The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP), with the support of Cargill, has identified the eight most promising teams for the Global Innovation Challenge for Zero Hunger. One of the selected teams was FeedCalculator that has developed an app that generates least-cost and high-quality feed recipes based on locally available ingredients.

Salmofood expands the capacity of its plant in Castro, Chiloé, Chile, by adding a fourth line of production with an investment of $12 million.

Anthony Smith has been finally sentenced to three years and nine months in custody.

Rothamsted, a UK research center, has given permission to run a series of trials using genetically modified Camelina plants that have been engineered to accumulate omega-3 fish oils in their seeds.

The Foundational and Applied Science Program from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture.

Alltech Coppens is now offering customers a feed formulation service to boost the consistent performance of feed and support farmers and producers to take control of their profitability.

The industrial fishery for Chilean jack mackerel has just received the Marine Stewardship Council certification from the independent organization Lloyd's Register.

Thailand’s Shrimp Health Resources Improvement project (SHRImp), managed by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) in collaboration with IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, has partnered with XpertSea to deploy a collaborative farm solution to help manage production risks at multiple shrimp farms in Thailand.

The SDG Accelerator is a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) program aiming to accelerate business solutions with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The program is funded by the Danish Industry Foundation and is being tested tested in Denmark in 2018 and 2019 with 30 Danish small and medium-sized industrial companies. Aller Aqua was one of the 2018 participants of the program.

The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) has joined the IBM Food Trust ecosystem, which will help provide traceability of SSP shrimp from farm to fork. The platform will use blockchain technology to deliver greater accountability and transparency to customers and consumers for every element of SSP’s premium Ecuadorian farmed shrimp production and journey to the consumer plate.

Neovia Vietnam launched an aquaculture solution with a three standards model named “Mr. Three Standards” and an online consulting channel on Zalo platform to assist farmers with aquaculture technical issues and update them with the latest industry activities.

A study compared the effects of feed blocks and pelleted diets on lumpfish. Results suggest that feed blocks improve lumpfish health state.

BioMar has developed a new Symbio recipe to solve the challenges associated with diet-related cataracts in lumpfish.

Menon Renewable Products has developed a fishmeal and fish oil replacement for salmon diets and it is now being tested by feed companies.

A new RAS project, Bordermar, will be located at the Biobío region and is expecting to produce 4,000 tons in the first years, increasing up to 24,000 by the third year of 5 kg salmon.

Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and Fair Trade USA have joined together to implement a new project funded by the Walton Family to drive improvements in the aquaculture sector in Indonesia, the second biggest producer of farmed fish in the world.

The Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP) has written to 115 seafood-buying companies across the globe asking them to publicly disclose the list of wild-capture fisheries where they source seafood. The initiative is intended to promote transparency within the global seafood supply chain and drive forward improvements in fishery management.

Kampachi Farms has been studying the suitability of nenue (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a herbivorous reef-fish, as a potential new species for aquaculture. The study showed that this species can thrive on diets based on aquatic plant material as well as corn and wheat.

Peru announced 2.1 million tons anchovy quota for the first 2019 fishing season in the north-central coast.

The American Feed Industry Association’s Board of Directors named Constance Cullman as new president and chief executive officer to head the association upon the retirement of Joel G. Newman at the end of this year.