Allowing the U.S. aquaculture industry to operate in the open ocean could help reduce the strain on the world’s fisheries as well as counteract a seafood trade deficit in the U.S. that has grown to more than $9 billion. In the process, however, open ocean aquaculture could cause environmental damage and further jeopardize wild fisheries.

Prairie Aquatech scales up production to reduce cost of commercial fish feed

The University of Stirling has been ranked among the top 50 research-intensive universities in the UK, in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). World-leading aquaculture research included two key projects in support of the UK and international salmon farming sector.

Scientists are sorting farmed salmon and providing them with exercise right from the early stages of their growth, in order to equip them to deal with the stress of transfer to the sea.

Research in Kenya and Uganda to test the feasibility of raising poultry and fish on feed made from insects rather than soybeans and cereals, is one of five projects announced by Canada\'s International Development Research Centre and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research to address food security in Eastern and Southern Africa. The switch will help to reduce costs for small-scale producers and redirect the food crops currently used as feed toward human consumption.

There is an approximately 65% chance that El Niño conditions will be present during the Northern Hemisphere winter and last into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2015, NOAA\'s latest El Niño climate predictions show. This is up from 58% predicted in the November report. Australian authorities say there is at least a 70% chance that El Niño will be declared in the coming months.

The partnership will look to engage local people through a skills, training and education perspective, all the way to a future career path in aquaculture and seafood industry. An Aqua Learning Centre in Sarawak is under consideration

Financial support is sought for a project to capture the experience of veteran industry members in their own words and use high definition video and the Internet to carry their messages to the global community

In 2013, marine raw materials for the first time represented less than 30 per cent of the feed for Norwegian farmed salmon, a report shows. Of the plant raw materials, soya protein concentrate and rapeseed oil are the dominating ingredients.

Silver Bullet, an award-winning, cutting-edge water treatment company, announced that its technology has been proven by third party researchers in lab and field trials as a powerful solution in the reduction and control of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacteria which has been devastating the shrimp aquaculture industry.

Sale of Mote’s Siberian sturgeon and caviar production operation marks first major private business spin-off from Mote research and first step toward significant future expansion of commercial sustainable aquaculture in Sarasota.

The Juncker Commission took office one month ago. Commissioner Vella has responsibility both for maritime affairs and for the environment. He has an explicit mandate to promote blue growth and green growth – to deliver more sustainable jobs in Europe. This new set-up clarifies even further that sustainable aquaculture and protection of the environment are two sides of the same coin. Aquaculture in Europe is already worth 3.5 billion Euro, with 85000 jobs – and it has substantial growth opportunities if we get the investment and marketing climate right.

Managing Director of the Baltic business unit, Ole Christensen, becomes new Vice President of Continental Europe; Managing Director of Chilean operation, Martín León, appointed new Vice President of Americas. Jan Sverre Røsstad continues as Vice President of BioMar\'s North Sea region. The other new faces in the Management Team are Patrick Campbell, Global R&D Director, Henrik Aarestrup, Global Marketing Director, and Sif Rishoej, Global HR Director, while Niels Alsted continues as Vice President with responsibility for Global Sourcing and Business Relations.

The battle against EMS is shifting from guessing what to do to implementing what works - but in the wake of EMS, new diseases are already appearing in shrimp in Asia - microsporidean parasites and a new nodavirus called covert mortality nodavirus

Sea Pact, a coalition of seafood industry leaders has awarded grants to The University of North Texas (UNT), for a research project utilizing probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics for improving growth and survival in marine finfish aquaculture, and WWF Chile’s Aquaculture Improvement Project to transition the Chilean farmed salmon industry towards Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification as part of the Global Salmon Initiative.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for the Commercial Development of Rock Lobster Culture Systems: the Cutting Edge of Aquaculture was officially opened at the University of Tasmania. The Research Hub has been awarded $5 million over five years from the ARC through the Industrial Transformation Research Program.

The European Food Safety Authority Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed has completed a re-evaluation of calcium formate for use as a preservative in feed for all animal species and categories, including fish. The panel determined that no adverse effects on target animals safety are anticipated when calcium formate is used at the maximum proposed dose.

An upsurge in fish farming is expected to provide millions of people in developing countries with better access to improved nutrition over the coming decade,says a new report. Technological advances can offset resource constraints, FAO experts say in the study.

The American Feed Industry Association today addressed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during a public meeting on the four re-proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules. AFIA and the 575 members it represents--which will be heavily affected by the rule -submitted comments to FDA in March and are taking the additional time provided to prepare feedback on the supplemental proposed rules published Sept. 29.