SPAROS recently announced their partnership with the WiseFeed Project, an integrated network of research groups from academia and industry working together to improve performance and sustainability of aquafeeds for fish production. SPAROS will contribute to the project by sharing expertise in aquafeed ingredients and additives, feed formulation, ingredient processing, feed technology, nutrient retention and growth studies, digestibility studies, and mechanistic modelling.

InVivo NSA has been experiencing strong growth in the Philippines for many years and this week announced the acquisition of a key player in aquafeed, animal feed and pet food production: Popular Feedmill Corporation.

Contreras helped lead the Cargill\'s global aquaculture strategy and led several major acquisitions in the industry, including a shrimp feed company in Thailand and a joint venture in Ecuador.

AFIA\'s Board met to recognize Rob Sheffer, Waycrosse, for his leadership as the association\'s chair during the 2015-16 year, welcome his successor, Paul Phillips, Maxi-Lift Inc./Southwest Agri-Plastics Inc., and announce its Chair-elect and incoming directors, and elect new members to the organization\'s Executive Committee.

All international models suggest the tropical Pacific Ocean will continue to cool, with seven of eight models exceeding La Niña thresholds by September 2016. However, individual model outlooks show a large spread between neutral and La Niña scenarios. The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology states the likelihood of La Niña forming later in 2016 is around 50%.

The Chinese government, together with private aquaculture producers, invested roughly $10 million in 2015 for Intensive Pond Aquaculture (IPA) technology, according to the International Soy in Aquaculture Program of the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC). That investment is expected to double to $20 million in 2016.

DG Santé, the European Commission\'s Directorate­General for Health and Food Safety, is currently reviewing legislation to allow insect derived meal to be included in the diets of farmed fish, according to the IPIFF.

A recreational fisherman has been left gobsmacked after pulling up a prize blue cod, only to find the bloated fish had been gorging on salmon feed. Martin Pinder said fish feed pellets used in salmon farms spilled out of the gut as he began to fillet the fish on board his boat.

Researchers have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in seven species of sharks and one redfish species captured in waters off Massachusetts, Florida, Louisiana and Belize. Most of these wild, free-swimming fish harbored several drug-resistant bacterial strains. The study, published in the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in every fish species sampled.

According to a recent Cargill Animal Nutrition survey, U.S. consumers recognize there are more health benefits associated with eating fish and seafood compared to taking fish oil supplements. Consumers understand that the health benefits of fish, the world\'s fastest growing protein source, outweigh that of fish oil supplements, despite their popularity.

New research has revealed that half of the world’s farmed fish have hearing loss due to a deformity of the earbone.

ISIS is now in control of fish farms in hundreds of lakes north of Baghdad, according to Iraqi judicial authorities. The fish farms are generating millions of dollars per month, officials say.

Sponsored by The Fishin’ Company, the BAP certification of two hatcheries and one feed mill, from which it sources fingerlings and feed, will boost availability of four-star BAP tilapia from China.

The research and education arms of the American Feed Industry Association and National Grain and Feed Association are partnering to finance a major project that will help animal feed, feed ingredient and pet food facilities cost-effectively comply with a core requirement of the Food and Drug Administration\'s final rules implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has released Terms of Reference (ToR) for the development of new marine finfish standards. The ToR advocates the development of standards for new marine finfish species based on the soon to be released standard for seriola and cobia.

Bob Rosenberry, founder of Shrimp News International, announced his retirement. His website has already been taken down. Bob has been a fixture in the industry in the 40 years he has been writing bout shrimp farming and aquaculture.

A long-awaited strategy to expand the aquaculture industry in Queensland may have been widely welcomed, but prawn and fish farmers say they\'re yet to see the detail.

Australia\'s fisheries may be in for a big boost if scientists\' work pays off. It is commonly believed that oysters can play \"a certain role\" in affairs of the heart. What people might find harder to imagine is that the creatures have a heartbeat of their own and that Australian research scientists are working on an ambitious project to measure it.

The trial will test whether GM Camelina sativa plants are able to make significant quantities of omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) and astaxanthin in the seed of the plant under field conditions, with aquafeed in view.

Venezuela\'s president, Nicolas Maduro, this week signed an agreement with the Association of Shrimp Producers of the West (ASOPROCO), which will allow for 50,000 tons of shrimp feed per year to be imported into the country.