Posts Tagged ‘Land based farming and hatcheries’
Japan’s Shikoku on track for fish farm project
The Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku) is to begin launching a trial land-based salmon project in the Kumamoto Prefecture later this month, suggesting it has been privately working on the project for some time.
Read MoreKingfish US project moves closer after Maine court success
The Kingfish Company has overcome a major hurdle against opponents trying to prevent the company building a yellowtail facility in Maine on the US East Coast.
Read MoreNordic Aqua Partners forced into surprise cull
Land-based salmon farmer Nordic Aqua Partners has said it expects to lose around 190 tonnes in the current quarter after detecting a high concentration of the off-flavour compound geosmin at its Chinese facility.
Read MoreKingfish Company sees sales up 36% in Q2
Land-based fish farmer The Kingfish Company saw its sales volume leap by more than a third, year on year, in the second quarter of this year.
Read MoreTransforming aquaculture with sustainable, high-efficiency solutions
In the face of growing global challenges, Blue Planet Ecosystems is setting new standards in sustainable aquaculture with its groundbreaking systems.
Read MoreBlueprint for industry innovation published
Aquaculture features prominently in a new report setting out research priorities for the UK’s animal-based food sector.
Government-supported body the UK Agri-Tech Centre has published a report, “Livestock and Aquaculture innovation: the next ten years”, based on input from more than 150 stakeholders in the livestock and aquaculture industries.
Supply chain resilience
When Scotland banned the import of Norwegian salmon eggs in 2019, due to a perceived risk of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA), AquaGen Scotland immediately stepped up efforts to support the domestic industry by using local salmon populations to duplicate the breeding work of its parent company in Norway.
Read MoreLARA is transforming aquaculture with sustainable, high-efficiency seafood production
Blue Planet Ecosystems has developed LARA (pictured), a groundbreaking system redefining sustainable aquaculture.
Read MoreIcelandic authorities probing 5,000 strong hatchery escape
The Icelandic Veterinary Agency MAST said that just over 5,100 salmon fry got out of a Samherji hatchery on land, at Öxarfjörður.
Read MoreSpinTouch FX can analyse fresh, salt and brackish water
Utilising proven photometric technology that has proven to be game-changing in global water testing applications, the SpinTouch FX tests eight parameters – including ammonia, nitrate and nitrite – with one water sample, simultaneously, within two minutes.
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