Ahead of the pack: best aquaculture practices meet the needs of the marketplace today.
By Wally Stevens, GAA Executive Director

Food standard certifier GLOBALGAP recently announced it will offer an expansion to its program so aquaculture producers can be certified in one step for implementing practices that help ensure the production of safe food in conjunction with environmentally and socially responsible farming

The Central College of Experts for the Feed Sector has made a number of amendments to GMP+ Appendix 10 ‘Minimum Purchasing Requirements’

Testing exonerates feed company

New EU organic standard is only the lowest common denominator - Naturland

EU feed prices may increase significantly at very short notice due to the EU zero-tolerance policy for the presence of trace levels of not yet EU approved GM plants in imported feeds

Outrageous waste, says CAGW

Skretting Norway silo-silo delivery raises efficiency and reduces climate footprint.

Sea surface temperatures along the equatorial Eastern Pacific, as of July 1, are at least one degree above average

Facilities to be leased out to Hong Kong-based Moana Technologies

Partnership will strengthen initiatives for oceans, education and sustainability

The FDA is asking for comment on its Reportable Food (and feed)Registry, which relates to adulterated food and feed

"The jig is up on this industry. Years of PR spin, political influence, and denial of science have led to this moment. Our wild salmon and everything that depends upon them are suffering unacceptably from the impacts of open cage salmon farming on our coast. It is time that we pull our collective heads out of the sand and say "enough is enough."

For the first time, scientists detect a highly toxic form of mercury in groundwater flows at two coastal sites in California.

FEFAC President, Mr Pedro Corrêa de Barros, stressed the need for EU Farm Ministers to recognize the value of agricultural investment for the EU economy and global food security

Pangasius fare well on up to 30 percent inclusion rate of low phytate barley

NOAA Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on the Fishery Management Plan for Regulating Offshore Marine Aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico

The European Commission has published a new regulation in the Official Journal, opening a new functional group under Regulation (EC) 1831/2003 for feed additives acting on the reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins

Climate negotiators urged to ensure that fisheries and aquaculture are not neglected in ongoing discussions regarding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol

Viggo Halseth succeeds Knut Nesse as Managing Director of Business Unit Skretting Northern Europe as of June 1, 2009