The company unveiled a new hatchery diet, GEMMA Neo, with ingredients inspired by nature to support improved palatability, simplicity to use and improved pellet structure and feed distribution.
Production capacity at the facility, once fully operational, will be 1.25 million juveniles per year.
Over the next three years, the company aims to increase production to 50 million eggs, which will be available for delivery all year round to domestic and export markets.
Fingerlings are more resistant to handling, transport and acclimatization when they are transferred to sea cages.
The facilities, run by the regional government, aim to produce six million fingerlings per year for local aquaculture farms.
Biosecurity, all-year-round production and superior genetics are the company’s key points to support the development of a sustainable tilapia industry in the region.
The first ballan wrasse reared at Mowi’s Anglesey hatchery in Wales has been delivered to Mowi’s seawater farms.
A team of Spanish researchers tested different feeding strategies in greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) larvae with the aim of reducing the use of Artemia and reduce the cost of production.
A new study found that triploid salmon is not as robust as ordinary diploid salmon.
The country is weighing the approval of genome-edited red sea bream with up to 50% more edible flesh.
Benchmark will provide genetics from its biosecurity facilities in Iceland for a three-year period, with an option for another two years, to Premium Svensk Lax new land-based facility.
Norcod and Havlandet Marin Yngel partnered in a 50-50 joint venture to build a new hatchery with a production capacity of 24 million cod fry per year.
To further increase the production volume, the country will build breeding centers.
A study reported, for the first time, that breeders with a genetic background for deformities affect the spawning quality in seabream.
Innovative genetic tools to speed the breeding of North American Atlantic salmon are being made available to breeders in the United States for the first time.
The project will utilize hatchery technology recently developed at Oceanic Institute to culture species, such as yellow tang, to innovate culture methods for kumu.
Hormonally-induced synchronization of maturation may have the potential of producing a larger number of progenies from more families.
The project, part of the country’s plan to grow the local aquaculture industry and lead by researchers from the University of Waikato, aim to grow this species in land-based farms.
The Journal of World Aquaculture Society presented open access review papers that assess the commercial viability of 13 finfish species in the U.S.
The company will deliver 25 million Atlantic salmon eggs annually and will contribute technical expertise.