An EU-funded initiative is exploring methods that will allow researchers to understand how aquaculture can promote development.

Based on favorable weather predictions, Scotiabank estimates anchovy and fish meal exports will grow 12% in 2015.

The International Fishmeal and Oil Association (IFFO) welcomed a recent paper published in Science entitled "China’s aquaculture and the world’s wild fisheries" but said the organization recognised it as a useful and timely contribution, but said there were inaccuracies that need highlighting.

National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA) is the Middle East’s first company to earn Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced in mid-January. It’s also one of only 15 companies worldwide to attain four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) status, denoting that its processing plants, farms, hatcheries and feed mills are all BAP certified.

Billionaire John Fredriksen’s Marine Harvest ASA (MHG) rose the most since 2012 after agreeing to merge its Chilean salmon farms with the South American country’s largest locally owned producer.

Atlantic salmon has become vilified in many circles because it is farmed. So many people take a position that Atlantic salmon is somehow a terrible meat product. It’s not. That position, in most cases, is one taken out of ignorance because too many people believe the wrong information sources and/or let emotion cloud judgement and allow bias to dominate decisions.

Texas A&M University has licensed its patent for the super-intensive raceway system of shrimp production for the United States of America market to the agriculture company based in Marshall, MN. Dr. Addison Lawrence developed the technology covered under the patent and contends that the super-intensive raceway system can produce 1,000,000 lbs. of shrimp/acre of water during a year. T

There are a number of ongoing initiatives related to voluntary seafood certification that have the potential to impact international seafood trade, market access and prices through improved transparency and reduced duplication, which is costly to the industry and consumers. The Global Seafood Sustainability Initiative (GSSI), a multi-stakeholder consortium of industry, civil society, and intergovernmental agencies, is developing a global benchmarking tool to provide information about certification schemes for voluntary benchmarking against the GSSI criteria.

El Niño-like conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean weakened over the past two weeks, after being close to or exceeding El Niño thresholds for several weeks. Despite this easing, there is still an El Niño Alert.

Kaolin, a type of clay found globally, significantly improved the survival of channel catfish with columnaris disease in a recent study conducted by fish physiologist Benjamin Beck, located at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Harry K. Dupree Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

The College of Agriculture at Kansas State University has announced Gordon Smith as the new head of the Department of Grain Science and Industry. Smith will also direct the International Grains Program Institute, located in Manhattan. He will begin his official appointment February 2nd.

With the January 6 death of Kenneth Morrison, the Global Aquaculture Alliance lost a great aquaculture pioneer and one of its greatest supporters.

The future availability of global seafood will be dependent on how China develops its aquaculture and aquafeeds sector. Utilization of fish processing waste could be key.

Senior executives met with Mr. David Cameron, Prime Minister of United Kingdom to discuss trade and investment opportunities in the agriculture and food sector.

The European Commission has adopted a key investment package for the Latvian fisheries and aquaculture sector worth almost €184m, including €139m of EU investments.

It seems that all too many people are still not getting the message, despite the fact I’ve been saying for many months there is no imminent recovery of shrimp farming to the production levels of a few years ago. Disease is a fact of life.

Cargill announced in December that it will no longer pursue an acquisition of Nutreco. In reaching this decision, Cargill said it considered all relevant facts, including the attractiveness of acquiring Nutreco relative to alternative potential investments

Commercial shellfish farmers who use the ocean to grow their crops off the nation’s coastline now have the same kind of protection against crop losses as do people who farm on land, due to a recent change in federal policy. The new language providing coverage was added to the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) as part of a recent Farm Bill and is a big deal for Connecticut’s $30 million aquaculture industry.

Atlantic Canada\'s largest aquaculture company — Cooke Aquaculture — says it has been forced to delay key elements in a $150-million expansion planned for Nova Scotia by several years. New Brunswick-based Cooke blames a moratorium on new aquaculture sites imposed by the previous New Democratic government in 2013, when it ordered a study of aquaculture. Cooke\'s applications for new aquaculture sites have also been on a shelf for two years.

Nicaragua registered record figures for fisheries and aquaculture production in 2014 exceeding expectations, according to the Centre for Export Procedures (Cetrex). However, revenues from the export of these products fell 8.3 per cent from 2013.