Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CPF) is developing “Aquaculture 5.0” shrimp farm in the USA that can be cultured anywhere, any time of the year and that will use feeds made from ingredients which are all sustainable, being neither marine meals nor soybeans from sensitive areas.

Since 2013, Soja de Portugal group and its commercial aquaculture brand, Aquasoja, is one of the associate members of BCSD Portugal - Business Council for Sustainable Development.

REACT-FIRST will obtain critical data about cost, digestibility, nutritional quality and carbon footprint of single-cell protein, Proton^TM, produced by Deep Branch, used in fish and poultry feed.

China has suspended imports from three Ecuadorean shrimp producers after detecting coronavirus in recent shipments.

A team of researchers found that yeast-based MOS bolster the gut and skin mucosal barriers of seawater Atlantic salmon reinforcing skin response to sea lice.

A U.S. $3-million project will develop a scalable and deployable carbon-negative bioreactor system to capture carbon dioxide from power plant flue gases to produce microalgae.

The panelists of the inaugural session of Talking with Titans series discussed issues related to the sustainability of the industry, usefulness of alternative raw materials, proliferation of genetically modified raw materials and culture animals, and their short- and long-term impact on human health and society as a whole.

Marine ingredients’ production and consumption are not projected to decline for the time being, but they will certainly be utilized more and more as strategic ingredients in feed diets made of a bigger variety of feed components, according to Enrico Bachis reflection on SOFIA 2020 report.

Ian McIntosh has decided to retire in September 2020 and Michael Gelchie will replace him as chief executive officer.

Shrimp farming methods in Thailand have improved since Seafood Watch last assessed Thai farmed shrimp, prompting the change in rating from Red to Yellow.

Promoting farmed fish well-being with optimized feeds helps fish cope with different types of stressors that compromise animal health and survival.

A European project validated the use of beer byproducts, such as bagasse and yeast, for their use as ingredients for aquafeeds and found no sensory differences when comparing with fish fed on commercial diets.

A team of researchers, together with Biomin, tested seaweed extracts in whiteleg shrimp and found a decrease of feed contamination by fungi and a reduction of shrimp mortality by up to 50% upon a challenge with V. parahaemolyticus.

USSEC continues to guide the shrimp aquaculture industry in Indonesia to follow the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standard that is linked to the U.S. Soy Sustainability Assurance Protocol standard.

The country aims at increasing organic aquaculture up to 0.5-1.5% of total aquaculture production.

A new version of the MarinTrust Chain of Custody will be released in late July 2020 and will include a specific clause focused on registering key data elements that initiates deployment in an innovative way to demonstrate full traceability from the source.

The company said it would not buy from Cargill’s Aqua Nutrition subsidiary until its mother company had “significantly reduced” its “soy-related deforestation risk in Brazil” in a move to apply pressure on supply chains.

The Chilean research center, which provides research services to different industry players, is currently working on several projects, including different trials for Skretting ARC Norway, DSM and countries such as Canada and Australia.

BioMar Norway and Bio Feeder extended their collaboration with a new cutting-edge hybrid vessel, the Kryssholm, that features a combination of diesel engines and hybrid batteries and that will be completed in 2021.

OMEGA contains selected fish oil as the lipid added source, allowing for increased intake of marine ingredients during fish life cycle, with later effect on fillet lipidic profile.