Molluscs

The US National Oceaninc and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued its first round of funding for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme.

Ahead of the inaugural meeting of the World Aquaculture Society’s African Chapter, which is due to take place in Alexandria this month, Harrison Charo Karisa – one of the key organisers of the event – discusses the prosp…

Bernardo Carvalho, founder and CEO of Oceano Fresco, explains what drew him to clam farming, what makes the company unique and how Europe’s shellfish sector can reach new levels.

Having been inspired to start mussel farming by studies showing many potential benefits of bivalve aquaculture, fledgling farmer Jude Brown has been heartened by the results of her own research.

A $100,000 grant from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to jumpstart the shellfish aquaculture industry and water quality initiatives has been awarded to Ashley Smyth, an assistant professor of biogeochemistry and soil and wa…

Aaron Pannell of FlipFarm Systems, who has developed a semi-automated method for turning oyster-growing cages, has won the GOAL Global Aquaculture Innovation Award.

South Australia’s $229 million aquaculture sector has released an extensive data set alongside a state government report, outlining the industry’s activities and initiatives to tackle issues like marine debris and sustai…

Hatch* hopes its upcoming Women in Aquaculture Community Day on 22 November will inspire more female entrepreneurs to enter the aquaculture space.

NOAA has released two Atlases compiling the best available science to inform the identification of Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California.

Oceano Fresco hopes that its €6.1 million series B funding will bring it closer to producing European clam species at scale.

Analysis from the latest EUMOFA report on the EU Fish Market finds that aquaculture production across the EU has grown 11 percent between 2010 and 2019 while its value grew 40 percent.

NOAA Sea Grant and the Ocean Acidification Program awarded more than $2.4 million to support four projects that will address the impacts of multiple stressors on and increase resilience in shellfish aquaculture through r…

IntegraSEE’s CEO, Lawrence Taylor, explains how monitoring the behaviour of a handful of mussels in a MarineCanary unit can alert aquaculture operators to water quality issues, including pollution, pathogens and temperat…

Nueva Pescanova plans to invest over €50 million in a farm that’s capable of producing 3,000 tonnes of octopus per year.

Orkney Shellfish Hatchery has successfully secured funding for four new aquaculture graduate positions, after winning a Scottish educational grant, courtesy of the Highlands and Islands Enterprises’ Graduate Support Prog…

NOAA has announced $15.2 million in funding for research projects that mitigate the impact of harmful algal blooms (HABs) on sectors including aquaculture.

Food tech startup Aqua Cultured Foods announced today it has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round of $2.1 million, one of the largest pre-seed rounds for companies using fermentation for alt-proteins.

Solar Oysters’ novel automated aquaculture platform has been stocked with a fresh batch of 300,000 spat and launched into Baltimore Harbor.

Aquaculture researchers, companies and startups are being invited to submit proposals for the third round of the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF).

Three advocates of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) are using research in a bid to back up their beliefs in the values of the concept.