Fisheries supplying Omega Protein\'s marine ingredients products have been recognised for their sustainability in a recent report from the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.

Ridley Aquafeed is set to launch a commercial prawn feed, Perform Plus NoCatch, containing no wild-caught fish.

Ministries and agencies in Vietnam are to probe the implementation of prices, tax and competition between foreign-invested companies producing and trading feed for shrimp and fish.

Whilst typical fishmeal used for farm-raised shrimp costs around USD 2,500 per metric tonne, cottonseed at USD 300 per metric tonne could be a cost-saving alternative, if productivity measures up.

Investment is needed to scale up algae oil production to meet the demand from aquaculture, according to Leslie van der Meulen, chair of the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s.

The European Food Safety Authority has announced its opinion on the production and consumption of insects as food and feed.

Cargill’s deal to buy EWOS sees the company enter the salmon feed business and expand its presence in global aquaculture.

rnA ground-breaking project to provide freshly processed, superior quality krill oil direct from the sea to the market, is nearing its final stages.

American Feed Industry Association President and CEO Joel G. Newman is to serve as elected chairman of the International Feed Industry Federation for 2016-17.

In a move that has surprised the international aquaculture sector and would constitute a reverse takeover under the AIM rules, UK-listed Benchmark Holdings has confirmed its potential acquisition of Dutch-based Inve Aquaculture Holding.

The Norwegian National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, shows how ingredients from the marine environment can be alternatives to fishmeal and fish oil.

Aqua-Spark, an Investment Fund for Sustainable Aquaculture, is helping pave the way towards a more sustainable, clean and healthy aquaculture industry through its first investments into a fishmeal replacement and a vertically integrated African fish farm.

South Africa-based Oceana, which deals in fish oil and fishmeal, plans to invest $13 million in two new facilities in Angola and Namibia.

Researchers at Ctaqua Technology Centre have spent the past two years developing acoustic techniques to boost feeding processes in marine aquaculture facilities.

Foreign investors, mostly from Norway, are taking notice of the developing potential of the aquaculture industry in Kenya, now that the government has launched a robust strategic plan.

Following five years of negotiations, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership reached a trade agreement on October 4 that will in part eliminate or significantly reduce tariffs for agriculture products, deter non-science based sanitary and phytosanitary barriers, eliminate export subsidies, support jobs and drive sustainable growth.

The White House issued comments from President Obama yesterday (6.10.15), following his meeting with agriculture and business leaders at USDA to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

More than 420 delegates from 42 countries attended the 55th IFFO Annual Conference in Berlin last week. The event proved to be a successful meeting place for the worldwide fishmeal, fish oil and wider marine ingredients industry to network and share information.

Cargill's $1.5 billion megadeal for Norway-based EWOS will likely, be followed by more acquisitions due to the growth potential of marine proteins

A lawsuit filed in California accuses Thai Union Group and its US subsidiaries of selling products to consumers from a supply chain that contains slave labor. This is the first lawsuit over alleged slave labor filed directly against Thai Union and its Chicken of the Sea US subsidiaries.