Awards

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 at Buckingham Palace in February.…

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.

The 2020 Aquaculture Awards have officially opened for entry today, allowing aquaculture companies from around the world plenty of time to prepare their entries and nominations before the 9 March 2020 deadline.

Dr Leighanne Hawkins of Cooke Aquaculture wins the 2019 Atlantic Canada Aquaculture Award in recognition of her contributions to advancing fish health in Canada's aquaculture sector.

A poster explaining the use of microsatellite markers to assess the survival of brown trout bred for re-stocking purposes has won this year’s Lindsay Laird Award.

INVE Aquaculture’s Frippak range – which can be used alongside Artemia for feeding larval shrimp – has scooped the award for the Best Functional Product in Chinese Aquaculture Feed Industry 2019.

Students were treated to some excellent news at today’s Aquaculture Europe, when Gavin Burnell announced that student membership of the European Aquaculture society would be free from now on.