Chilean conglomerate Agrosuper announced on Sunday it has acquired 99.71% of Empresas AquaChile.
During their first year in Mexico Nicovita, Vitapro brand name, achieved excellent productive results both in long cycle and short cycle, helping its clients to increase profitability of their production. The company opted for Mexico as part of its expansion plan.
China environmental protection policy will continue this year with special focus on aquaculture farms bringing on production to decline.
Anchovy landings of the 2018 second fishing season in the North Central zone of Peru have exceeded by 63% the average of the last three years, with a total of 2,050,000 tons. The National Fisheries Society (SNP) established last November global quota of anchovy for this zone and this season in 2.1 million tons, after having estimated in 7,160,000 of tons the level of the biomass, 22% above the average of the last years.
An award-winning marine biologist – who serves as a Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government – is set to take on a principal role with the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture
The UK Government is urged to remove the threat of a no-deal Brexit to avoid potential disaster for industries like aquaculture.
Japan's seafood processors are beginning to shift their business focus from catching fish from the sea to inland fish farming as new technologies and legal revisions make this kind of aquaculture more appealing. Companies such as Maruha Nichiro and Nippon Suisan Kaisha, or Nissui, soon expect to begin commercial shipments of inland farmed fish, including salmon, and a general trading company is following suit.
Auburn University's Aquaponics Working Group has a new vision for U.S. aquaculture, one that includes far more predictability and efficiency than today's timeworn models of commercial fish production.
The American Feed Industry Association’s President and CEO Joel G. Newman has formally announced to members that he will be retiring from the association effective December 2019. The association has formed a selection committee to facilitate the transition process over the next year and hired Kincannon & Reed to assist in recruiting Newman’s successor. “It has been my privilege to represent the industry and lead AFIA through a period of exciting and significant change. I am very proud of the many achievements and successes that we have accomplished together. My deepest thanks go to the AFIA members and staff who have supported and made this success possible.”
Harvest samples from across the U.S. that have been submitted to the Alltech 37+® mycotoxin analytical services laboratory in 2018 show high levels of mycotoxins, particularly deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone, fusaric acid, fumonisin and HT-2. “Mycotoxins thrive in changeable conditions, with lack of rain, excessive rainfall or, sometimes, one after the other causing a perfect storm of contamination. The extreme weather events that we’ve seen this year around the world have led to increased occurrence of mycotoxins in many countries.”