Charoen Pokphand Group is teaching Thai school children to farm fish and laying hens, in an effort to help improve nutrition. The eggs and fish they raise are cooked and used in their lunches to boost protein intake

In response to an increase in the level of activity and growth in the global market for feed for farmed fish, BioMar is stepping up its research efforts. Fish farmers and feed producers will in the coming years face a number of new challenges, and with this in mind BioMar is recruiting a number of new researchers and merging the regional R&D departments into a new global R&D organization.

Finalists have been announced for the inaugural Australasian Aquaculture Awards sponsored by the Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practices certification program

A demonstration hybrid solar-wind system will power pumps, as well as heat and cool water for application to the state’s growing aquaculture industry. The project will help determine the degree to which solar, wind or a solar-wind hybrid power system can produce electricity and reduce costs associated with marine aquaculture operation

BSE case poses no risk to food supply, USDA says

Algal Research invites the international algal scientific community to publish papers in the areas of microalgae, macroalgae and cyanobacteria research, and their applications

National Prawn Company (NPC) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have signed a memorandum of understanding which establishes a framework to undertake a variety of joint applied research projects

Salmon farming will be a new direction for CP in the coming years

DTU Aqua, Hirtshals, Denmark, is hosting international AQUABEST-meeting on sustainable fish farming in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims to transfer the technology of the Danish high-tech and environmentally friendly Model Trout Farms to sustainable saltwater farming

FDA laboratories analyzed 46 samples for residues of up to 12 antibiotics; four positive samples contained a total of five antibiotic residues. Of the four positive samples, three were domestic samples and one was domestic-import sample.

King crab tails are a little utilized resource, but a study has shown that boiled, peeled crab tails taste great and may be an ideal product for markets including restaurants.At Nofima in Tromsø, crab meal has been produced from the shell, tails and guts, which proved to be extremely well suited as an ingredient in start feed for lobster. Further, adding this crab meal to salmon feed resulted in increased growth

The Hartz Mountain Corporation, located in Secaucus, N.J., USA, is voluntarily recalling product from four specific lots of Wardley Advanced Nutrition Perfect Protein Tropical Flake Fish Food 1 oz. size due to concerns that one or more containers within the specified lots may have been potentially contaminated with Salmonella. Hartz is fully cooperating with the US Food and Drug Administration in this voluntary recall

Stevia Corp has entered into a LOI with Singapore-registered Fish International Sourcing House Pte Ltd, to manage post-harvest facilities to process aquaculture seafood fed Stevia Corp.'s proprietary formulations supplemented with stevia

Forage fish are twice as valuable in the water as in the net study finds

Investment by Certus Compliance Group into Food Certification International (FCI), looks set to pave the way for the group to cement its place as a leading international player in the seafood certification industry

How can we utilize local raw materials in the production of fish feeds for aquaculture? The Nordic countries are getting together to find an answer

Mohd Ashraf Rather, a graduate student from Central Institute of Fisheries Education, India, is one of eight winners of Alltech's 2012 Young Scientist regional winners. His research paper: Chitosan-conjugated hormone nanoparticles sustain surge of gonadotropins and enhance reproductive output in female fish won a new iPad, a monetary award and an all expenses paid trip to the 2012 Alltech Young Scientist Global Competition in Lexington this May

A U.S. federal judge in New York ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must address the use of sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock feed.

Marine Harvest ASA has entered into agreements with the largest European institute for applied research within fisheries, aquaculture and food, Nofima, and the leading Norwegian agricultural feed producer, Felleskjøpet Rogaland Agder, which creates the potential to establish a leading Norwegian salmon feed company with an annual production capacity of up to 500,000 tonnes of salmon feed

Following Cargill's acquisition of a shrimp feed mill in Tien Giang Province, Vietnam in November 2011, the company has inaugurated an animal feed mill in Ha Nam Province