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iFarm will transform fish farming from stock management to individualized farming

Norway.- The Directorate of Fisheries has found that Cermaq’s iFarm concept to be within the scope of the Norwegian development licenses system. Cermaq has applied ...

Salmon stakes: Risks for the Tasmanian salmon industry

Canberra, Australia.- Salmon farming is a hot topic in Tasmania. The industry is responsible for over 2% of Gross State Product and over 1% of ...

BAP Certifies First North American Salmon Smokehouse

USA.- Congratulations to The MacKnight Food Group. The company’s smoked salmon processing plant in Miami, Florida, has attained Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the first ...

Micro solutions for a macro problem: How marine algae could help feed the world

By William Moomaw and Asaf Tzachor*Our planet faces a growing food crisis. According to the United Nations, more than 800 million people are regularly undernourished. ...

Wisconsin Sea Grant research explores walleye for aquaculture

By Aaron ConklinMore than a thousand walleye are in the six sets of circular water tanks at the UW-Stevens Point Aquaponics Innovation Center in Montello, ...

Chinese Hairy Crab Farm Attains BAP Certification

USA.- Add hairy crab to the list of species represented in the industry-leading Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) third-party certification program.

Caged blue mussels as environmental detectives

Norway.- Two researchers in a boat loaded with thousands of blue mussels, collected from a mussel farm in Lillesand. The boat heads out the Kristiansand ...

A Big Step towards Reducing Strep in Farm-Raised Tilapia

USA.- The United States annually imports nearly $1 billion worth of tilapia while producing another 30 million pounds ourselves. This makes tilapia the U.S.’s fourth ...

Phages an effective alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture

Spain.- Researchers from AZTI, Biopolis S.L. (Spain), University of Aveiro (Portugal) and the Aguacircia Aquaculture company (Portugal) have evaluated the impact of the use of ...

Concentrated CO2 accelerates growth of algae

The Netherlands.- A new air capture technology, developed by the University of Twente, captures CO2 from atmospheric air in a cheap and efficient way. The ...