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Norwegian seafood exports total NOK 99 billion in 2018

Norway has exported 2.7 million tonnes of seafood to reach a new record of NOK 99 billion in 2018. This represents a volume increase of ...

Almost every brand of tuna on supermarket shelves shows why modern slavery laws are needed

Australia.- What is the chance the last tin of tuna you ate was made using slave labour? If it came from Thailand, the odds may ...

NYP Develops Fish Vaccine for Vietnam’s Fish Farm

Singapore.- NYP has developed a fish vaccine to reduce mortality rates in one of the biggest fish farms in Vietnam, Hiep Thanh Group Fish Farm. ...

BioMar icon Niels Alsted retires after 45 years in aquaculture

Denmark.- Niels Alsted, Executive Vice President of Business Relations in BioMar, nicknamed ‘Mr Aquaculture’ by his colleagues has retired after 45 years of service in ...

EU Awards €2 Million to HiSea Project to Provide High Resolution Data on Sea Water Quality

Delft, Netherlands.- The European Union (EU) has awarded the HiSea consortium close to €2 million to develop, test and demonstrate information services that provide high ...

2018 Refusals of Antibiotic-Contaminated Shrimp in Line with 2017

USA.- For the month of December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that 3 out of the 78 (3.8%) total seafood entry line ...

Asian aquaculture: trends for 2019

Aquaculture and environmental consultants Jonah van Beijnen and Gregg Yan outline some of the key developments they expect to take place in the Asian aquaculture ...

Strengthening integrated aquatic plant and animal farming in the rice fields of Lao PDR

Italy.- Lao PDR enjoys a rich aquatic biodiversity, with rice fields acting as an environment that is home to an impressive diversity of aquatic organisms. ...

Slime proves valuable in developing method for counting salmon in Alaska

Corvallis, USA.- Scientists have published a novel method for counting Pacific salmon – analyzing DNA from the slime the fish leave behind in their spawning ...

With €5 billion sales and profits doubled, EU aquaculture has fully recovered from downturn

The 2018 Economic report of the EU Aquaculture Sector shows a strong and growing sector. In 2016, the EU aquaculture sector has produced and sold ...