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Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods, which is using fermentation to develop seafood alternatives with a realistic taste and texture, has launched in Chicago this week.

A range of new plant-based ingredients that have been designed for the alternative seafood sector has been launched in Germany today.

Women in Scottish Aquaculture (WiSA) has revealed plans for a new online forum designed to connect more than 300 members, promote diversity, and highlight the range of opportunities for women in the sector.

The US soy farming sector has reinforced its “commitment to shaping a growing and sustainable aquaculture industry” through assembling a new Global Aquaculture Industry Advisory Council with representatives from academia…

BioMar, has expressed its belief in the growth of Ecuador's shrimp farming sector by launching an ambitious plan to ramp up production of shrimp feed from its mill in Guayaquil to 200,000 tonnes a year.

A startup that has edited the genes of red sea bream so that they produce a thicker fillet has announced plans to start selling the fish in Japan.

A new fish farming method that uses converted shipping containers has been developed by Finland’s Natural Resources Institute (LUKE).

The lack of policy support for small-scale fisheries and aquaculture is undermining food security for millions, say researchers with the Blue Food Assessment.

After a summer of scorching temperatures, mussel farmers across the Aegean Sea are finding more empty shells, telling Reuters that the crop, “boiled in their own environment”.

A novel way of monitoring structural stress using fibre optic technology is going to be trialled on one of the world's most exposed fish farms, Salmar's Ocean Farm 1.

A project that aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to predict harmful blooms (HABs) of marine algae has been awarded £200,000 funding.

Coral Vita, a startup that aims to regenerate coral reefs through aquaculture, has been selected as one of 15 finalists for the inaugural £5 million Earthshot Prize.

Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed producer in the US, has secured a new funding round, led by Desert Bloom Food Ventures, a fund investing in, and supporting, dynamic food companies.

A new joint venture between Lagos State Government and Dula Agro-Services Limited aims to establish an aquaculture hub that produces enough feed and fingerlings to provide for 5,000 new smallholder farmers.

Scoular, one of the world’s largest feed ingredient suppliers, has launched a new fishmeal brand – called Encompass – as it seeks to aggressively expand in the aquafeed sector.

All the salmon in Atlantic Sapphire’s Danish facility are thought to have been killed after a fire broke out in the building yesterday.

Tributes have been paid to one of Washington state’s true aquaculture stalwarts, Dan Swecker, who passed away on 1 September, following a brief illness.

WorldFish nutrition expert Dr Shakuntala Thilsted has won the 2021 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for her pioneering nutrition-sensitive approaches to fisheries and aquaculture systems that ​​honour local, culturall…

New research into the genome of the kuruma shrimp (Marsupenaeus japonicus) could pave the way for breeding programmes that make it less susceptible to diseases such as white spot.

Recent reports have called into question the role that standards like those set by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) play in fish farming, but ASC Australia’s representative Duncan Leadbitter, says certification …