Category: Aquaculture
Lack of housing in rural areas a pressing concern, committee told. Covid has exacerbated Scotland’s rural housing crisis, Scotland’s farmed salmon trade body has told the Scottish Parliament. Tavish Scott, the Chief Executive of the ...
Call to better understand fish farm emissions. Farmed Scottish salmon has a similar carbon footprint to chicken meat, a study by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has found. Farmed salmon produces the same amount of greenhouse ...
Aker BioMarine strengthens its team. Marine biotechnology executive, Ragnhild Dragøy, joins Aker BioMarine as Director of Sustainability and Marte Dalsegg, the company’s former Content Manager, will take over as the new Communications Director. As the ...
New chairman for Grobest Group. Grobest Group Limited has announced the appointment of Ko Chi-Kang as Chairman of its Board of Directors, effective 1st July. Ko, the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Grobest Group, ...
Bakkafrost announces sustainable growth plan, with new profitability strategy for Scotland and associated investments. • 40% sustainable growth over the next five years • Significant investment programme in Scotland to transform operations through innovative RAS ...
Insect protein has great potential to reduce carbon footprint. When compared to feeding insects to farm animals, the direct human consumption of insects has the biggest potential to reduce our consumption-based carbon footprint. Researchers at ...
AquaBounty Technologies to present at upcoming Investor Conferences in September. AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQB) (“AquaBounty” or the “Company”), a land-based aquaculture company utilising technology to enhance productivity and sustainability, will participate in the following ...
BioMar reaches 1 million tonnes of salmon feed with microalgae. This month BioMar hit a major sustainability milestone with the adoption of microalgae omega 3s into feed diets. Marine ingredients are a finite resource and ...
RAStech hosts RAS Connector Series Roundtable Panels. RAStech will hold the second of three virtual events in its RAS Connector Series tomorrow, Sept. 14, 2021. This second virtual event, titled ‘RAS Roundtable Panels’, will consist ...
Producing salad from water emitted from salmon farming. Columbi Salmon, NIBIO, Morefish, and BioMar, have conducted a study which concludes that there is great potential in growing plants in the same system as fish. The ...
Grieg Seafood joins consortium for low-emission aquaculture. Grieg Seafood has joined forces with 17 leading industry and research institutions in push to develop low-emission offshore aquaculture. The consortium aims to reduce the environmental impact and ...
New sustainability manager for Skretting. Skretting has announced the appointment of Jorge Diaz as Sustainability Manager – a dynamic role that supports the company’s top-priority sustainability agenda, and which also complements the roll-out of Nutreco’s Sustainability Roadmap 2025 with ...
Scottish salmon has “huge opportunities around the world” says Liz Truss following SSPO-Mowi Visit. The Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss MP, visited Mowi’s salmon processing facility at Rosyth last week. The Scottish ...
NaturalShrimp acquires Hydrenesis Aquaculture. NaturalShrimp, Inc. a Biotechnology Aquaculture Company that has developed and patented the first shrimp-focused, commercially operational RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture System), has closed the previously announced acquisition of the aquaculture assets of ...
Public input sought on new issue of BAP Hatchery Standard. Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Hatchery Standard Issue 2.0 is now available for public comment, the Global Seafood Alliance announced on Sept. 8. The 60-day public comment ...
First place for Angelo in Half Marathon medal competition. Angelo Arwen has been crowned the winner of The Scottish Salmon Company’s (SSC) medal competition, in partnership with Skye Events. His winning design will now feature ...
Nova Austral adheres to the Global Compact. Nova Austral formalised its adhesion to the Chile Global Compact Network, making it the second salmon company in the country and the first Magellan company to join this ...
South Australia aquaculture industry reaching new heights. The value of South Australia’s aquaculture industry has grown to $229 million in 2019-20, however the value of commercial fisheries has slightly decreased, with the release of two ...
Andfjord Salmon completes construction of first pool. Norwegian land-based salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon has completed its first pool and is progressing with its 50 percent production volume expansion plan at its Kvalnes facility. Additional financing ...
First sole harvest for Stolt Sea Farm at new Tocha Site. Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) has reached another milestone with its first harvest of sole at its Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) farm in Tocha, Portugal, ...
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