Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch will spend the next nine months evaluating sustainable seafood certification schemes including those of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA), Global Good Aquaculture Practices (Global GAP) and Responsible Fisheries Management Certification (Global Trust) to determine if any or all are credible

The following items will be discussed during the public meeting:Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for pesticide residues in food and feed; Proposed revision of the Codex classification of foods and animal feeds; Proposed guidance for selecting representative commodities for the extrapolation of MRLs for pesticides in commodity groups (Proposed guidance for selecting; Guidance to facilitate the establishment of MRLs for pesticides in minor crops and specialty crops

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has been notified that Alaska salmon processors are phasing out their funding for certification of the Alaska salmon fishery to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard

Friend of the Sea, a sustainability certification for products from sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, has also become an international reference standard for producers of fish oil, fishmeal and Omega-3.

Bi-valent oral vaccine approval for delivery to salmon and trout will allow farmers to replace injection with a vaccine top-coat on the regular feed

With a new aquafeed plant and R&D facility for tilapia feed development in Costa Rica coming online in May, BioMar is set to expand regional operations

The proposed 0-tolerance for intra-species recycling would make the use of non-ruminant PAPs practically impossible in the feed chain outside aquafeed production, FEFAC council says

There are just days left to register for Aquafeed Horizons and the FIAAP Conference Asia 2012

Chemical formulations containing isoeugenol are used in water as an anaesthetic for fish, crustaceans and amphibians. In the absence of data on the correspondence between the exposure of fish via feed and the aquatic exposure, the FEEDAP Panel considered it prudent to exclude the use of isoeugenol as a flavoring agent in feed for fish and other aquatic species

Re-evaluation of the safety and efficacy of potassium diformate when used as a preservative for raw fish and fish by-products for feed use concludes original approval should stand

Mainstream's legal arguments will show that the damaging allegations published by the activist are malicious and unsupported by facts or fairness". Meanwhile, Reddvillaksen (the Norweigan branch of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund) has come to the support of Don Staniford to the tune of 60,000 NOK. (Approximately US$10,000).

An agreement was signed December 22, 2011 between Hanaqua Tech Inc. of Taiwan and Nexus Feeds Ltd. of India. The agreement authorizes Nexus to use the Hanaqua trademark and logo in aquafeed marketing on condition that it implements Hanaqua Aquafeed technology, including management and formulation.

An Extrusion Master Class, New non-GMO tailored soybeans for specific feed use, algae, phytobiotics, AA variability in fishmeal ... and much more.

The Food and Drug Administration announced the publication of a Request for Applications for grants to support the development of new animal drugs intended for minor species or minor uses in major species

New state of the art feedmill, National Feed Testing Laboratory, digestibility laboratory and physiology wet laboratory inaugurated at ICAR

Three-year effort will assist Pakistan in using U.S. soybean meal to make high-protein aquafeeds; cooperation with Kansas State University in training courses on fish feed manufacturing part of program

The countdown to the feed ingredients & additives conference, FIAAP Conference Asia, and the international conference for aquaculture feed professionals, Aquafeed Horizons Asia, has begun and with just 17 days left to register, places are going fast

The world's first LNG-powered coaster should be ready to load her first cargo of feed from BioMar’s factories in Norway May 1, 2012

CANADA - Campbell River, BC – The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced funding today for four innovative Vancouver Island aquaculture projects, including a project to develop closed-containment technology. In total, the four projects will receive over $925,000 in federal government funding

University of Massachusetts Amherst film will 'expose some pitfalls of modern aquaculture'