Archive for June 2019
Ace pair put Prince in the picture at Palace
PRINCE Charles learnt about welfare improvements on fish farms when Dundee based business Ace Aquatec paid a visit to Buckingham Palace yesterday. The aquaculture technology company won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, its second in two years, for developing a humane electric stunner. Ace’s head of sales and marketing, Mike Forbes, went to…
Read MoreFinding out fish farm facts on FaceTime
SCHOOLCHILDREN in England are being taught about salmon farming in Scotland thanks to an initiative called ‘FaceTime a Farmer’. Pupils at Washingborough Academy in Lincolnshire were paired with Mowi Scotland and taken on a virtual tour of the company’s Inchmore hatchery. Mowi’s Jayne MacKay, who hosted the call with the class of nine and ten-year-olds, said…
Read MoreCrown Estate shake-up empowers local communities
LOCAL communities will have more say in how the seabed and coastline is managed as changes to the Scottish Crown Estate come into force. Crown Estate Scotland launched the Local Pilots Management Scheme in 2018 to create opportunities for organisations to get more involved in managing Crown assets. Four communities – Orkney Islands Council, Shetland…
Read MoreBakkafrost’s ‘clever way’ to create 40% growth
THE Faroe Islands’ biggest salmon farmer, Bakkafrost, expects volume growth of 40 per cent over the next four years, CEO Regin Jacobsen said today. The increase of 22,000 tonnes, to 76,000 tonnes, will be driven partly by larger smolt and the newly developed Suduroy cluster of farms in the south. When Bakkafrost’s Strond smolt plant…
Read MoreWorld first for ASC approved King Kampachi
A KAMPACHI farm in Mexico has received Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification, a world first for the species. The farm, 6km offshore in the Gulf of California, near La Paz, rears kampachi in submersible cages. The fish – also known as yellowtail or almaco jack (Seriola rivoliana) -are grown in four 10,000 cubic metre pens,…
Read MoreNew anchors a ‘breakthrough’ for farm growth
INNOVATIVE anchoring technology could help the aquaculture industry site farms in new and bigger locations and support future growth in the sector. The new technology is being developed in Scotland by a consortium of engineering experts, who say it could also enhance farms’ environmental impact. Sustainable Marine Energy, the tidal energy technology specialist; the University…
Read MoreBerlin showcase for aquaculture start-ups
AQUACULTURE start-ups have a unique opportunity to meet investors at a special innovation forum being held during the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) conference in Berlin this autumn. The EAS brings together the international aquaculture community at its annual events, which feature a multi-disciplinary scientific conference alongside a trade fare and business meetings. This gathering of…
Read MoreSkretting backs black soldier fly feed
FEED giant Skretting today signed a deal with insect meal producer Protix that could see up to 5.5 million salmon servings a year with the alternative protein in the diet. News of the agreement came as Protix officially opened its state-of-the-art insect production facility in Bergen op Zoom, in the Netherlands. The event was attended…
Read MoreFirst bass and bream farms win ASC approval
FOUR farms in Turkey and Greece have become the first in the world to be certified to the ASC’s new sea bass, sea bream, and meagre standard. Two farms operated by Nireus in Greece and two operated by Sursan in Turkey achieved certification at the same time on June 5. The ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council)…
Read MoreHow UK can narrow global ‘protein gap’
AN insect feed lobbying group has called on the UK government to support the growth of its sector, which it said could help narrow the global ‘protein gap’. The Insect Biomass Conversion Task and Finish Group (IBCTFG) said the insect for feed industry could transform agri-food productivity in the UK. The sector could be worth…
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