Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

A €75 million scheme to produce up to 10,000 tonnes of sole in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) in northern Spain has been announced today.

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

Benchmark Genetics is one of the main suppliers of salmon ova for land-based production facilities – both RAS and flow-through – around the world. This has given them a unique insight into how the sector is developing, a…

Columbi Salmon aims to harvest 12,000 tonnes of salmon and 4,000 tonnes of salad leaves a year by 2025, at a site in the Belgian port of Ostend. Kolbjørn Giskeødegård, CFO of the startup, explains their unique production…

Robins McIntosh, executive vice-president of Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP) and CEO of Homegrown Shrimp, explains a novel means of microbial management in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS) and how this is helping him …

Plans to streamline the application process for establishing new fish farms, and to support the establishment of more RAS facilities, including those producing tropical species, have been outlined by the SNP today.

LocalCoho, which farms Coho salmon in a recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) in upstate New York, has launched an inventive new fundraising campaign.

Atlantic Sapphire has reported another significant mortality incident this week at its Miami recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) facility.

New research into disinfection practices in land-based recirculation salmon farms in Norway and North America could be used to create new standards to increase effectiveness and prevent outbreaks of disease.

The first batch of shrimp broodstock destined for a new aquaculture facility in Oman have arrived in the country this week.

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.

NaturalShrimp has announced that it is ramping up shrimp production at its patented RAS facilities in both Texas and Iowa.

World Heritage Salmon (WHS), which aims to produce Atlantic salmon in a former mine in Norway, has entered into a five-year contractual agreement with Benchmark Genetics.

An eight-storey fish farm that is currently being developed by the Apollo Aquaculture Group in Singapore is due to start operations in the first quarter of this year.

A majority stake in CrustaNova, the pioneering Bavarian shrimp producer, has been bought by a group of investors advised by Rigeto.

The aquaculture industry could soon be producing Pacific bonito, a small tuna species, after wild-caught specimens were able to successfully spawn in an RAS.

Grieg Seafood has become the first mainstream salmon producer to invest in an RAS site that will grow salmon to market size on land.

Kana Banno, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) talks about her transition from aquaculture in Japan, to that of Norway and why fish behaviour and welfare are so important in salm…

The high energy demands of recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facilities are not necessarily as economically and environmentally onerous as some critics claim, according to a new study.

In a follow-up to his initial piece on the subject of RAS, Andrew Leingang covers key elements including species selection, staffing and fish health.