According to a recent RaboResearch report, affordability and shifting trade dynamics are reshaping global seafood markets in 2025.
The handbook underscores the industry's significant role in global food supply, emphasizing the health benefits, resource efficiency, and climate-friendly aspects of farmed Atlantic salmon.
Skretting’s 2024 Impact Report highlights significant progress in sustainability, with CEO Bastiaan van Tilburg emphasizing the importance of transparency, collaboration, and the company’s new ACT value proposition to drive industry-wide change.
The company has also issued a call to accelerate collective action to conserve and sustainably use the world’s oceans.
Expanded assessment confirms sustainability challenges as well as gains where effective fisheries management is in place.
The country aims to boost domestic aquaculture production from 280,000 tons in 2024 to 530,000 tons annually by 2030.
With the launch of the EU Ocean Pact, an agenda that outlines shared research and innovation priorities in the sector to support sustainable and competitive aquaculture in Europe has been released.
The catalog proposes measures aimed at creating a supportive legislative environment that stimulates and increases feed circularity without compromising safety.
A recent project led by NMBU and Åkerblå confirms that operculum shortening in salmon typically occurs early in the initial feeding period and is linked to operational and production routines, particularly feeding.
A comprehensive investor engagement from the USD 80 trillion-backed FAIRR Initiative, involving seven of the world’s leading salmon producers, says the industry is at risk due to its over-reliance on declining wild fish stocks for feed, with no scalable alternatives to support long-term growth.
2024 progress data is now available in a new-fully digital format.
Global aquafeed production declined slightly, by 1.1%, in 2024 to 52.966 million mt, continuing a downward trend for the sector that first emerged in 2023.
This publication presents key data from 2023, covering areas such as compound feed production, feed material usage, industry turnover, as well as meat production and consumption statistics.
In 2024, 54.5% of all raw materials used by Alltech Coppens could be categorized as circular and restorative raw materials.
Products such as rainbow trout suffered the greatest losses, yet the industry as a whole was weakened as a result of warmer water temperatures due to El Niño and struggling rural economies stemming from political protests.
Trout was the most valuable species produced in 2023, followed by seabass and gilthead seabream.
The export value of all aquaculture products saw a significant 17% year-on-year increase.
Brazil's aquaculture sector experienced record-breaking growth in 2024, driven by tilapia production and a significant increase in exports, solidifying its position as a major global player.
The company says that is halfway towards achieving all its 2030 Sustainability Ambitions.
The publication of the report coincides with the launch of the Global Shrimp Council’s first major marketing campaign.
