts.
Innovation & Investment
Not RAS, not net pens: Salmon farm concepts redefine barriers
Sea lice, algae, temperature changes and escapes still vex salmon farmers, but new cage systems aim to surmount these concerns with innovative barriers.
Responsibility
In Japan, aquaculture is deployed in the defense of endangered species
Tokyo University researchers have learned to spawn fish from germline stem cells in vitro, a method that can be deployed to help endangered species.
Intelligence
Pandemic persists and Pacific NW shellfish sector digs in
Eight months into the pandemic, the gloom and doom has lightened and there’s hope in the air for the Pacific Northwest shellfish sector.
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.
Responsibility
In search of social license, new land-based aquaculture ventures confront a familiar foe: NIMBY
Recirculating aquaculture systems in theory solve many environmental impact issues, yet they're not immune to NIMBY (not in my backyard).
Intelligence
Provenance underpins branding of Japan’s Shinshu salmon
Shinshu salmon is promoted as a food typical of the mountainous prefecture of Nagano, which is aiming to capitalize on the popularity of salmon in Japan.
Innovation & Investment
A salmon farm in Dubai, because of course
Last year Dubai-based Fish Farm LLC sold the first batch of salmon to be born and bred in the United Arab Emirates. More are certainly coming.
Intelligence
GOAL 2019: Revisión y pronóstico de la producción mundial de peces
Los datos de la encuesta anual de producción GOAL de la Alianza Global de Acuacultura muestran que la producción de peces marinos cultivados aumentó un 73 por ciento de 2009 a 2019.
Intelligence
GOAL 2019: Global finfish production review and forecast
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s annual GOAL production survey data shows that farmed marine finfish production increased 73 percent from 2009 to 2019.
Intelligence
La tecnología de transparencia pone a la acuacultura en el pie delantero
Un número creciente de productores acuícolas están descubriendo que tecnología fácilmente disponible puede ayudarlos a compartir abiertamente sus jornada desde el huevo al plato.
Innovation & Investment
Asesinos en el mar: floración de algas nocivas y su impacto en la acuacultura
Las causas y los efectos de los florecimientos de algas nocivas solo se han estudiado recientemente, a medida que aumenta su daño a la industria mundial de la acuacultura.