Shen Long Bio Tech International, Vietnam’s fourth largest shrimp feed company, recently expanded its second feed mill in Long An Province at a cost of US$15 million. The new facility will allow the creation of 500 new jobs.

The American Feed Industry Association has sent a letter to the House of Representatives, urging members to vote \"yes\" for Trade Promotion Authority, arguing that \"TPA is key to successfully negotiating trade agreements vital to the growth of the US animal food industry.\"

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced the new menhaden harvest limits during a visit on June 4, 2015, to Omega Protein, the largest menhaden fishmeal producer in the USA.

The Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) launched its first sustainability report at the World Ocean Summit on June 5th 2015, to demonstrate members’ strong commitment to continuous improvement in the sustainability of their operations.

Two of Cargill's feed mills, Cargill de Honduras S. de R. L. and Cargill de Nicaragua S.A., recently earned Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification. They are the first feed mills outside Chile to achieve this status, as well as being Cargill’s first feed mills to attain BAP certification.

Production of fish and shrimp aquafeed in India in 2014 is estimated at 1.25 million tonnes from the 25 major feed companies. The country’s smaller local feed mills produced a further 0.25 million tonnes. Shrimp news gives the low down on the growth of the industry.

Dr. Steven Hart is to join The Global Aquaculture Alliance as vice president of education and outreach, effective June 29.

NRGene, in cooperation with scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and the University of Illinois, has mapped the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) genome using its DeNovoMAGICTM big data genome assembly tool.

Farmers are likely expand the area planted with soybeans in Brazil for a ninth consecutive year, local analysts and farm groups say, even though the price of the country\\\\\\\'s main export crop is down by a quarter from a year ago.

Altor, the Nordic private equity group that owns EWOS, has teamed up with Goldman Sachs to acquire Danish animal and aquaculture feed producer Hamlet Protein from Polaris Private Equity and Hamlet’s founder, Ole K. Hansen.

The Thai Sea Watch Association has given agro giant Charoen Pokphand (CP) just three months to stop buying young fish to incorporate into animal feed. The group held a rally outside CP headquarters in Bangkok, where it said that the company’s use of trash fish made it responsible for the destruction of Thailand\'s marine environment.

Garry Ullstrom, CEO of Kuterra, Canada’s first land raised Atlantic salmon, gave an update on the company’s progress at a recent conference held by the Aquaculture Association of Canada. Kuterra is currently working with its sixth cohort of Atlantic salmon smolts and FCRs have improved from 1.25 in cohort 1 to 1.8 in the last cohort harvested.

ENFEN has just released a new alert about a Coastal Niño in Peru, which is expected to be moderate to strong during the Southern Hemisphere winter. How this will affect the anchovy fishery is currently unknown but scientists are keeping a close eye on the situation.

A new Horizon 2020 programme, EMBRIC (European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster) kicked off a program of activities on June 1 that will put Europe’s blue bioeconomy agenda firmly on the map.

S corn growers were disappointed last week when the Obama administration announced that it wanted to scale back the amount of biofuel that gasoline refiners must include in fuel. Although the proposal allows a modest boost for 2016, it falls a long way short of the ethanol lobby’s hope for a greater share of the nation’s fuel supply.

Aquaeed.com will be in Cologne next week for the largest Animal Feed and Grain Processing event to be held. We are looking forward to meeting you on our stand (A27) and during our conference and to presenting this year\'s Aquafeed Innovation Award.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance, Preferred Freezer Services and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth are partnering on a project to build a global database of aquaculture facilities, including processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills.

A floating, multi-layered facility, combining aquaculture, hydroponics and photovoltaics, is the brainchild of a Spanish company, Forward Thinking Architecture. The floating farm can be located close to areas where food is most needed and can potentially become automated Farm Clusters.

A central Indiana fish farm that last year won approval for a $30 million expansion faces more than $200,000 in court judgments after lawsuits filed by businesses who say the company owes them money.

The Indonesian government is focusing on increasing the production of cultured fishery products as these commodities have huge potential in the global market. Economic growth in the fishery sector in the first quarter of 2015 was recorded at 8.64 percent.