Hatcheries

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

XpertSea, a Canadian company which uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to count and size early-stage aquatic organisms such as shrimp larvae and live feed, announced today that it has raised $10 million CAD …

TomAlgae, the feed firm specialising in the production of freeze-dried algae to be used as feed in shrimp and oyster hatcheries, is looking to crack the North American oyster market.

A new study suggesting ways in which Scottish mussel growers can step up their production levels has been published today.

The £1.7 million Stepping Stone mussel hatchery project in Shetland is showing very encouraging results, reports Tom Morton.