Fishmeal exporters last week voiced concern about the fishing of undersized species, saying they had filed a court petition against the practice. The Fishmeal Exporters Group denied exporting fish caught with illegal sized nets, which it claimed were \'illegal and unethical\'.

A new ethical food label - assured by the RSPCA - has been launched in a bid to help improve the lives of a further 100 million farm animals, plus many millions of farmed salmon and trout, in the next five years.

Global warming will have profound consequences on where and how food is produced, and also lead to a reduction in the nutritional properties of some crops, experts say in a new book.

In its latest sustainability report, published this week, EWOS reveals that a quarter of its feed now comes from fisheries by-products.

Sentinel-2a, the lead spacecraft in Europe\\\'s new multi-billion-euro Earth observation programme, went into orbit in June. Its mission is to return pictures of the planet’s surface in visible and infrared light, which will enable the world\'s food crops to be monitored.

Seajoy Group is Latin America’s first company qualified to offer four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) shrimp for its operations in Honduras and Nicaragua, following confirmation that it sources feed from Cargill de Honduras S. de R. L. feed mill, which earned BAP certification in early June.

Too much rain in the U.S. and not enough in Europe and Canada sparked the biggest weekly rally in wheat and corn prices in three years, this week.

The deadline for applications for the Preferred Freezer Services Global Aquaculture Innovation & Leadership Award has been extended to July 31 2015.

Amendments to the Soil Association draft Aquaculture Standards are out for consultation until 24 August and interested parties are invited to participate in the consultation survey and to submit comments. The Standards Board is hoping that a wide range of stakeholders will participate.

Public consultation for the new ASC Responsible Feed Standard is now open. The Standard aims to provide a means to significantly reduce the environmental and social impacts created by the production of ingredients used for aquaculture feed, and to provide an incentive and workable goals for ingredient producers who want to improve their production processes.

According to a recent article by the U.S. Grains Council, ongoing growth in the aquaculture industry encourages diversification in feed ingredients, including dried distillers grains with solubles, and presents an opportunity for U.S. DDGS producers.

From June 1st 2015 the EU will implement the new CLP (Classification, Labelling and Packaging) legislation for chemical mixtures including mixtures of organic acids such as mould inhibitors. As a result of this new legislation most organic acid based mould inhibitors that are sold today will be labelled as corrosive.

Calysta, an American startup based in Menlo Park, Calif., is aiming to make bacteria into feed, thus reducing the amount of animal-based proteins needed.

Chile exported fishmeal for USD 116 million between January and April 2015, a figure which shows a decrease of 0.5 per cent over the same four-month period of 2014, when USD 116.5 million was obtained.

The BioMar Group has just published a global report on sustainability, which outlines the company’s ambitious targets and shows its strong commitment over the years to developing sustainable and responsible solutions throughout its activities.

The first draft of the ASC’s Responsible Feed Standard will soon be ready for public consultation. The standard will set requirements that reflect industry best practice and develop the consensus needed to improve the environmental performance of key feed ingredients.

The global fish oil market is expected to reach $2.63 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 6.1 per cent during 2015-2020, according to a new report from Allied Market Research.

After nine years with IFFO and over 40 years working in the fish industry, IFFO Technical Director Andrew Jackson has announced that he will be retiring at the end of 2015.

Clean Seas Tuna, which operates in South Australian, announced this week that it is suing a former supplier for economic losses, claiming that they were caused by a nutrient deficiency in the feed.

BioMar is to build a new high-efficiency production line at its Karmøy factory in Norway, to boost capacity by at least 140,000 MT/year.