Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

How a novel technology is improving barramundi production on a former pig farm in the US.

Blue Aqua Singapore has announced an investment of SGD $ 8.8 million from Muscat Investment House, in order to build the city state's first high-tech rainbow trout farm.

Portuguese software startup Sensaway* recently landed EEA funding, which could not only help the company develop its software, but also improve the European aquaculture sector – both in Portugal and further afield.

The UAE's Ocean Harvest has hired Atlantic Sapphire's Bruno Sardenberg as director of production as the firm comes closer to scaling land-based salmon production in the Middle East.

The Kingfish Company has announced that it has received a permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers for its new facility in Jonesport, Maine.

High-efficiency recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and integrated wastewater solutions could move the aquaculture sector to a low-input and circular model of fish production, according to industry insiders.

Ramon Perez, co-founder of Alpha Aqua, produces RAS units, with a twist – focusing mainly on designing modular systems for both cold and warmwater species.

Norway's Salmon Evolution has increased its long-term production target to 100,000 tonnes and embarks on new farming operations across the Atlantic.

Ali Al-Shaikhi, the CEO of Saudi Arabia’s National Fisheries Development Programme (NFDP), announced that the kingdom is on its way to becoming a leading global aquaculture producer on 4 June.

A research partnership between Khon Kaen University and Thai Union Feed Mill has successfully trialled a new low-saline circulating system for farmed shrimp.

China has delivered the world’s first 100,000 tonne smart aquaculture vessel on 20 May in Qingdao City.

Yit Tung – who farms mud crabs, shrimp and tilapia in Malaysia – has no regrets about swapping a steady job as an engineer in the oil and gas sector for starting up his own aquaculture venture, RAS Aquaculture.

Dagón – Israel’s pioneering hatchery and leading fish farmer – offers a tantalising glimpse of how aquaculture in the MENA region is evolving and of the emerging species that have the greatest commercial potential.

The aquaculture arm of Iceland's Samherji has unveiled a $26 million capital increase and appointed former Mowi CEO Alf-Helge Aarskog to its board.

In a market announcement, land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire said that it plans to put its insurance pay-out from a fire at its Danish facility towards its new RAS in Florida.

The RAS Vanguard Standard has been released for public comment, with the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) announcing a 60-day comment period that ends on 4 July.

Increasing the size of post-smolts in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is not necessarily as wise as many in the salmon sector think, according to a leading aquaculture consultant.

ASC has today published a revised ASC Shrimp Standard, as well as new requirements specifically for recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farms.

A pioneering research project, designed to unlock the true potential of sustainable shrimp production in the UK using renewable energy technology, has received a multi-million pound funding boost.

Bendik Fyhn Terjesen, who is head of land-based innovation and development at Cermaq Group, will combine his work in Cermaq with a professor II position at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord University in…