Archive for January 2022
Fish farmers hope for success at the Lantra awards
Three aquaculture trainees are among the shortlisted contenders for this year’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills, organised by rural skills body Lantra Scotland. The three are Emily Underhill, a Freshwater Fish Health Biologist with Scottish Sea Farms; Derek Ferguson, who is on a Technical Apprenticeship in Aquaculture Management with Grieg Seafood; and Emmanuelle Rey,…
Read MoreAtle Eide joins tilapia farmer’s board
A leading figure in the world of salmon farming has joined the board of African tilapia producer Lake Harvest. Atle Eide, formerly Chairman at SalMar Group, has been named as Non-executive Chairman at the company. Lake Harvest is one of the largest integrated aquaculture companies in sub-Saharan Africa and was recently boosted by an investment…
Read MoreCell based lobster firm snapped up
Upside Foods, a US company specialising in the cell cultivation of meat, has moved into the seafood business big time by purchasing Cultured Decadence, a business which uses cell culture to make lobster and other crustacean meat. Cultivated seafood, which doesn’t involve the slaughter of fish, is a growing business in the US, and is…
Read MoreNTS rebels in new board takeover bid
The NTS aquaculture group saga took a new twist over the weekend with the news that another attempt is being made to reshape the company’s board of directors. A rebel band of shareholders known as the Rørvik group, which failed to take over NTS and oust its founder Helge Gåsø, his son Ander and the chairman Odd Reidar Øie 10…
Read MoreSeagriculture USA – 7-8 September 2022
Seagriculture 2022 USA gathers top speakers, who will share their know-how within seaweed for feed, food, offshore cultivation, biorefinery of seaweed and much more. This year’s conference will be held in Portland (ME), USA on 7-8 September 2022. The Seagriculture conference has built up a solid reputation as the leading conference for the Seaweed industry,…
Read MoreBC at the crossroads
The news in October that Joyce Murray had been appointed as Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the National Coastguard was greeted with warm words from the country’s fish farming industry. The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance issued a diplomatically worded statement congratulating Murray on her appointment. It said: “Our members would like to welcome the…
Read MoreNRS signals big rise in production for 2023
Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) is raising its harvest forecast for next year to 50,000 tonnes, representing an increase of more than 40% on the predicted figure for the current year, the company has told the Oslo Stock Exchange. NRS expects to harvest 35,000 tonnes (gutted weight) of salmon this year. The company is now part…
Read MoreSEPA grants licence for Loch Long Salmon’s semi-closed farm
The plan for Scotland’s first semi-closed containment marine finfish farm has taken a step closer to reality, following the granting of an environmental permit to Loch Long Salmon for a farm at Beinn Reithe near Arrochar, on the west coast of Scotland. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has granted an environmental permit for the…
Read MoreNew aquaculture tech conference set for late summer
A live international conference focusing on aquaculture technology is scheduled to take place in Norway later this year. A group of world leading players in Global Aquaculture Tech Hub (GATH) are arranging the three day event in the port town of Ålesund in central Norway between 6 and 8 September with the aim of addressing challenges facing the…
Read MoreBAP certification scheme grew 8.9% in 2021
The Global Seafood Alliance has reported that its Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification programme continued to grow even through difficult circumstances during 2021. Despite the continuing pandemic, the number of BAP-certified organisations grew by 8.6% to 3,169, across six continents and 39 countries. The programme also saw an improved retention rate of 93.6% in 2021,…
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