Fisheries

Ittinsect, a Rome-based biotech startup, is developing a range of high-performance aquafeeds based on insects, microalgae and agriculture by-products to replace the use of ocean-sourced fishmeal in aquaculture.

Analysis from Rabobank notes that high prices for competing commodities is supporting prices for fish meal and fish oil – but this support may ease slightly further into 2023.

Scottish salmon farmers have launched a new fund to help the country’s wild salmon through habitat protection, restocking programmes and protection from predators.

Small pelagic fish should play a larger role in directly tackling malnutrition and food insecurity in the Global South, rather than being rendered into fishmeal, according to a new study.

A new study suggests that oyster reef restoration rapidly increases marine biodiversity, but increased restoration effort is needed to eliminate historical damage to these valuable ecosystems.

Aquaculture’s growth rate peaked in 1996, and now it’s in decline, according to a newly published paper by researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

The links between food system sustainability, nutrition and public health concerns cannot be ignored at a time when governments, industries and the civil society are gathering in Egypt for COP27.

Scottish seafood producers are taking advantage of a new early warning system that helps identify and share data on harmful marine organisms near the coast - helping the aquaculture industries keep ahead of climate press…

The Panama small pelagics fishery and its associated fishmeal and fish oil production sites are the first to have gained approval and certification following their journey on the MarinTrust Improver Programme

5,000 yellowtail kingfish fingerlings grown in the Western Australia’s marine finfish hatchery in Fremantle have been released off the Perth coast.

The F3 – Future of Fish Feed announced today that three animal feed manufacturers – Star Milling Co, Empagran and Jiangsu Fuhai Biotech Co, Ltd – each won a $100,000 prize in the F3 Challenge - Carnivore Edition.

MarinTrust, which aims to improve the sustainability of reduction fisheries, has just released its 2021-2022 report, offering insights into the trade in fishmeal and fish oil – two of the most valuable bulk aquafeed ingr…

Oban-based Tritonia Scientific, an underwater 3D imaging firm, is partnering with researchers at Heriot-Watt University’s Lyell Centre, SAIC and Mowi to create 3D digital models for seafood producers to map and monitor c…

A kelp farming project is among the 14 to be awarded a share of $9.9 million under the latest disbursement of the British Columbia Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BCSRIF).

A new study outlines how reducing the amount of marine-derived natural resources such as fish meal and fish oil in the diet of farmed Atlantic salmon will allow the sector to keep growing into the next century.

A abalone farming facility with the capacity to produce 600 tonnes per annum has been officially opened in Oman.

Contestants competing in the F3 Challenge – Carnivore Edition have sold a combined total of over 3,185 metric tonnes of fish-free feed.

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) claim to have “developed the first squid aquaculture system that has the potential to be commercialised”.

Canada’s minister of fisheries, Joyce Murray, released a proposal for British Columbia's aquaculture sector to "adopt alternative production methods that minimise or eliminate interactions between farmed and wild salmon"…

A British startup and its Chilean strategic ally are in the process of developing a 174 metre mobile fish farm that could be capable of producing up to 5,000 tonnes of salmon per cycle.