The ₹12.21 crore ($1.7 million) Nile tilapia hatchery project is expected to produce seeds for fish farmers from Kollam and neighboring districts.
Hideyoshi Segovia-Uno was promoted as general manager at Spring Genetics, Benchmark Genetics USA’s tilapia business.
The new system offers a holistic vision of all production management, combining a quality product with specialized advice and the management of integrated field technologies.
Innovations in production technology for off-shore pen farming and land-based production set new demands to Benchmark as a genetics supplier.
The facility will include a hatchery, nursery and full grow-out areas, as well as management, operational and processing zones.
MAT Filtration will build a new RAS hatchery facility to produce cod larvae for release in the Baltic Sea.
The project will test five fish species, salmon, arctic char, seabream, seabass and Seriola, in RAS facilities and will try to solve different challenges such as microbial management, water quality and fish welfare.
Genetirate developed a technology capable of identifying and sorting aquatic animal species (fish, crustaceans and mollusks) by their metabolic rate.
Jimmy Lim, founder and president of the Institute of Aquaculture Singapore and industry veteran passed away on February 5.
SalMar partnered with Krüger Kaldnes and constructing partner Consto to build the world’s largest smolt hatchery in Tjuin, Norway with a total area of 17,000 square meters.
The University of Bergen and Pure Lobster will use Ocean On Land Technology hatchery products to test the potential of land-based farming systems for this species.
The company invested in the Norwegian land-based fish farming company, Proximar, that will build a large-scale RAS salmon facility near Mount Fuji to meet the large demand for salmon in Japan.
Marine scientists in Scotland developed a way of creating “designer algae” that could signal a breakthrough in how shellfish larvae can be produced for the aquaculture industry.
BAP is seeking certified producers to collaborate on a pilot program that assures that their farmed seafood has been produced without the use of any antibiotics.
Laboratory tests and field trials demonstrated increased survivability of approximately 30% for the tilapia selected for streptococcosis resistance.
ICAR-CIBA successfully bred grey mullet for the first time in the country and released species-specific functional pelleted feeds for broodstock.
The Aussie government will upgrade purpose-built, pilot-scale hatchery facilities to produce selected seed of multiple shellfish species, such as tropical rock oysters, scallops, clams and abalone.
Virbac signed an agreement with TransAlgae to shape the future of vaccination in the field of aquaculture with its disruptive microalgae-based oral delivery technology.
The companies predict that the technology will become a valuable component of integrated management strategies on-farm with both feed and water applications under investigation.
Eggs by natural spawning were obtained from wild-caught broodstock that were conditioned to captivity for more than one year in a 75 m3 RAS in Chile.
