NOAA Sea Grant announced USD 14 million in federal funding to boost early-stage propagation strategies for various aquaculture species and marine finfish juvenile production technologies, among others.
If permission is granted, construction would begin immediately with the aim of producing prawns by 2024.
The company unveiled a purchase agreement to acquire 93 hectares of land to set up US land-based fish farms in Montgomery, Alabama.
The test provides useful information that can increase the fish’s chances of survival during the transition from freshwater to the sea.
Philippine fish farmers are struggling to farm fish such as milkfish and tilapia due to a shortage in feeds and lack of fish fry.
The consultation aims to refine proposals for two major topics in the upcoming ASC Farm Standard, Fish Health and Welfare and Benthic Impacts.
The partnership will establish three Centres of Excellence in Sylhet, Khulna, and Cox’s Bazar to introduce sustainable techniques for fish breeding and cultivation.
The team aims to determine the functional genetic markers for the selection of families of Atlantic salmon resistant to sea lice.
The new breeding program is designed to provide Kames with a major boost to the quality of its steelhead trout production.
Around 200 trout farms in Swat Valley, including those in Upper Dir, Kohistan, Madyan, Cheil, Mankial and Atror, have suffered massive losses because of the recent floods in Pakistan.
Watanabe established the Aquaculture Program at the Center for Marine Science to advance finfish development, especially in the hatchery stages.
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.
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.
The investment will be used to expand the existing hatchery and nursery facilities to cater to 250 hectares of sea site production and ancillary services.
The EU project CrispResist project aims to improve the Atlantic salmon’s innate genetic resistance to salmon lice using CRISPR-Cas9.
Ocean 14 Capital will invest in MITO that integrates bio-secure hatchery operations in the Netherlands with local nursery centers in the Italian market.
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 company plans to build three large hatcheries in Scotland to implement the company’s large smolt strategy.
To help improve food security and sustainability, insights into the DNA of European flat oysters from a series of studies could inform selective breeding approaches for the scarce shellfish.
