Marine Harvest opened a new hatchery which will grow up to 12 million fish a year and help meet the global demand for Scottish farmed salmon. The new £26.5 million hatchery at Inchmore in Glenmoriston replaces a much smaller hatchery which had been on the site more than 38 years, expanding the workforce from 5 to 18.

By replacing rotifers and artemia in the diet with formulated feed or minced fish or mussel, the survival rate of mud crab from zoea to megalopae has significantly improved

Study shows that a large variety of invertebrate animals, including corals, rotifers, molluscs, polychaetes and crustaceans, possess enzymes called ‘desaturases’ of a type that enable them to produce omega-3, an ability thought to exist almost exclusively in marine microbes.

Hanping Wang, who manages The Ohio State University’s Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development, has succeeded in raising faster-growing fish by artificially mating them in a not so typical way.

Charting a course ahead for the conservation and sustainable farming of freshwater and marine species is a chief focus of the first State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report that will contain subsections from 89 contributing countries, including the United States.

Portuguese bivalve aquaculture company, Oceano Fresco S.A., has completed a series A round that brings a total investment in the company to over €7.5 million. The company uses cutting-edge tools and a science-based approach to breed and commercialize premium species of bivalves starting with varieties of clam native to Europe.

Scottish Sea Farms’ new RAS hatchery has achieved a critical milestone with the first smolts having gone safely out to sea pens with an average weight of 160 grams - more than double that of smolts grown by the company when using traditional hatchery methods.

To support its continuous growth, the company plans to strengthen its technology, R&D, engineering, project management, customer support and purchasing departments.

Australian startup Genics, which spun-out of CSIRO, will commercialize a new test that can detect 13 commercially significant shrimp diseases, including white spot syndrome and infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV).

Study highlights that the profitability of Artemia farms are significantly affected by farming scale, production model and the interaction between these factors.

Chitose Group, a Japanese group of bioventure companies, has expanded its Spirulina production capacity with a new facility in Brunei. Spirulina is sold as a supplement for human consumption, but the company also targets the aquaculture industry as live prey food and an alternative ingredient for aquafeeds.

A new federal order requires that imported shipments of all live fish, fertilized eggs and gametes from TiLV-susceptible species now have a USDA import permit, official health certificate and veterinary inspection. 

Earlier this year, the Health Canada Veterinary Drugs Directorate (VDD) approved RPS Biologiques’ veterinary health products (VHP), Supratect-L and Supratect-, a veterinary health products made entirely from common plant materials that supports healthy fish and fish eggs.

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have developed a species-specific feed to meet the need for suitable nutrients for lobster larvae.

The company announced the dissolution of its joint venture with AquaChile and the opportunity it had to control the salmon breeding operation in Chile and pursue an independent strategy.

Troutlodge has been designated as a RSPCA Assured producer of rainbow trout, a certification of high animal welfare standards in all areas of production.

Researchers found that it is possible to change the fatty acid composition of farmed salmon through breeding. It can further help to utilize omega-3 in feed more effectively.

The breeding and genetics division conducts research and provides services for the development and operation of aquaculture breeding programs where the use of genomic information plays a central role.

After three years of research in an R&D facility located in southern Israel, AquaMaof has successfully adapted its RAS technology for land-based production of shrimp with high-survival rates and disease-free results. It will be ready for market in 2020.

FRIPPAK range wins the Best Functional Product in Chinese Aquaculture Feed Industry 2019 award.