West Coast Salmon AS closed first stage equity financing with lead anchor investors Bregal Partners and Nutreco N.V. and initiates the development of RAS Atlantic salmon farming facility serving the U.S. West Coast market, with the first harvest planned for the second half of 2024.
U.S. Senators introduced bipartisan legislation to establish a national standard for offshore aquaculture and expand aquaculture in the country.
The USITC found reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of methionine from France, Japan and Spain, that are allegedly sold in the United States at less than fair value.
Pacific Ocean AquaFarms plans to operate a new 5,000-ton offshore yellowtail farm in the coast of San Diego, California.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition promoted Lauren Kasten, Kip Karges and Erin Carter to strengthen the North American product management and marketing teams.
The company appointed new field support members to its North American team to better support customers across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
Researchers from the Hawaiian-based Ocean Era found that fishmeal and fish oil can be totally eliminated from the diet of the carnivorous marine fish kampachi with no deleterious consequences.
The Scoular Company will build a 15,000-square-foot facility to manufacture barley protein concentrate for use in aquafeed and pet food and will begin manufacturing in May 2021.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) determined that Nuseed’s Omega-3 Canola meal is safe for use in livestock feeds and the oil is safe for use in fish feeds. It was also approved for cultivation.
Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CPF) is developing “Aquaculture 5.0” shrimp farm in the USA that can be cultured anywhere, any time of the year and that will use feeds made from ingredients which are all sustainable, being neither marine meals nor soybeans from sensitive areas.
A U.S. $3-million project will develop a scalable and deployable carbon-negative bioreactor system to capture carbon dioxide from power plant flue gases to produce microalgae.
The finished construction of the new steel framework is scheduled for July with the demolition of the old structure planned later this summer.
The Trump administration issued an executive order to promote American seafood industry competitiveness and economic growth and released the stimulus funding under the CARES Act.
Borregaard appointed David Hines as technical sales manager of the Americas Feed Additives team. Hines will be responsible for the Southwest U.S.
A California Sea Grant funded project will develop a new protein meal by processing under-utilized microalgal co-products that are leftover from oil extraction in existing facilities to replace fishmeal and fish oil in trout feeds.
A new collaboration with Corey Nutrition will bring specialty feed formulated in the Alltech Coppens Aqua Centre to the North American market to achieve maximum productivity and efficiency with specialty aquafeed.
The first scaled crush of the grain harvested by Montana and North Dakota contract growers is anticipated in the second quarter of 2020.
The Canadian government will support the project with a repayable loan of $4 million from the PEI Century Fund.
Officials believe a small explosion caused the fire to spread and engulf the entire mill, but the cause is still unknown.
The establishment of a 50/50 joint venture aims at building production facilities andaddressing the Asian market on an exclusive basis.