The two-year partnership will harness the power of global development and diplomacy to advance America’s leadership in the world economy.

Deep Branch Biotechnology, a UK leading tech start-up, will place a pilot plant within Drax’s Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Incubation Area to extract flue gases to feed microbes which can make single cell proteins for use in aquafeed.

A cooperation agreement was signed with the largest trout farmer in China to supply a significantly lower environmental footprint of fish feed. The proceeding was witnessed by a Chinese government delegation who travel to Denmark from the Qinghai Province.

Geelen Counterflow and Prarie Aquatech were the 2019 winners of the Aquafeed Innovation Awards, for Technology and Ingredients respectively. Judges were most impressed with the cost savings afforded by the electric dryer from Geelen Counterflow and Prairie Aquactech's ME-PRO - one of the few alternative proteins to be commercially available. The awards were presented during Victam International, the feed industry trade show, taking place June 12-14, 2019.

Pentair is looking to focus its Aquatic Systems segment on its core competencies in the residential and commercial pool segments

His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands officially opened the world's largest insect farm at Protix in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands on June 11, 2019. The occasion was marked by a deal with Skretting that could see up to 5.5 million salmon servings per year brought to market with insect meal incorporated into the feed.

US Funding Opportunity: NOAA Fisheries has announced the 2020 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant competition is now open. The Saltonstall-Kennedy Program will award up to $300,000 for projects that encourage the development of environmentally- and economically-sound marine aquaculture as well as relieve fishing pressure and improve market availability of U.S. seafood products.  

Ribbon cutting took place on a $2.6 million aquaculture research facility at the University of Idaho in Moscow early June.Research will focus on salmon, tilapia, burbot, shrimp and other marine species. ARI is moving all its non-trout research done at the Hagerman Fish Culture Experiment Station to Moscow, he said.

Students are now able to complete the Master of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences degree entirely online and “off-book” with tuition set at near in-state levels, even for international applicants.

SRAC’s Board of Directors has authorized up to $300,000 for a 3-year project to address reducing the need for Artemia in larval diets.

CP Foods will replace fuel source for steam boiler system from coal to biomass in four strategic plants, including Nong Kae's Aquaculture Feed Mill and Mahachai’s Aquaculture Feed Mill.

BioMar Group acquired the 50% remaining shares in the Chilean factory Alitec Pargua  June 7, 2019 in Puerto Montt, leaving BioMar as the sole owner of the former joint venture.

The American and European feed industries have renewed their longstanding partnership to increase mutual cooperation on sustainable feed production, feed safety management, communication, trade and pre-competitive research.

The Global Standard for Responsible Supply (IFFO RS) has recognized the progress being made by Thai and Vietnamese stakeholders to bring the region's fisheries up to higher quality standards in pursuit of certification.

A Swedish project, MultiBio, aims to establish and scale up a new multifunctional biorefinery that uses waste and process water from the pulp and paper industry and produces three renewable bio-based products: hydrogen, biopolymers and protein-rich additive to fish feed.

Claudia Gatica, who was the Deputy Manager of Marketing in Skretting Chile, assumed the Technical Management of Skretting, reporting to the general management in Chile and coordinating the actions of research and product development with the global administration.

A new EU funded project, AquaVitae, will work to increase aquaculture production of low-trophic species, in and around the Atlantic Ocean, in sustainable ways. The project aims to introduce new low trophic species, products and processes in marine aquaculture value chains across the Atlantic.

IFIF highlighted animal nutrition as an important contributor to promote animal health and welfare. Through feed formulation, feed processing and access to nutritional innovation, the feed industry supports animals’ good health with high resilience capabilities to stressors.

With a 25 percent extra production capacity, the company expects to increase flexibility, quality and performance of fish feeds. Construction of the additional production line is expected to be ready in Q4, 2019.

The first aquafeed plant in Cambodia to produce high quality fish feed was constructed under the ASA WISHH Commercialization of Aquaculture for Sustainable Trade (CAST) Cambodia project.