Events

Ireland’s fourth entrepreneurial aquaculture and alternative seafood programme is currently open to applications from researchers, inventors, startups, entrepreneurs and established companies in these sectors or adjacent…

F3 Webinar: emerging trends in alternative feeds for carnivorous fish

Aquaculture Africa 2021 is set to go ahead in the Egyptian port of Alexandria, from December 11-14, according to the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS).

Major aquafeed companies and producers are set to discuss emerging trends in fish-free feeds for shrimp in a webinar scheduled for 15 July.

Dr Anna Silvia Pedrazanni, fish vet and key partner in Brazil’s Tilapia Welfare Project, discusses welfare, fish health and how Brazil has the potential to become the world’s top tilapia producer.

Brazil is set to be the third largest tilapia producer in the world within the next decade, predicts Renato Morandi, production manager at GeneSeas.

The International Gill Health Conference, which will see the aquaculture industry combine its expertise and knowledge to tackle one of the salmon sector’s biggest challenges, is due to take place on 26-27 October.

The latest in a series of webinars organised by the team behind the F3 Challenge, which is focusing on emerging trends with alternative feeds for salmonids, will be live streaming on The Fish Site on 17 June.

The inaugural global tilapia aquaculture series is due to launch on 28 July, with an online event - in Portuguese - tailored to the Brazilian tilapia sector.

Hawaii’s Big Island is due to reinforce its reputation as the epicentre of US aquaculture research, following the award of a $1.8 million grant and the announcement of a brand new aquaculture innovation studio.

A two-week capacity building workshop on the breeding, on-growing, processing and marketing of catfish has just finished in Lagos.

The build-up to the UN’s inaugural Food Systems Summit is the perfect time for aquaculture producers to promote the role that blue foods can play in supporting the SDGs.

Niall O’Rahelly, who has extensive international aquaculture experience, has been hired as Hatch’s aquaculture community manager to generate and promote innovation in Ireland’s aquaculture industry .

A panel of leading policymakers and researchers has emphasised the value of diverse aquatic foods as key components of sustainable healthy diets and as drivers of food security in the Global South.

Poseidon Ocean Systems, ThisFish and Industrial Plankton receive honours at Aquaculture Innovation Awards in British Columbia.

A webinar looking at how the shrimp sector can become more sustainable through the use of novel feed ingredients took place on 11 May.

Despite the recurring presence of Covid-19, the organisers of Aquaculture America have declared that the event will indeed take place in San Antonio, Texas, on 11-14 August.

Applications are open for a part-time workshop in Hawaii which is aimed at startups in the global aquaculture and alt-seafood sectors.

Many critics of land-based salmon farms believe that their higher stocking densities threaten fish welfare – but, according to the CEO of Salmon Evolution, this may not be the case.

Collaboration between researchers and industry players is essential for the sector’s continued growth, according to key figures in the 37-year relationship between INVE (Benchmark Advanced Nutrition) and Ghent University…