The seafood investor became the majority owner of Norwegian technology company Redox AS that develops environmentally friendly technologies for the aquaculture industry.
The company is expanding its partnership with Ramboll through its newly awarded contract for services for the high-tech US facility.
Lightner put together a team of researchers at the University of Arizona that provided much of the basic knowledge on shrimp disease and health.
The company reported no antibiotics used on its marine farms since 2012 and only minimal use at its freshwater hatcheries in recent years.
The company plans to build two hatcheries in Tay Ninh province and in Northern Vietnam to serve Vietnamese tilapia farmers.
The project will develop a software system that automatically captures continuous sensor data across aquaculture sites securely in one place, where it can be processed, stored and actioned.
The European Commission will open a dialogue with citizens, member states and the European parliament to jointly decide the way forward for the use of these biotechnologies in the EU.
The company will deliver three oxygen concentrators for separate hatchery operations in Iceland.
After the merger of Pharmaq and FishVet Group in 2020, customers will now have access to analyses from experts in laboratories in Norway, Scotland, Ireland and Chile.
The new genomic tool will help whiteleg shrimp producers improve their genetic programs and identify shrimp families raised in grow-out ponds.
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority's head office will not allow more projects for testing triploid salmon and will decide if it is a suitable method to safeguarding fish welfare.
CIBA-Nodavac-R is an injectable recombinant VNN vaccine that will help prevent VNN in fish hatcheries and bring down the incidence of VNN in grow-out stages.
Enzootic Genetics & Innovation, NRGene and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev team up to apply genomic selection to enhance Enzootic’s freshwater shrimp breeding program.
The hatchery scheme of SAPHARI certification will help farmers to easily identify good quality shrimp seed producers.
Eight aquaculture projects addressing challenges in tropical aquaculture, such as barramundi selective breeding, were awarded for sustainable urban food production.
Kenneth Bak was named managing director AKVA group Land Based.
James Cook University (JCU) scientists partnered with Mainstream Aquaculture to create a pure breeding line of golden barramundi.
GeneXpertise customers will get advice on genetic best practices, a detailed report on the genetic health of their population along with guidance on which crosses to avoid and which to make for a modest price.
This decision would ensure uninterrupted seed supply to shrimp and fish farming sectors in the country.
Researchers found that accumulative genetic gain in body weight after eight generations was 56%, averaging 7% per generation.
