News feed - AquaHoy

Nutreco sets out bold new strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

Nutreco today announces the rollout of its sustainability strategy through to the end of 2025. This five-year strategy, called RoadMap 2025, includes Nutreco’s commitment to ...

Study uncovers spawning preferences of Mahi-mahi

By Diana UdelMiami, USA – In the Florida Straits at night, and under a new moon is the preference for spawning mahi-mahi, according to a ...

OIE-WAHIS is live: discover the new platform!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that OIE-WAHIS, the new online notification application from the OIE, and its public interface, is now officially ...

Bringing Artificial Intelligence to artisan fishing with DeepFish

Almost all commercially exploited species do not achieve the Good Environmental Status (GES). With the aim of identifying species, obtaining their sizes in the fish ...

Salmon smolt grow more rapidly if their feed contains hydrolysed krill protein

Norway – Experiments conducted at Nofima show that salmon smolt that eat feed containing hydrolysed krill will eat considerably more and their weight will increase ...

USC scientists may have unlocked kelp’s potential as a major biofuel source

By Gary Polakovic*USA – Using a “kelp elevator,” researchers at the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies were able to grow the biofuel crop in ...

ARS Announces Winners of Innovative Challenge to Preserve Flavor of Catfish

USA – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and HeroX today announced the grand prize winners of a competition that invited the ...

Updated BAP Farm Standard Includes New Requirements on Antimicrobials, Social Accountability, Wildlife Protection

Issue 3.0 of the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Farm Standard has been released to the public, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced on March 1.

Stressed-Out Young Oysters May Grow Less Meat On Their Shells

Early exposure to tough conditions—particularly warmer waters and nightly swings of low oxygen—could leave lasting scars on oysters’ ability to grow meaty tissue. A team ...

Trophic levels are an ‘insufficient’ measure of sustainability for today’s aquaculture policy

By Sonia Fernandez*Santa Barbara – Born in food web ecology, the concept of trophic levels — the hierarchy of who eats who in the natural ...