Hendrix Genetics and Plant & Food Research have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop underwater vision technology for measuring aquaculture breeding stock, using trout as a test case.

The State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture report states that only around 10 percent of global aquaculture is of improved strains resulting from well-managed selective breeding programs.

Total tilapia Production in Colombia is 70,000 tons, from those 60% are red tilapia and the remaining 40% are Nile tilapia.

ICAR-Central Institute Brackishwater Aquaculture, Chennai has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with M/s.Techno feeder, Pvt. Ltd for the technology transfer of ‘Colourfishfeed’, a scientifically formulated feed designed for health and color of ornamental fish, rather than growth, which is not the primary objective in aquarium feeds.

The Australian Research Council will support the establishment of the world’s first sustainable onshore lobster aquaculture industry.

The facility aims at produce local microalgal strains already selected by researchers.

The replacement of fishmeal by plant-based meal, alone or in combination with fish oil in diets for gilthead sea bream broodstock, negatively affects growth performance of juvenile offspring.

Focused on improving market competitiveness for domestic aquaculture producers, the project will initially focus on Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) and red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) as model species for improvement.

Since the demand of GIFT tilapia is increasing, a new hatchery was built to pave the way for the sector’s development.

The company operates a bio-secure closed breeding nucleus to which no external fish have been introduced since 2009, and have been screening against TiLV for the past 3 years without findings detected.

A consortium in Scotland is taking a significant step toward the development of a commercial vaccine for rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS), a pervasive disease among trout, as the industry aims to improve fish welfare and unlock the sector’s potential.

After the cyclone Idai destroyed the first tilapia hatchery in Mozambique, the company donated 500 set of YY broodstock to support the hatchery.

L’Étang Ruisseau Bar Ltée (ERB) is teaming up with Université Laval, Genome Atlantic and Génome Québec on a $3.8 million project using genomics to produce the first selectively bred Canadian strain of Eastern oyster.

Benchmark discovered a significant quantitative trait locus (“QTL”) for Streptococcus iniae resistance in tilapia that will be used to select broodstock with high levels of Streptococcus iniae resistance for the production of commercial fry.

The salmon were in excess of 1kg, matching the size of a small proportion of salmon grown on-land by the world’s leading salmon companies based in Norway and the Faroe Islands.

Mark Plampin will step down from his role of Chief Financial Officer.

Philippe Léger will hand over his role as Managing Director of Benchmark’s Advanced Nutrition and CEO of INVE Aquaculture to Athene Blakeman.  The company recently celebrated 35 years of service to global aquaculture.

The new innovations, that will be added to the SEP-Art concept, will allow Artemia cysts to hatch in the dark and to suppress Vibrio growth.

CONAPESCA has inaugurated Genamex, which will produce certified shrimp broodstocks of high health and high genetic variety and will supply larvae production laboratories at a national level to improve the performance of crustacean production.

After just over 12 months of construction, Benchmark’s new facility, SalmoBreed Salten, has officially opened. The company said that the site is the most advanced land-based facility for the production of salmon eggs in the world.