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Pacific Hybreed has secured a $800,000 investment which will allow it to increase production capacity and execute the next phase of its breeding programme to enhance the resilience and supply of commercially important bi…

Graduates are being invited to apply for two fully-funded MSc places at Swansea’s Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research (CSAR).

Salmon Scotland, a trade organisation representing the Scottish salmon farming sector, has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands over the Crown Estate Scotland's (CES) announcement of significant…

Benchmark Genetics strengthens its core aquaculture genetics team by hiring Dr Grazyella Yoshida and Hans Ekvall for its head office in Bergen.

Applications are open for Hatch’s second Hawaiian Innovation Studio, which is designed for early-stage startups in the global aquaculture and alt-seafood sectors.

Seafood People has announced that the former executive director of the Alaska Marketing Seafood Institute (ASMI), Alexa Tonkovich, will join its Global Executive Advisors Network (GEAN) as an executive partner.

The Fishackathon challenge gathers innovators from around the world to build technical and digital solutions to address aquaculture's nutrition and health challenges.

The WorldFish Board of Trustees has appointed Dr Essam Yassin Mohammed as WorldFish’s new Interim Director General from January 2022.

Moleaer, a company that develops industrial-scale nanobubble generators, is looking to recruit a technical sales manager to expand its footprint in the European aquaculture sector.

An initiative project that was established to improve the sustainability of Hainan’s tilapia farming sector is rapidly gaining momentum and attracting interest from across China.

The organisers of Aquaculture Canada and WAS North America 2022 have confirmed that the in-person conference is officially set to take place on 15-18 August, in St John’s, Newfoundland.

Vedrana Tomljanovic works as the lead aquaculturist for FTN AquaArt AG, one of Switzerland's leading indoor aquaculture firms.

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) has received a $500,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to establish a comprehensive aquaculture workforce training system to support th…

GenoMar has hired Thea Luz Pineda as tilapia breeding manager for its Asia Pacific operations, which are based in the Philippines.

Offshore salmon farming pioneer SalMar Aker Ocean has hired Roy Reite as CEO.

The United Nations is formally recognising the crucial role artisanal aquaculture and fisheries play in global food security by launching an international year.

Though insect protein startups are generating splashy headlines and bringing new players into the aquafeed industry, single-cell and microbial proteins might be a key feed component in the future.

Nigeria’s catfish farmers consolidated their unification following a meeting earlier this month at the Obasanjo Conference Centre at Abeokuta, Ogun State.

A blind taste test conducted by the University of Copenhagen shows that Danes prefer the taste of both conventionally and organically farmed smoked salmon over wild-caught – as long as they don’t know how it’s produced.

Kenya-based insect farmer, aquaculture consultant and entrepreneur Proscovia Alando aims to establish the largest fish farming operation in East Africa, in a bid to improve prospects of the region’s women and youth in pa…