The California Sea Grant College Program is soliciting proposals for projects to begin on/after February 1, 2020. Faculty and academic staff from universities and scientists from research institutions throughout California are invited to apply.

The Steering Committee reached an in-principle agreement on the overall structure and content of the standard and a final draft will be finalized by ASC’s Standards and Science Team.

HATCH, the world’s first sustainable aquaculture accelerator program, is currently calling for applications from aquaculture startups all over the world. Apply by June 28.

An interdisciplinary team of 13 partners from five European countries is working together in a four-year project to optimize the utilization of seafood side-streams by developing new methods to produce nutritional ingredients.

The European Commission concluded that a total level of 60 000 IU of vitamin D3 per kg of complete salmonid feedstuff is safe for consumers and the environment.

Feed innovations selected as AIC candidates The Aquaculture Innovation Challenge, that aims to find innovators boasting great sustainability solutions that target the Indonesian shrimp industry, has selected feed innovations for the final round.

As pioneers on the IFFO RS IP, being the first accepted applicants in 2015, Panama has demonstrated their commitment to improve the fishery as well as how an industry lead multi-stakeholder effort can promote positive change.

As they did with Norway, China signed three new trade agreements with Iceland to export Icelandic products to China.

With the aim of having the best professionals working in Vitapro, the company started with a new trainee plan in Ecuador to provide talent and train to young professionals in the core areas of the company (Technical Advisory and Feed Technology), to nurture the organization with new ideas and generate innovation from the bottom up.

Skretting has held a new training session for Aquagen professionals. The participants of the NUtrainig were able to know and review the Benchmarking of the Aquagen strain and the presentation on Analysis and Interpretation of Productive Results.

The five-year WorldFish-led, USAID-funded project is looking for innovative business ideas/concepts from private sector companies and organizations that have the potential to transform aquaculture in Bangladesh, particularly for women, youth and small-scale farmers.

Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC) and Guangdong HAID Group Co. Ltd. (HAID) signed a partnership to build a new feed mill in Tianjin, China, to be operated by their joint venture, Tianjin Rongchuan Feed Co. Ltd. The mill will produce high-end aquatic feeds, including prawn feeds, as well as fermented soybean meal.

A new feed formulation, that aims to lower the cost of fish farming and make fish more affordable to the masses, kicked off with field-testing at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in the Philippines.

A group of Greek and Thai researchers, together with Ÿnsect, tested the effects of replacing fishmeal with a defatted insect meal, ŸnMealTM, in shrimp. Results showed improvements on growth, immunity and disease resistance.

Experts at the University of Stirling have signed a new deal to provide omega-3 testing to a world leader in the sector.

Norway and China have signed an agreement that will contribute to securing market access in China for Norwegian fishmeal and oil.

Skretting estimates that more than 1.5 billion farmed fish and shrimp have already been harvested through AquaSim’s recommendations, and a further 1.25 billion are currently in the system.

The Soy Aquaculture Alliance (SAA) and Prairie AquaTech LLC performed a study on how combined ultrafiltration (UF) and reverse osmosis (RO) technologies in a RAS system can increase soy protein use in aquaculture feeds. Soybean inclusion diets increased fish body weight and reduced mortalities with UF/RO systems.

Aller Aqua, with Italian Palma d’Oro (Gloria Maris group) and Sardegna Porto Conte Ricerche, has recently concluded a study to test the effect of Aller Aqua Blue Organic Ex feed on sea bream pigmentation. The diet improved skin coloration making seabream more marketable.

Thai Union Group is considering spinning off Thai Union Feedmill, a manufacturer and distributor of animal feed, which generates sales revenue of Bt4 billion to Bt5 billion annually.