Ocean 14 Capital Fund signed a deal to purchase a controlling stake in SyAqua, a group that supplies genetics and early nutrition for the shrimp hatchery market.

Slipper lobster larvae are reared in 30 days and go through four larval stages, compared to spiny lobsters that take 300 days through 11 larval stages.

Fast growth feeds, liquid feeds, genomic tools and breeding strategies were presented in the second shrimp session of the World Hatchery Forum. 

Simplicity, precision feeding and holistic management were some of the tools and solutions presented in the first shrimp session of the World Hatchery Forum.

The Department of Fisheries of Bangladesh has allowed hatcheries to cultivate whiteleg shrimp to test whether they can cope with the local environment.

The group implemented a complete production management solution for the vanammei hatcheries of Promarisco and Camanica, part of Nueva Pescanova Group, located in Ecuador and Nicaragua respectively.

The National Lobster Hatchery will test an enhanced larval vessel with conditions that enable greater survival rates at lobster larval stages. 

Both organizations partnered for a full value chain collaboration that will include deforestation-free aquafeeds and capacity-building initiatives to drive social change and sustainable best practices in the region.    

ASC added freshwater crayfish and shrimp to the Shrimp Standard and developed a RAS module, which includes new requirements that apply specifically to RAS farms.

Blue Genetics Mexico and Sea Products Development have merged to create Blue Genetics Global, a new player to meet the major challenges in the shrimp industry around the world. 

Genics developed new real-time PCR assays for the emerging pathogen DIV1 to mitigate disease risk and increase biosecurity awareness of the global shrimp industry.

The formulation of the third generation of EZ Artemia Ultra has been improved to incorporate new powerful ingredients while removing terrestrial proteins.

The new tool has high specificity and sensitivity, early detection from hemolymph, highly reproducible results with a time-to-result of only 20 minutes.

The company acquired AQ1 Systems, a producer of acoustic feeding technology for the shrimp farming industry, which will create new synergies between farming technologies and feed solutions.

The investment will be the most important of a series scheduled for the coming years to reach a production capacity of one million tons of balanced feed.

The company and Sapthagiri Hatcheries will jointly establish a broodstock multiplication center in Andhra Pradesh for the benefit of the Indian shrimp industry.

Umitron unveiled Umitron Eagle, its latest technology solution offering the world’s first real-time AI-based analytics solution to shrimp producers. 

The partnership will install local and independent KYTOS labs to serve aquaculture farms and hatcheries with microbiome management tools in six most of the important shrimp-producing countries.

The farm, which is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2023, includes a hatchery unit, a shrimp farm and a primary and secondary treatment unit. 

The main goal of the pilot was to generate key data elements for shrimp farms to support sustainable farming practices through insights into shrimp populations, farm health and contamination.