Oregon State University researchers have patented a new strain of the red marine algae dulse, a favourite food of abalone, which is fast growing, high in protein, and tastes like bacon!

Fishery and aquaculture product exports from Chile fell by nearly 15 percent in the first four months of this year, according to the latest Sector Report on Fisheries and Aquaculture issued by SUBPESCA.

There is a greater than 90% chance that El Niño will continue through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-16, and around an 80% chance it will last into early spring 2016, say climatologists at the Climate Prediction Center.

IFFO has welcomed the ASC’s Responsible Feed Standard consultation as a welcome opportunity to comment on the proposals, which form a wide ranging and demanding standard encompassing environmental impacts, social and welfare requirements, energy usage and other criteria.

IFFO has endorsed its partner organisation GOED’s response to a Washington Post and subsequent articles, which call into question the health benefits of taking omega-3s.

Montana researchers claim to have developed a wheat variety resistant to wheat midge, which has caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage to the State’s billion-dollar wheat industry.

Cape Verdean company OJFP, which processes the fish waste of fish canner Frescomar, has invested USD 1.2 million in new equipment to keep up with growth at the factory, following the installation of its new production line for canned tuna.

Indian seafood production has been growing at the rate of four per cent per annum since 2012, and the country’s aquafeed demand is predicted to reach 7 million tonnes by 2017-18.

New research shows that as the world’s waters acidify because of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) could become smaller and less likely to survive.

More than 800 feed flavourings used in Europe are currently undergoing safety assessments for re-authorisation, with active involvement from some of the world’s most influential feed operators.

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have just announced the successful first year results of field-scale trial of Camelina oilseed plants, genetically engineered to make omega-3 fish oils in their seeds.

The Board of Directors of Avanti Feeds Ltd has approved the expansion of its shrimp feed production capacity, by setting up a new shrimp feed plant in West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh.

THAI EXPORTERS and processors of seafood and fishmeal are confident that tougher rules to stop IUU fishing will improve the European Union\'s perception of the country\'s fisheries management, and that Thailand should be released from its \"yellow card\" warning following a report due in October.

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.