Barramundi

Barramundi Group – which farms in Singapore, Australia and Brunei – has announced today the appointment of Vincent Erenst to the role of chief operating officer of production.

Jack James, founder and CEO of Pontus Research*, talks about his company’s new Singapore operation, the challenges of founding a business, and how the aquaculture sector can help to revitalise post-industrial Wales.

The Barramundi Group, which aims to be the world’s largest producer of Lates calcarifer, today announced its admission to the Euronext Growth Oslo exchange.

Petros Thomas, who’s Greek and been in the marine aquaculture sector for 32 years, is currently working as assistant general manager and production operation manager for the Tabuk Fisheries Company in Saudi Arabia.

The Barramundi Group - which has farms in Singapore, Brunei and Australia - has announced its intention to launch an offering of shares and to list its shares on Euronext Growth Oslo.

The Kazakh government has announced plans to produce up to 10,000 tonnes of barramundi a year.

A new $4.9 million hub to improve the productivity of aquaculture in northern Queensland has been launched in conjunction with James Cook University this week.

The Yield Lab has announced the eight startups selected to participate in its Global Aquaculture Challenge (GAC) 2021 – a non-profit accelerator programme and competition.

Andreas von Scholten, CEO of Barramundi Group, talks about the future of aquaculture, the importance of vaccines and building the company’s ground-breaking operations in Brunei.

Eight urban aquaculture projects are among the 12 projects chosen to receive a share of $23 million in funding from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA).

Plans to create a pure breeding line of the rare and highly prized gold barramundi have been revealed by scientists at James Cook University (JCU).

A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia found that processing organic food waste with black soldier fly larvae produced high quality aquafeed for rainbow trout and other key aquaculture species.

Plans to establish a tropical aquaculture accelerator in Queensland by James Cook University (JCU) have been given a boost by an election commitment of $67 million by the leader of the Liberal National Party.

A new tool to help barramundi farmers predict and maximise growth rates has been launched by Skretting today.

India’s first Asian private seabass (Lates calcarifer) hatchery has been set up by three graduates from the Mangalore Fisheries College.

Results from a pilot barramundi farming project in India shows that they can be a profitable species for the country’s aquaculture sector.

Northern Australian aquaculture is set to increase its production five-fold and exceed $1.34 billion (US$886 million) in value within the next decade.

An Australian company is currently looking for investors into a $65 million RAS system that will be capable of producing up to 2,400 tonnes of barramundi and steelhead a year.

Hoping to develop optimal aqua feed for commercial Barramundi, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has announced a research partnership with Barramundi Asia and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL).

A project billed as "Singapore's first-ever smart floating fish farm", which is equipped with a S$1 million integrated artificial intelligence (AI) and video analytics system to detect fish health and growth rates, was o…