Awards

The first six companies to registration for the latest F3 Challenge – which is offering three $100,000 prizes for the makers of fish feed containing no fish – have been revealed.

A number of fully-funded places on masters degree courses at Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture are being offered to women from Southeast Asia.

A project to recycle waste from a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) into nutrient-rich agricultural fertiliser has won an environmental business award.

Innovative companies involved in shrimp feed production and adding value to fish processing by-products have been recognised in India’s 2020 National Fisheries Awards.

Evans Danso, CEO of Flosell Farms, a tilapia hatchery and farm in the Volta Region, has been deemed to be Ghana’s best fish farmer of 2020.

The project that is investigating the use of tilapia skin in human medicine has won a €500,000 prize.

Offshore Shellfish, creators of the UK’s first fully offshore mussel farm, have won Best Aquaculture Company at the 2020 Aquaculture Awards.

The 2020 Aquaculture Awards, which were due be included in Aquaculture UK 2020, are now going to take place in a virtual ceremony on 16 September 2020.

Kvarøy Arctic and the James Beard Foundation have teamed up to launch a women in aquaculture scholarship that’s worth $10,000.

A project that uses sophisticated software to assess feed attractability in vannamei shrimp has won one of this year’s three hotly contested Nutreco Young Researchers Prizes.

The Scottish Salmon Company has become the first salmon producer in Europe to be recognised with a 4-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

AlgaPrime DHA, the omega-3-rich algae feed ingredient, has been given an honourable mention in the food category of Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Five scholarships on the MSc in Sustainable Aquaculture at the University of Plymouth are now being offered for 2020-2021.

An impressive range of companies, research organisations and individuals from around the world have made the shortlists for the 2020 Aquaculture Awards.

Five start-ups looking to break into the aquaculture sector have made the final 15 of the Nutreco Feed & Food Tech Challenge (NFTC), after being whittled down from a field of 112 applications.

The judges for the 2020 Aquaculture Awards, which are due to be presented at a special ceremony in May, have been announced today.

The distinguished accolade – part of the UK honours system – was announced during a special reception at St James’s Palace this evening [November 21] and will be officially presented by senior members of the Royal Family…

A facility that converts dead salmon into biogas has helped the Outer Hebrides Local Energy Hub (OHLEH) win this year’s Scottish Environment Business VIBES award.

Cutting-edge aquaculture companies Aquaai, Montana Microbial Products and Australian Crayfish Hatchery won three of the six categories in Fish 2.0’s final round of Top Innovator awards.

VakSea, which bio-manufactures functional feed additives for fish and shrimp, has won the won the AquaSG ‘19 conference Aquaculture Innovation Challenge.