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Super Foods Peru brand to launch at Seafood Expo Global

Brussels, Belgium.- Peru’s Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) will today launch Super Foods Peru brand at the 2017 Seafood Expo Global, thus promoting the ...

International collaboration gives better fish farming

For Norway to be the best at closed-containment systems (CCS) of salmon, we need knowledge from the best of the best. Norway’s researchers are now ...

CFIA approves camelina oil for use in Atlantic salmon feed

Halifax, Canada.- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved the use of mechanically-extracted camelina oil as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon and trout.

Genome sequence of fuel-producing alga announced

USA.- The genome of the fuel-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M ...

NOAA Fisheries Scientists Spawn Pacific Sardines For The First Time In Captivity

USA.- Biologists at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) have cracked the code for how to spawn Pacific sardines in the laboratory, opening a ...

A DNA based tool for tackling operational and environmental challenges in aquaculture

Stavanger, Norway.- The project combines eDNA-based assays, which are related to specific species, and the Environmental Sampling processor (ESP), to provide a new generation instrument ...

How quickly should fish be processed?

Norway.- Whether fish is processed before or after rigor mortis can be significant for the quality of the fish product. What is best depends on ...

Spain: Fish and Seafood Market Brief

USA.- Spain is one of the largest markets worldwide for fish and seafood. In 2016, Spain was the fourth largest importer of fish and seafood ...

A warning and an improved PCR detection method for tilapia lake virus (TiLV) disease in Thai tilapia farms

Thailand.- Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a novel RNA virus resembling Orthomyxovirus. It has been reported as a newly emerging virus that causes syncytial hepatitis ...

Bioeconomy: insect meal as a sustainable aquaculture feed

Berlin, Germany.- Around half of the world’s fish consumed comes from aquaculture production. But in order to effectively relieve aquatic ecosystems, fish farming needs to ...