Tag: Shellfish Farming
Study reveals low carbon footprint of NZ farmed shellfish. A just-released study by sustainability experts thinkstep-anz has found New Zealand-farmed shellfish have among the lowest carbon footprints of all animal proteins, similar to the footprint ...
Orkney Shellfish Hatchery’s first stock of native flat oyster spat released into Scottish seas. Orkney Shellfish Hatchery, a multi-species aquaculture hatchery supplying premium shellfish products to the restoration and farming markets, has seen its first stock of native flat oysters released into the ocean, ...
Resilience funding helps Scots shellfish producers. Seafood resilience funding has helped cover some of the costs of maintaining small shellfish businesses impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and EU Exit. We caught up with some businesses ...
Study confirms restorative aquaculture has positive impacts on marine life. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the world’s leading conservation organisation, has released a ground-breaking new study that provides strong evidence that shellfish and seaweed farming are ...
Shellfish take to the open seas: Innovative farming develops with EU funding. Shellfish farming is an important component of the EU aquaculture sector. Yet, lately, its growth has slowed down due to global competition, saturation ...
The low environmental impact of shellfish (and the future of aquaculture). Could pescetarianism be the new veganism? Here, Barry Crackett, from specialist industrial and farming brushware supplier Brushtec, outlines the low environmental impact of shellfish ...
SAIC introduces … Umitron. In the latest ‘SAIC introduces’ instalment, we would like you to meet Umitron: a Singapore- and Japan-based company focused on developing solutions for aquaculture that utilise IoT, AI, and satellite remote ...
Mussels that grow from strength to strength. Shock waves rippled through the local community when the ArcelorMittal Saldanha steel mill in South Africa was closed in 2020. Citing severe financial losses, the mill, situated approximately ...
Great British Prawns collapses due to COVID-19. A pioneering aquaculture firm which launched Scotland’s first ‘green’ prawn farm two years ago has collapsed, according to an article on BBC News Scotland. Stirlingshire-based Great British Prawns ...
Australia’s first ever certified carbon neutral shellfish. Australian company Harvest Road Oceans, through its brand Leeuwin Coast, has become the first aquaculture brand in Australia with officially certified carbon neutral aquaculture products as part of ...
Innovative new ‘Shellfish Tower’ solution for open ocean farming. A recently published study has shown that an innovative new open ocean aquaculture structure is a promising solution for marine farming of shellfish and other species in exposed ...
Orkney Shellfish Hatchery sees first lobster hatchings. Orkney Shellfish Hatchery, which forms part of the Cadman Capital Group’s Aquaculture portfolio, has announced the successful hatching of its first run of European clawed lobsters for 2021, ...
A Meeting of Minds An online event to celebrate Scotland’s aquaculture sector ‘A Meeting of Minds’ will be staged on Zoom on Thursday 26 November 2020 from 10:30 to 12:00. Lochaber Chamber of Commerce, in ...
Scottish Aquaculture Funding Boost – European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Funding to help Scots aquaculture businesses affected by COVID-19 Scottish shellfish growers and trout producers will receive a share of £800,000 of funding to help ...
Environmentally Friendly Shellfish Catching and Farming. A leading supplier of specialised wire mesh products for fishing and aquaculture reinforce their innovative products for marine applications. With consumers increasing demand for seafood driving the growth of the ...
The round goby – a small, extremely prolific, invasive fish from Europe – poses a threat to endangered freshwater mussels in north-western Pennsylvania’s French Creek in the USA, one of the last strongholds for two ...
Pacific Oyster Health Meeting – The Marine Institute’s Fish Health Unit recently held a meeting on Pacific Oyster Health, presenting the latest research and knowledge on oyster diseases. The event attracted more than 80 participants ...
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