The new breeding program is designed to provide Kames with a major boost to the quality of its steelhead trout production. 

The team aims to determine the functional genetic markers for the selection of families of Atlantic salmon resistant to sea lice.

The partnership will establish three Centres of Excellence in Sylhet, Khulna, and Cox’s Bazar to introduce sustainable techniques for fish breeding and cultivation.

Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are developing a new larval feed that uses the invasive species copi, previously known as Asian carp, as a protein source.

Taiwan has funded the African country Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, with USD 3.07 million for an aquaculture four-year project to implement tilapia breeding techniques in the country.

The EU project CrispResist project aims to improve the Atlantic salmon’s innate genetic resistance to salmon lice using CRISPR-Cas9.

The new 2,300-m² facility has an annual production capacity of 300-400 million ova.

ARS researchers developed a new rainbow trout line, ARS-Fp-R, that is resistant to bacterial cold-water disease.

Inverkerry’s hatchery and Smolt unit, operated by Hendrix Genetics, has been upgraded to organically produce around 1.2 million young salmon each year

The study described 64 genes responsible for deformities in gilthead seabream that open the door for the development of a genetic tool for seabream.

The system improves the process of counting and sizing tilapia reducing fingerling mortality and increasing size accuracy.

Ten years ago, Regal Springs’ Lake Toba tilapia farm in Sumatra, Indonesia was the world’s first fish farm to earn ASC certification. 

Two tilapia hatcheries in Leohitu and Parlamento were inaugurated and two more are under construction to produce over 10 million fingerlings per year by 2023.

Researchers evaluated its hatchery production by considering the market and economic factors to determine if black seabass is commercially ready for farming.

FEAP said that this modification of the legislation is based on the state of the wild stocks but fails to take into account the existence of farmed specimens that are traceable and distinguishable from wild sturgeons.

No differences in body size, smoltification, stress markers, heart size or skeletal malformations were found. 

UK fund JLEN Environmental Assets is investing approximately £40m (USD 48.6 million) over the next three-four years in Norwegian trout farmer, Hima Seafood. 

The company has become the first company in Europe to successfully complete a pilot of Global Seafood Alliance’s (GSA) Raised Without Antibiotics Standard. 

Svanøy Havbruk will be the first aquaculture facility in the world to use wave power to replace diesel at the Sandkvia site on the south side of Svanøy, Norway.

Landeldi signed a term sheet with the national power company of Iceland, Landsvirkjun, for electricity delivery for its new salmon farm, Deep Atlantic Station, in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland.