Two ships of Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), together with six fishing boats, set sail on Saturday to start a new research survey in order to perform a second measurement of the anchovy biomass and distribution in the Peruvian sea. \\\"In the first measurement it was found that there was high salinity due to the effects of El Niño phenomenon, but an improvement was observed of environmental conditions that would be favorable for the anchovy…”

A new two-phase scoping study, initiated by the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) in partnership with Highlands and Island Enterprise (HIE), launched this week at Aquaculture UK to canvass industry opinion on a proposed Centre of Excellence. \"We’re not going into this with any preconceived ideas – we want to find out what the industry needs in order to grow towards 2030 and beyond...”

Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) will explore the potential of a novel approach to delouse farmed salmon and, ultimately, increase harvest volumes. A six-month project will research the efficacy of ultrasound in targeting and dislodging naturally occurring sea lice in a non-invasive and non-harmful way.

AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. announced that Health Canada concluded its review of the AquAdvantage Salmon (AAS) and has approved it for commercial sale in Canada. Additionally, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has determined that feed ingredients derived from AAS do not present livestock feed safety or nutrition concerns when compared with feeds derived from other permitted salmon to be used as livestock feed in Canada.

Domestic fish production in Bangladesh has been steadily growing during recent years, however the country has yet to start reaping the benefits from economically utilizing fish scraps. A committee of experts has advised that the country should handle fish scraps as food grade for use as raw materials for different by-products like fish meal, fish oil, pet feed, cytosine, or chitin etc.

Following a comprehensive three-year multi-institutional study, researchers are calling for a review of EU legislation that currently prohibits the use of insects as a protein source in animal feed. Among other results, their study found that common house fly larvae can be used to replace up to 50% of fish meal without affecting fish performance or proximate compositions of the whole body of Atlantic salmon parr.

Raisio will invest nearly four million euros to expand its fish feed factory located in Finland. The factory will have a new production line that increases production capacity by a third and improves technical features of feeds. Construction of the new production line will begin in the summer of 2016 and will be completed in the spring of 2017. The investment will improve the materials as well as the energy efficiency of Raisioaqua feeds, with new energy consumption expected to be around 30 per cent less than it is today.

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.