Grays Harbor College, Aberdeen Washington, USA, is holding an online auction of surplus items from their Aquaculture Center

The official opening of the newly built aquafeed plant took place in Honduras on Saturday 10 August. The plant is a joint venture between Nutreco/Skretting, Gisis Ecuador and Regal Springs. The new plant will produce feed for the Regal Springs’ tilapia farming activities in Honduras as well as shrimp feed for the local and export market

The group, representing 70% of the global farmed salmon industry, commits to sustainability leadership initiative as a path towards significant change

SEAFARE will hold a workshop in October 2013 in Seville, Spain to facilitate the transfer of knowledge generated from the project to interested parties. Project offers significant potentialto positively impact policy, industry and society

For the first time scientists have been able to develop a completely vegetarian diet that works for marine fish raised in aquaculture.

The FAO project has helped farmers form their own fisheries associations and provided training to support them in learning how to produce, amongst others, farm-made fish feeds using locally available row material

AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. responded to a paper published in Food Drug Law Institute\'s Food and Drug Policy Forum. In this publication, three respected scientists with long U.S. Food and Drug Administration relationships finds the process used by the US FDA to regulate products from genetically modified animals so rigorous that it goes far beyond the legally required scientific analysis of food and environmental safety

Ridley AgriProducts will produce and distribute Novacq in Australia and several South-East Asian countries

SFP has announced the launch of a Southeast Asia Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) aimed at improving the fisheries that supply fishmeal to aquaculture feeds in Asia. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Asia Sustainable Fishmeal Roundtable in Bangkok

Australian abalone farmers look set to save up to AU$2.5 m every year by switching to a new feed strategy developed by scientists at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). The breakthrough in better meeting the nutritional needs of abalone promises to lift productivity by 10% and will help producers meet rising demand for the premium seafood in high value markets including China, South East Asia and the US

Mainstream Canada was vindicated today when the BC Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against anti-salmon farming activist Don Staniford. The Supreme Court of Appeal also granted Mainstream Canada special costs based on the activist\'s behaviour during the trial

Cermaq has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement with Altor and Bain Capital regarding the sale of EWOS. The purchaser will be a Norwegian company established by funds advised by investment firm Altor and Bain Capital for this purpose. The agreed consideration implies an enterprise value of EWOS of NOK 6.5 billion, and will be payable in cash upon completion. The transaction is expected to close by the end of October 2013

FF Skagen, together with two other companies, has been charged for forgery in connection with sale and distribution of fish oil and for violating EU by‐products regulations

National Prawn Company,Al-Laith, KSA and BASF, Ludwighafen, Germany have signed an agreement on collaboration in the field of algae technology.

While the global demand for fish is climbing faster than current resources can meet, aquaculture remains a largely underdeveloped industry in African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. However, experts speaking at the 32nd Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Brussels Briefing last week noted the “significant potential” of the sector across ACP (Groupe des Etats d\'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique) regions if the right policies are in place

An Israeli aquafeed mill with an installed capacity of 24,000 metric tonnes was inaugurated at Prampram, near Tema in Ghana. At this stage, the $5 million production facility is running at between 1,000 and 1,400 tonnes of feed a month for local and export markets

Acquisition supports Cargill\'s strategy to expand its aquaculture business in key growth regions

Cermaq has received a second competitive bid for EWOS which is being considered along with the original offer from Altor and Bain Capital

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) carried out an unannounced audit at the Narong Seafood Co. Ltd. shrimp processing plant in Samutsakorn, Thailand, in mid-June. As a result of the audit, the organization recommends that the plant maintain its Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification

On the publication of a peer-reviewed scientific paper confirming the lack of evidence of negative impacts on wild salmon stocks from fish farming, The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) said it is now time to think of coastal communities and for all sides in the divisive debate to work together to create badly-needed jobs and economic activity in peripheral areas