Fisheries

Mowi and ScaleAQ sign a contract to supply five new feed barges.

Vietnam and Thailand must accelerate reducing "the massive overcapacity" of their fishing fleets, according to a new report on South East Asian fisheries and their relevance to fishmeal production.

A programme to seed up to a million salmon egg in rivers in north east Iceland has been launched this autumn.

The Humane Slaughter Association is offering up to £200,000 in funding to encourage the development and adoption of humane slaughter methods for wild-caught fish.

European eel stocks have been increasing at “a statistically significant rate” since 2011, according to an independent report published today.

The Antarctic Southern Ocean krill. krill fishery – which provides raw materials for the aquafeed industry – is the only reduction fishery on the planet to receive an ‘A’ rating from the Sustainable F…

Many traditional farmers in West Bengal have diversified into shrimp aquaculture. But while it has made some farmers rich, others have found it has put their livelihoods – and perhaps even their lives…

Although 88 percent of the fishmeal and fish oil sourced from European and Latin American reduction fisheries comes from stocks that are at least “reasonably well-managed,” there remains "a critical n…

Dongwon’s Tropical Pacific yellowfin and skipjack free school purse seine fishery meets international standards for sustainability

Veramaris has won the F3 Fish Oil Challenge in a challenge that has saved "2 billion forage fish from use in aquaculture feeds

Skretting has allocated $2 million for the development of novel aquaculture feed ingredients in 2020 as it bids to help create effective alternatives to the use of “finite marine ingredients” such as …

A new report by the Dutch-based Changing Markets Foundation claims that retailers, including top UK supermarkets, are linked to “illegal, unsustainable fishing operations in India, Vietnam and The Gam…

On the day that Eels: Biology, Monitoring, Management, Culture and Exploitation, is launched, The Fish Site caught up with Paul Coulson, who co-edited the book with Andy Don, to find out more about th…

A new manual to help people restore damaged shellfish reefs has been published by The Nature Conservancy today.

The Indigenous Monitoring and Inspection Plan (IMIP) establishes a formal process for First Nations oversight of fish farms operating in the Territories of the ‘Namgis, Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis, and …

While aquaculture is often associated with degrading water quality, invasive species introductions and the destruction of important coastal habitats, increasing evidence suggests that well-designed an…

Claims that escaped salmon are able to wipe out “10,000 years of evolution” by interbreeding with wild salmon have been rejected as “hyperbole” by the head of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Associat…

Wider application of genetic improvement in aquaculture, with a focus on selective breeding, will help boost seafood production without the need to hugely increase the volume of inputs – including fee…

The importance aquaculture will play in helping to provide protein for the growing global population was emphasised at the 10th session of the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, which started in Trond…

One of India’s largest shrimp producers, CP Foods, has pledged to join the IFFO RS Improver Program (IFFO RS IP) this year, which would make it the first company in the country to apply for the intern…