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“The world’s leaders in land-based aquaculture” are due to feature at the 2020 RAS Virtual Summit.

Faroese kelp farming firm Ocean Rainforest, which is also conducting cutting-edge trials in California, has announced the closure of a $1.5 million funding round this week.

Researchers are raising concerns over the scope of current sustainability certification schemes in the aquaculture sector – saying that they could be overly focused on environmental and governance indicators.

A detailed breakdown of the impact that Covid-19 has had on Ghana’s fish farmers has been presented to the country’s fisheries minister.

ASC certification has led to a clear improvement in the environmental performance of shrimp farms in Vietnam, as well as salmon farms in Norway, Canada and Chile, according to a new report.

Plans to establish an extensive network of aquaculture facilities in US federal waters have potentially suffered a major setback, following a decision by a Louisiana court.

The first ever analysis using the “One Health” approach to identify strategies by which nations can grow their aquaculture sectors sustainably has been published this week.

The governments of the five largest shrimp producing nations have been urged to take increased and immediate action to address the continued outbreak and emergence of new diseases in shrimp farms.

Merk’s head of aquaculture, Dr Chris Beattie, will take up a position as Akva’s regional business director North America and Australasia on 1 September.

A form of canola that’s been genetically modified so that it contains omega-3 oil, has been approved to be grown and consumed - both by farmed fish and humans - in Canada.

Mowi has recently harvested its first organic salmon in Scotland, following certification of its Loch Ewe site by the Soil Association.

Assessing the value of a company’s broodstock is now possible, following the launch of a new service from Xelect.

By capitalising on its geography and adopting a “blue growth” economic policy, Bangladesh has become the fifth largest global aquaculture producer – and is expected to keep growing.

New methods for performing freshwater treatments against sea lice and amoebic gill disease (AGD) in salmon farms have been successfully developed and trialled in Ireland.

The Ocean Conservation Trust has now planted the first seeds in its seagrass cultivation laboratory at the National Marine Aquarium, as part of a major £2.5 million habitat restoration project funded by EU LIFE and led b…

A recently developed on-farm detection kit for piscirickettsiosis (SRS) can confirm the bacteria’s presence within 90 minutes and might help reduce the impact of a disease that costs the Chilean salmon industry $750 mill…

Atlantic Sapphire has been forced to initiate an emergency harvest of 200,0000 part-grown salmon from its Florida facility after the fish were thought to be suffering from construction-related stress.

Fisheries and aquaculture byproducts and insect meal have a bigger role to play in the sustainable growth of the aquafeed sector over the next two decades than microbial or macroalgal-based feed ingredients.

A $29 million project to develop and commercialise world-class solutions for monitoring fish health, fish movement, and the environment – in a bid to make marine sectors, including aquaculture, more sustainable - has bee…

Gael Force Group, the supplier of products, technology and services to the global finfish aquaculture sector, has announced the launch of a new integrated range of HD camera technology products under their SeaSight brand…