Hatcheries

Hoopers Island Oyster Co, in Maryland, has reported the completion of its first seed spawn of the season, and expect to soon have seed for sale to fellow oyster farmers along the Atlantic seaboard.

Nick James, the founder of South Africa’s legendary Rivendell Hatchery, looks back on a colourful aquacultural career as he prepares to put his life’s work on the market.

The need to halt the decline of yield per fry was the central theme of a presentation on Mediterranean finfish hatcheries which was given by Isabel Represas at INVE’s customer seminar in Crete.

Ocean Matters, the Welsh lumpfish farming company, has reported that it produced over 2 million cleaner fish during 2019.

A programme to seed up to a million salmon egg in rivers in north east Iceland has been launched this autumn.

Oceano Fresco, which aims to create a hatchery for the pioneering production of at least two clam species native to western Europe, has attracted a €2.7 million investment.

Benchmark is due to receive US$8.75 million and sole ownership of the Ensenada broodstock facility as its joint venture with AquaChile comes to a close.

Over 80 delegates from 15 countries attended INVE’s second European Customer Seminar, which was held in Crete on 25-26 September.

Giving the correct diets to fish in their early life stages has long term benefits, explain INVE in the second of two articles on their Fry 2.0 initiative.

European seabass and gilthead seabream form the backbone of Mediterranean finfish aquaculture. While both species account for around 12 percent of the EU’s total aquaculture production they each represent 22 percent of t…

Benchmark has been given the opportunity to take sole control of the salmon breeding operation in Chile that it currently jointly owns with Agrosuper.

Benchmark’s state-of-the-art egg production unit opened to much fanfare at Salten today.

Singapore’s largest barramundi farm has plans to triple its output, by investing $2 million (US $1.48 million) in its hatchery operations.

One of the oldest marine finfish hatcheries in Europe has also become one of the most innovative, following a change of ownership in 2016.

Joana Amaral would like to use her 20+ years of experience in marine hatcheries to help encourage the complete replacement of live feed for larval finfish, a goal that she’s currently working on with BioMar.

During his 45 years at Ardtoe Marine Laboratory Jon Sherwood – one of the unsung heroes of Scottish aquaculture – has been quietly involved in all manner of pioneering fish-farming projects

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

Natalie Clark, nursery manager at Hoopers Island Oyster Co in Maryland, explains how plans to reseed the Chesapeake Bay with 10 billion bivalves have not only given her a dream career, but can also help restore the healt…

Pavlina Pavlidou, technical consultant for Selonda Aquaculture in Greece, talks hatcheries, heroes and an eye-opening experience in Hainan