Technology & equipment

The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) has offered US $200 million investment in a project to improve the transmission and distribution of clean energy to 55,000 hectares of shrimp farms in Ecuad…

A transatlantic research partnership is developing a new tool which could improve the aquaculture industry's understanding of its impact on the environment and support its long-term growth.

AKVA announced today that it has won a tender for delivery of a new smolt facility to Russian Aquaculture, near Murmansk.

Minnowtech, which provides an imaging platform to enable shrimp farmers to optimise feeding, announced today it has been awarded a $225,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.

An innovative new anchoring technology which could allow Scotland's aquaculture sector to move into high energy marine locations is being developed by a consortium of engineering experts.

Gael Force Group has specified the compact Robox Aqua blower technology from Gardner Denver’s Robuschi brand, enabling it to overcome challenging space restrictions on the company’s marine feed barges…

Five fledgling aquaculture firms have reached the final of this year’s Aquaculture Innovation Challenge (AIC).

Big Data solutions in aquaculture could revolutionise the industry, making it safer, easier to manage and more productive. But there could be security and economic dilemmas with adopting digital techn…

A new salmon farming concept is expected to boost Norway’s salmon production in the face of increased demand, while ensuring high standards of safety and quality.

Atlantis Subsea Farming is kicking off their development project by using submersible pens in fish farming. The project will follow the life of fish in the deep.

With remote robots set to carry out more and more routine tasks and facial-recognition software being applied to salmon, automation is already making waves in aquaculture. But just how far, and how so…

Net pen specialist Gael Force Fusion has been successful in its bid to acquire the former premises of the Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary at Barcaldine – a move that could create eight more jobs in aquacu…

Akva has reported a 20 percent increase in net profits during the first quarter of the year, as well as a 45 percent rise in revenues.

Over 150 Thai shrimp farmers have signed up to a new collaborative data collection and sharing project that has been launched in a bid to reduce the impact of diseases on the sector.

Plans to establish a salmon farm from which no treatment residues are emitted yet is capable of being situated in “any exposed area along the whole Norwegian coast where the outer ocean currents flow”…

Mowi has applied for 36 development licences for an unmanned, undersea “AquaStorm” salmon pen concept.

A plan to establish a sea urchin and sea cucumber farm that is not dependent on human labour has been announced by Fujitsu Ltd.

A new cooperative research centre (CRC), that aims to develop offshore aquaculture facilities in conjunction with renewable energy production schemes has been launched today.

A young oyster producer in Maine, who is developing a patent-pending system to help automate the oyster harvesting process, has received $15,000 in prize money.

A new system to remove sea lice from salmon is set to be deployed in Chile after Cermaq signed an agreement with Sea Farm Innovations (SFI) to support the development of SFI's new system.