Australian government approved $7 million for the construction of the nursery and the Midwest Aquaculture Development Zone to foster investment in Western Australian aquaculture.
The call funds projects that facilitate the transfer of bio-resources from harvest to processing to ensure e.g. traceability, quality, sustainability and the necessary quantity or pre-processing of the bio-resources for conversion into products for the market.
The country, that currently produces seabream and tilapia, seeks to increase aquaculture production through new shrimp, abalone, seabream, cobia and seaweed projects.
“European aquaculture is facing its biggest challenge for decades and, if the situation is not dealt with correctly, market risks will continue threatening in the aftermath of the sanitary crisis,” the federation said.
The last time an attempt was made to breed European plaice was in 1946 and now Norwegian scientists have resumed trials to assess the suitability of this species for commercial aquaculture production.
CM Aqua and Ratz Aqua were acquired by Nofitech Holding AS and look forward to applying their technology to more species than salmon.
The company is building a multiplication center in Thailand but the commercial launch will be delayed until the shrimp market recovers.
UK-based OTAQ Group will provide technical expertise and commercial scaleup to US-based Minnowtech that provides an imaging platform to enable shrimp farmers to measure shrimp abundance to optimize feeding.
The company completed a £1.2 million investment to expand its UK facilities and initiate the company expansion in Southeast Asia with a new Singapore facility that will focus on tropical marine species.
The Rajiv Gandhi Center for Aquaculture targets production of five million GIFT seeds for this fiscal year, being the only GIFT supplier in India.
The country’s government has called for strengthening the control of imports for shrimp broodstock and PLs and aquafeeds from China to prevent the entry of decapod iridescent virus 1.
A team of Israeli researchers performed a study to identify the main factors affecting rotifer resting egg production, storage and hatching with the aim of increasing the efficiency, reducing the costs of production and facilitating their use in hatcheries.
The European Commission proposes EU actions and commitments to halt biodiversity loss in Europe and worldwide and transform the food systems and plans to support aquaculture producers in the transition to a more equitable and sustainable food system.
The center will expand its RAS research facilities as recirculating systems have gained importance in the salmon production in recent years.
Joint research of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Troutlodge has shown that genomic selection can double the prediction accuracy for bacterial cold water disease (BCWD).
Researchers were able to validate and provide a reliable basic protocol based on twelve abiotic and biotic factors for pikeperch larval rearing in RAS units.
Salmon smolts were culled after Sernapeesca detected infectious salmon anemia (ISA) in a smolt facility in the Aysén region.
EN 17399 provides clear and standardized terms and definitions for algae and algae products removing any ambiguity or misunderstanding in the sector.
Researchers found that membrane filtration gave more stable and better physicochemical and microbial water quality, which will reduce the probability for microbially related accidents in RAS.
Researchers successfully cultivated Rhodomonas sp. in tubular photobioreactors at pilot-scale utilizing the sunlight conditions.
