Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

Whole Oceans has received approval for its plans to build a land-based salmon farm on the site of a former paper mill in Bucksport, Maine.

Texan shrimp producer NaturalShrimp has announced that its facility in La Coste is no longer under quarantine for infectious haematopoietic virus (IHHNV).

This year’s summit will bring expert insights on digital innovation, land-based aquaculture and genetic technologies from industry players like AquaByte, Kingfish Zeeland and Benchmark Holdings.

The use of aquaculture-derived waste products to grow secondary crops – such as used in biofloc systems or aquaponics – can increase profits by more than 20 percent, as some of the leading proponents of this field explai…

Soul of Japan, the Japanese arm of land-based salmon farming pioneer Pure Salmon, has secured an exclusive distribution agreement with the Japanese trading giant Itochu.

The benefits of RAS aquaculture in terms of efficiency and sustainability have prompted the Thai food giant’s decision to move all of its shrimp production indoors – and it’s doing so quicker than expected.

The contract for a farm in Qatar that has ambitions to produce up to 100,000 tonnes of shrimp a year has been awarded to ITQAN and Global Blue Technologies.

Following the strong global growth of land-based aquaculture, AKVA group has decided to form a land-based division in the Americas.

Plans to establish the first ever salmon RAS project in Africa - capable of producing 20,000 tonnes a year - have been announced by Pure Salmon

Dougie Allen, a co-founder of Great British Prawns, explains what inspired him to establish the UK’s first and only clearwater – as opposed to biofloc-based – shrimp farm.

The hyper-intensive production of tropical species might be a hard sell in the US, but a handful of companies have developed systems that have made successful leaps in the sector.

Pioneering aquaculture company Great British Prawns has announced plans to grow over a million vannamei shrimp per cycle in a dairy farm in Scotland.

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

The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s project manager in the Vic…

With Russia’s domestic fish market getting back on its feet, a martial-arts billionaire is throwing his weight behind RAS trout production.

During the four years since CtrlAQUA began, Dr Chris Good has seen US land-based salmon farming begin to flourish, with massive facilities being built.

AquaBounty is looking to raise $5.75 million through a share offering in order to help fund production at its facilities in Indiana and Prince Edward Island.

AquaBounty has been granted approval for the commercial production of its genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon at its Rollo Bay production facility on Prince Edward Island.

Aqua-Spark has today announced new investments in BioFishency, an innovator in water treatment systems for use in land-based aquaculture, and Molofeed, whose new formula can replace live feed earlier in the larval rearin…

Superior Fresh’s aquaponics facilty in Wisconsin is both the world’s largest aquaponics system and “the ultimate IMTA”, according to Dr Steve Summerfelt.