Freshwater-based aquaculture already exists in Cuba, but this is the first time that marine aquaculture will be tried out on a large scale. The aim is to create an economically and ecologically sustainable marine aquaculture industry in Cuba.

€2000 award for young scientists working on probiotics

FAMI-QS recently held its Auditors Training Session in South America, where the feed additives and premixtures industry has especially welcomed the system

Taking the initiative from the latest social and economic reforms in Myanmar, FAS USDA and ASA International Marketing (ASA-IM) jointly organized a business development program to actively engage the two largest aquaculture companies in the country to promote US soybean meal

To guarantee the sustainability and competitiveness of aquaculture, alternative ingredients must replace fish oils and fishmeal in aquafeed. Substantial efforts to move fish farming in this direction are already underway in the EU. Advanced research initiatives for aquaculture and nutrition (ARRAINA), a 21-partner EU project led by INRA, will further this work and will allow the long-term effects of this shift on the full fish lifecycle to be measured for the first time

Doubling fish farming is not likely to trigger a big disturbance in raw material costs, EWOS COO Kjell Bjordal told North Atlantic Seafood Forum, Oslo, Norway

CFIA IHN/IPN/ISA Surveillance Plan open for comments until March 16, 2012

The National Aquaculture Association has alerted members that it has become aware of a number of proposals under consideration by APHIS that would have an adverse impact on the US aquaculture industry and urges an industry response (Deadline March 23).

Nutreco announced today that it has signed an agreement to increase its shareholding in its Brazilian joint venture Nutreco Fri-Ribe from 51% to 97%. Nutreco Fri-Ribe supplies premix and feed specialties products for ruminant, swine, poultry and aquaculture species

The Global Aquaculture Alliance has added its voice to the controversy created by a presentation by ecologist J. Boone Kauffman of Oregon State University at the 2012 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which it said has led to a series of sensationalized and misleading articles about the impacts of shrimp farming

Feed trial reaches goal of Fish In: Fish Out ratio below 1:1 for marine fish

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed infectious salmon anaemia at a commercial aquaculture facility in Nova Scotia

Nelson and Sons, Inc., the manufacturer of Silver Cup fish feed, officially became Skretting US, March 1

Scottish Conservative MEP, Struan Stevenson has condemned the red tape that is proving a barrier to growth within Europe’s fish farming industry, calling for the bureaucracy to be simplified. Otherwise, he says, the sector is in danger of being dominated by competition from non-EU countries

National Algae Association (NAA) has opened a Testing Center. This first-of-its-kind initiative has been on-going as a part of NAA's algae production incubator program to assist new algae start-up companies test commercial photobioreactors, harvestors and extraction systems before entering the algae industry

Spanish researchers have developed an extruded aquafeed for farmed octopus

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -Marine biologists at Kampachi Farms announced the successful final harvest from the Velella Research Project, which raised fish for the first time in U.S. Federal waters. This harvest completes the grow-out cycle of sashimi-grade kampachi fish from an unanchored drifter pen that has been riding eddies in the open ocean, 3 to 75 miles offshore of the Big Island of Hawaii, since last summer

he U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Department of Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items, and draft U.S. positions to be discussed at the 20th Session of the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CCRVDF), which will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico from May 7 - 11, 2012

Canadian Senator Nicole Eaton announced she will be launching a new inquiry into the involvement of foreign foundations in Canada's domestic affairs and their abuse of existing Revenue Canada's charitable status. "This inquiry is about masters of manipulation who are hiding behind charitable organizations to manipulate our policies to their own advantage," she told the Senate

According to Charles McGurk, his new appointment as Health Manager in Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre (ARC) is one of the world’s most exciting jobs in fish health One of his first tasks will be to appoint two new researchers.