Health message key to future salmon sales16 Jan 2019Salmon sellers must market their products as being “the leading healthy and sustainable protein and move away from being a ‘luxury’ product” if they want to continue to achieve high prices.
Aquaculture and the “Great Food Transformation”17 Jan 2019Aquaculture – unlike the production of red meat and dairy – has a key role to play in ensuring the world’s growing population receive sufficient nutrients, according to a ground-breaking new report on…
Women in Aquaculture: Yukiko Furukawa21 Jan 2019Seaweed aquaculture is prominent across Japan, but in the southern prefecture of Saga it has a particularly successful history. Home to seaweed farming for more than a century, Saga faces the Ariake …
Cutting aquaponics costs is more than pot luck30 Dec 2018Supplying cannabis for medical use in Canada – which is legal for licenced producers – is a competitive business. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Green Relief Inc uses fish in an innovative aquaponics sys…
Mitsui invests $100 million in Minh Phu shrimp15 Feb 2019Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co has committed $100 million to Minh Phu Seafood Corporation, Vietnam’s largest shrimp processing company.
Vietnam sets $10 billion aquaculture export target15 Feb 2019Vietnam aims to increase the value of its aquaculture exports by 10 percent next year, reaching $10.5 billion.
More records tumble in salmon sector14 Feb 20192018 was a record year for SalMar, with operating revenues in excess of 11.3 billion kroner and an Operational EBIT of almost 3.5 billion kroner.
Near-record year for Mowi13 Feb 2019Mowi reports that profits (EBIT) for 2018 were €753 million, making it the group’s second-best year ever financially.
Record year for Norway Royal Salmon12 Feb 2019A record fourth quarter helped make 2018 the most profitable year in Norway Royal Salmon’s history.
Women in aquaculture: Atsuko Nozaki13 Aug 2018Atsuko Nozaki has been growing and selling oysters in Japan's Okayama Prefecture for 46 years and is now the face of the family aquaculture business.
Why shrimp producers must learn from salmon sector16 Aug 2018Shrimp producers and processors must learn from the salmon sector by diversifying their product range and increasing demand if they are to avoid a prolonged price crash, according to a new report.
Should trout be sold as salmon?14 Aug 2018Chinese authorities have ruled that rainbow trout can now be labelled and sold domestically as salmon.
Moving cod in mysterious ways 3 Jul 2017Live capture of cod, which can then be sold off-season at a premium price, is currently gaining ground in Norway.
Successful start for Scotland's native farmed salmon strain10 Jun 2018The Scottish Salmon Company's plans to produce a unique strain of robust but slow-growing salmon – developed from wild Hebridean stocks – are now coming to commercial fruition, in a project that’s win…
Algae can spearhead a culinary revolution 29 Sep 2017Revolutionary substitutes for salmon and tuna, made from marine microalgae, are due to be launched commercially in the EU next year, thanks to the development of novel technologies by a team of French…
Scots firm scoops first for farmed mussels27 Sep 2017A Scottish company is the first in the world to obtain the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) Bivalve Standard Certification for responsible farming of blue mussels.
Oven-ready aquaculture17 Aug 2018How a simple but effective development in smoking technology is helping to reduce fish waste and the use of firewood in the Niger Delta, while simultaneously adding value to farmers’ fish
Sustainable Aquaculture courses at the University of St Andrews: a students perspective29 Aug 2014SponsoredSCOTLAND, UK - Aquaculture Student Ellen Ashford talks to TheFishSite about her recent experience of studying for the St Andrews Postgraduate Diploma course in sustainable aquaculture.
Probiotic effect of Streptomyces Strains with Bacillus and Lactobacillus in juvenile white shrimp16 Jan 2017M. Garca et al, Centro de Bioactivos Qumicos, Universidad central de Las Villas studied the effect of two Streptomyces strains alone or combined with Bacillus and Lactobacillus probiotics, over the gr…
Eurotier report: CID Lines launches Bioprotexion12 Nov 2008SponsoredGERMANY: Hygiene solutions company CID LINES launched a new programme for food safety on farm in the Bioprotexion Box at EuroTier.
Fish farmers to benefit from state-of-the-art diagnostics lab in Chile8 Apr 2016SponsoredCHILE - International aquaculture-health company Fish Vet Group (FVG), part of the Benchmark Group, has rolled out its fish-health offering to customers in South America with the launch of a 13,500-sq…
Processor eyes farmed whitefish sector26 Feb 2018In a move that suggests an increased focus on the farmed whitefish sector, Marel Fish has appointed Diego Lages as its new sales director for Marel Fish.
Don’t bypass the value of aquaculture by-products14 Feb 2018The Scottish salmon farming industry could generate an additional £23.7 million a year if it used its salmon by-products more judiciously.
Shedding light on fish fillet quality24 Jan 2018An advanced light meter could revolutionise fish processing by improving the utilisation of individual fish and the profitability of fishing and aquaculture companies, according to Nofima.
Brexit threatens Scottish seafood processing sector4 Jan 2018Around 58 percent of employees at Scottish seafood processing businesses are from the non-UK European Economic Area, a new report has found.
