Diamond V has appointed Serge Corneillie, Ph.D. to the position of Senior Consultant, Technical and Business Development, Asia. \"Serge is bringing tremendous experience to our team with more than 30 years of experience in aquaculture research and business development in Asia. In his new role, Serge will oversee Diamond V businesses in Japan and South Korea and will be leading our growth efforts and support to our aqua business in Asia.\" 

A unique partnership has resulted in a value-added use for brewery waste products. At a brewery in upstate New York, leftover grains are mixed with wood chips to cultivate fish feed for a variety of species being raised at an on-site farm. The pilot farm is currently stocked with yellow perch, channel catfish, and largemouth bass, but will later add more species.

With an eye toward the immense potential for fish feed sales in the eastern region of India, Anmol Group has set up a new plant in West Bengal. The new plant has a 100-ton daily capacity and will cater to West Bengal, Odisha, and North East states near Kolkata. The factory is currently running at 50% and will soon be fully operational.

AgriProtein has been named the BBC Food Chain Global Champion for its flagship product MagMeal™, a protein substitute for fishmeal made from fly larvae reared on food waste. The Food Chain Global Champion is a new category for this year\'s prestigious BBC Food & Farming Awards 2017, and recognizes outstanding work that is challenging established methods and practices to secure the future. \"Raising flies on food waste is just brilliant, because nothing need go to waste anymore. This so-called waste is feeding the animals that will feed the world.”

Cargill has closed on its agreement to acquire the animal feed business of Southern States Cooperative, Inc.  The deal was announced in early August and closed last week. Under the agreement, Cargill purchased the assets of Southern States Cooperative’s animal feed business. The purchase includes seven feed mills and Southern States Cooperative\'s portfolio of products, including three types of fish feed, as well as brands and customer and supplier relationships. \"We\'ve brought together two best-in-class feed companies to develop solutions to meet (customer) needs. We look forward to growing the Southern States feed business with Cargill as our partner.\"

Aller Aqua Group has officially inaugurated it\'s fifth factory, Aller Aqua Zambia. The Zambian factory is a USD 10 million investment, with a capacity of 50,000 tons per annum. It is a joint venture with Oakfield Holdings Limited. \"We have been present in Africa for a long time, and now the time was right to take the next step and establish an additional factory. The growth in Egypt and the success we experience through our own sales companies in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana prove that there is a market for aquafeed of a higher quality than the customers here are used to.\" 

Key regional players have joined with WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) to endorse a vision for inclusive and sustainable aquaculture on the African continent. The three page Call to Action includes proposals for regional collaboration on research and development with the establishment of centers of excellence, investments in capacity building and the dissemination of best management practices for profitable, productive, environmentally-sustainable and nutrition sensitive aquaculture. Improvements in farmer access to quality fish seed, better fish feeds and a regional animal health strategy to coordinate disease response and measures are seen as key elements for sustainable aquaculture.

A research project to investigate the effects of fish farming on wild fish is now complete. It started as a result of inquiries from fishermen and fish landing facilities, with respect to the poor quality of wild fish that had eaten salmon fodder near farming facilities. “The saithe that had eaten fish farm fodder had somewhat softer and more fissured muscle than other saithe, but it was still within the good quality category. Such a change in quality, however, is usual for fish that have good access to food; for example cod, when it preys on capelin.\"

David MacLennan, CEO of Cargill told FOX Business that consumers are tired of chicken and are instead eating more beef and fish. “The world is going to eat more fish – more salmon, more shrimp, more tilapia. So we have a significant fish feed business in Cargill.”

Nutrition Technologies, Vietnam, PatBio Feed, Chile and Ynsect, France are among the feed and nutrition companies who have been shortlisted to pitch to investors during the upcoming Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum at Stanford University. “This is the strongest group ever. The level of innovation is potentially both system changing and very profitable. We’re seeing the rise of ‘seatech’—new monitoring, visibility, production and processing tools for the seafood industry—as well as other advances that remove barriers to growth and sustainability for fishers, farmers and buyers throughout the value chain.”

A $53 million reservoir restocking project has been launched in northern Ghana. The project’s first phase will see 100 reservoirs restocked with 100 million fingerlings of various species, including tilapia, catfish and African bonytongue. Restocking reservoirs is one aquaculture intervention being deployed to boost regional production; local feed manufacturing is another. Low quality feed is a major problem in the area, as most farmers use self-compounded feed instead of extruded commercial products. In an effort to deal with this problem, the Aquaculture Research and Development Commission is gearing up to start producing commercial fish feed based on locally available raw materials.

In order to allow recognition of other Standards and become aligned with current internationally recognized Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) guidelines, IFFO RS has proposed to review and refine the IFFO RS Fisheries Improvers Program Acceptance Mechanism. The full draft of the IFFO RS Fisheries Improvers Program Acceptance Mechanism is ready for public consultation via the IFFO website for a period of 30 days beginning September 19, 2017. The purpose of this public consultation is to obtain input from a wide range of stakeholders. It is hoped that this mechanism will promote the path towards responsible supply of Marine Ingredients and provide clear and useful guidance to those who do not currently meet the IFFO RS requirements and wish to become IFFO RS certified in the future.

Entobel, the Vietnam-based supplier of insect protein feed ingredients, has won the first ever Aquaculture Innovation Challenge. According to the jury, Entobel “has a really good business approach, has been proven to be successful in the world already and is part of the race for a sustainable protein supply.\" The winning team received the $10,000 cash prize and met with investors, both of which will help them scale up their business.

A new project led by Luke\'s Research Scientist Risto Korpinen is investigating the possibility of using sawdust as a protein ingredient in fish feeds. The project, called \"MonoCell – High-quality single cell protein for fish feed,\" is aiming to make high quality single-cell protein out of sawdust, which could later on be developed into fish feed. Korpinen believes that wood-based protein has a realistic chance of becoming a serious option for fish feed. Pulp mills have the right facilities to develop and use the MonoCell innovation and, thus, create new business for themselves.

Olam International Limited has begun production at its integrated fish feed and poultry mill at Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria. Olam’s advanced new fish feed manufacturing facility will boost feed supply to help meet rising demand in Nigeria for fish, which is currently two million metric tonnes per year. The Kwara mill has an initial capacity of 75,000 metric tonnes of fish feed per annum that can be further scaled up. Olam estimates that its local sourcing of raw materials such as soybeans, corn and cassava for its animal feed operations will positively impact more than 300,000 smallholder crop farmers.

During a recent training program on aquaculture, the Director of Fisheries for emphasized the importance of preparing farm-made feed using locally available ingredients. He stressed that an economically viable feed will be essential to growing the regional aquaculture industry.

Earlier this year, the Zambian government acquired a US$50 million loan from the African Development Bank to boost the fish industry in Zambia. The government has already begun using the funds to build the capacity of the aquaculture industry, including providing funding for research on nutrition and aquatic feed formulation.

BioMar has announced that the acquisition of Alimentsa is now completed, and as of September 13 the company is officially part of the BioMar Group. BioMar will take over 70% of the shares of Alimentsa, representing an investment of 119 million USD. “It is our strong belief that we through an integration of Alimentsa in BioMar Group will be able to deliver a new high-end value proposition to the Latin American farmers by merging the highly recognized products and technical services from Alimentsa with our innovative and proven approach to R&D, sustainability and feed efficiency.\"

Ridley Corporation Limited has announced the successful results of recent L. vannamei shrimp feed trials, in which a Novacq™ inclusive diet significantly outperformed the same Ridley diet without Novacq™. The trial delivered strong growth and survival rates, and target harvest weights were reached after only 50 days compared to the traditional 70 day cycle. This biomass improvement would enable farmers to increase their production cycles from the typical current three harvests per annum to four, which equates to a 33% combined improvement in biomass and productivity.

The “global hub of excellence for aqua research” will accelerate collaborative work in more aquaculture species