Øyvind J. Brevik will be responsible for fish health and welfare in all the global production units connected with the Benchmark Genetics breeding programs for Atlantic salmon.
Benchmark will supply genetics from their Icelandic facilities to a project in progress for a land-based RAS facility in Singapore.
Neotropical catfish (Pseudoplatystoma punctifer) is an important species for feeding the Amazonian population, with potential for the aquaculture market.
The company will continue to develop PatoGen as a leading provider of preventive and diagnostic analysis to the growing aquaculture industry.
The decision is taken based on a precautionary approach and to reduce risk, as the company will develop salmon farming operations in Placentia Bay gradually and responsibly.
Hector Xavier Valdez, based in Ecuador, and Manuel Zazueta, based in Mexico, will lead these important markets for INVE.
RASbiome aims to improve the sustainability of fish production in RAS by introducing new and innovative approaches for microbiological water treatment.
The company signed a contract with Cold Lake AB to deliver an Arctic char egg-to-harvest RAS facility with a production capacity of 4,000 tons per year.
Minnowtech was awarded a $999,780 grant that will focus on the development of its sonar-based product for the company’s upcoming commercialization stage.
The new farm will be the company’s first large-scale commercial facility, with a planned annual production capacity of 10,000 metric tons.
The program will go beyond shrimp farm-level improvements to safeguard the world’s remaining mangroves in Ecuador.
A new custom-designed research facility will be built to complement the existing on-campus hatchery at Fleming Collegue.
The farming of fast-growing, highly efficient aquaculture species that are able to resist impacts of costly diseases will soon become a reality, with James Cook University and partners awarded $4.9 million from the Australian Research Council through their Industrial Transformation Research Program.
The implementation of new technology at scale will is expected to increase national aquaculture production reducing operation costs and increasing farmers' yield.
The agreement will combine GAA’s aquaculture standards and expertise with FishChoice’s online platform designed to power progress on seafood sustainability.
AltaSea partnered with University of Southern California professor Sergey Nuzhdin to establish a seaweed lab to improve breeding non-GMO kelp and other seaweed varieties.
A study reported, for the first time, that breeders with a genetic background for deformities affect the spawning quality in seabream.
The new facility will have nearly double the capacity while reducing its overall energy consumption by up to 50%.
Innovative genetic tools to speed the breeding of North American Atlantic salmon are being made available to breeders in the United States for the first time.
The company reported a case of infectious salmon anemia in one Atlantic salmon parr at its Marystown hatchery, in Canada.
