Nutrition

A new community development project has been launched to encourage Zambia’s tilapia farmers to operate more sustainably by using quality feed and fingerlings.

HATCH, the world´s first global aquaculture accelerator, is moving to Cork, Ireland, for its second cohort after a successful first one in Bergen earlier in 2018.

Due to concerns over the pollution they generate and the impact they have on local forage fish stocks and the fishermen who traditionally rely on them, in the last few weeks, fisheries representatives…

A new project investigating the use of camelina that has been genetically modified to contain high levels of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in salmon feed has been launched.

The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) has held the first meeting of its feed working group in Machala, Ecuador this month.

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has announced plans to acquire the French animal nutrition firm Neovia - which is a market leader in aquaculture feed in Brazil, Mexico and Vietnam - in a deal worth ​€1.5…

A project that is looking into to both produce microalgae for fish feed and turn fish by-products into biodiesel is yielding promising results.

Dr Tibiábin Benítez-Santana, an aquaculture researcher with the Norwegian krill product company Aker BioMarine, is a firm believer that improved understanding of fish nutrition and metabolism can impr…

ADM has snapped up Probiotics International, the company best known for producing probiotic dietary supplements to both humans and livestock (including those produced by aquaculture), in a deal worth …

BioMar has opened a state-of-the-art marine fish larval trial unit for both larval rearing and the production of live feed.

INVE Thailand has become the first company in Asia to be allowed to export its Artemia cysts, feed and health products into Ecuador.

Feeding farmed salmon a mineral extracted from the bones of blue whiting can help them absorb the astaxanthin in their diets and therefore improve the colour of their fillets a new study has discovere…

BioMar has reached it sustainability targets regrading sourcing four out of five of their key raw materials for their fish feed products ahead of schedule, according to a new report.

The Bangla adage mache bhate Bengali – ‘fish and rice make a Bengali’ – sums up the importance of fish in the diet of Bangladeshis. But with capture fisheries in decline, Bangladesh is increasingly lo…

A conference to analyse the role of marine ingredients across the aquaculture and animal feed supply chains is being organised by IFFO in Rome this October.

How vertical integration and live fish sales have enabled Blue Ridge Aquaculture in Virginia to thrive in a market otherwise dominated by large-scale Asian and Central American tilapia producers.

Construction of a new mill capable of producing protein from ethanol for the aquaculture feed industry is nearing completion in Nebraska.

KnipBio has been awarded a grant to study how changes in diet can alleviate enteritis and other diseases in farmed rainbow trout.

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, genetics and advanced nutrition business, has recorded a £3.6 million profit for the six months up to 31 March 2018 – compared to a £8.2 million loss in the same per…

IFFO, the marine ingredients organisation, has announced the appointment of Petter Martin Johannessen as its new director general.