At the 194th FEFAC Council meeting on 22 April, following the XXVII FEFAC Congress in Antalya, the delegates adopted the FEFAC 2030 vision for the Animal Feed Industry. The vision outlines the role of the feed industry as a knowledge-driven, highly-skilled and reliable partner to a sustainable, competitive EU livestock sector.

Prolific researcher and writer Dr. Claude E. Boyd, 76, is officially retiring from Auburn after more than 50 years of studying, researching and teaching aquaculture, most of them at the Alabama institution. He will continue in his role for the next two years to see his five remaining graduate students through the program, so it’ll be a “soft” retirement for the hard-working Mississippi native.

On the occasion of the XXVII FEFAC Congress in Antalya, Alain Guillaume and Jaime Piçarre were elected Honorary Members.

As we consider resource utilization in our future food supply, quite clearly salmon offers the promise of producing a lot more food with a lot less input. This makes sense. For a few reasons, fish are the most efficient of farm animals. They don’t use any energy to maintain their body temperature as land animals must. Another energy benefit for fish is that they don’t spend calories working against gravity. Furthermore, the freedom from gravity also removes the need to spend energy building a bone structure to support their weight. So, we eat a much greater fraction of a small-boned fish than we do from large-boned land animals.

Control Union, the Netherlands-based global certification services provider, has acquired a minority shareholding in MacAlister Elliott & Partners Ltd (MEP) and ME Certification Ltd (MEC) in a move that will enhance its presence in fisheries and aquaculture certification. The new partnership will see all three companies working together to offer global services in fisheries and aquaculture.

A much vaunted budget measure that was intended at addressing the environmental impact of fish farms in Maltese waters, was never implemented after lobbyists for the multi-million business weighed in. In its Budget 2015, the government had announced the introduction of a levy of 10c per kilogramme of feed used in fish farms to address the industry’s environmental impact.

Scotland’s largest container port, Port of Grangemouth, has opened a 50,000 sq.ft. warehouse development for EWOS Cargill Aqua Nutrition Scotland.

Residual products from shrimp shells are becoming a million dollar industry – through a dietary supplement that has blood pressure lowering effect.

Shimp News International invited shrimp prducers to report in from the earthquake-struck country. This is a snapshot of how the industry is faring.

At Nicovita Symposium, Dr. Dean Akiyama tells Ecuadorian shrimp farmers to ‘fix the house’ for better performance

At a surprise ceremony during Aquafeed Horizons Asia conference in Bangkok at the end of March, leaders from the aquafeed sector came together to recognize the contribution that Dr. Warren Dominy has made to the development of the industry throughout his more than 30-year career. Speaking on behalf of the group, Dr. Dean Akiyama, aquafeed consultant, Indonesia, told delegates at the packed Aquafeed.com technical conference that they would not be doing what they do today were it not for Dr. Dominy having established a scientific foundation for aquafeed production and nutrition. "He made aquafeed production what it is today", Dr. Akiyama said.

The first draft of the ASC Responsible Feed Standard was released for public feedback from June 30 to September 11, 2015. Within this period, 1014 written comment lines where received from 47 different stakeholders.The Technical Working Groups are now re-starting in order to process received feedback and develop content for the 2nd draft.

While the 2015–16 El Niño remains at weak to moderate levels, recent changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere, combined with current climate model outlooks, suggest the likelihood of La Niña forming in 2016 has increased to around 50%. This should be good news for fishmeal supplies: La Niña usually has a positive impact on fishing in South America, where upwelling brings cold, nutrient-rich waters to the surface.

According to the Alltech 2016 Aquaculture Feed Survey, China was the number one aqua feed producer with 17.3 million tonnes at an average cost per finisher diet of $850

This \'new\' fish is in demand by some of Australia\'s top restaurants. Video report.

The billionaire chairman of New Hope Group Co., China’s largest privately held agricultural company, is looking to buy fish-farming assets in Southeast Asia as part of a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) push to expand overseas.

The EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures offers new evidence on ethoxyquin

The government should give better attention to aquaculture in order to supply the volume of fish needed by the country that could not be provided anymore by offshore fishing.

As fish farming grows, so does pollution from farming crops for fish feed, study suggests.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has more than $1.2 million in available funding to support the development of environmentally and economically sustainable aquaculture in the United States. This funding is available through the Aquaculture Research Program, administered through USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).