Minnowtech was awarded a $999,780 grant that will focus on the development of its sonar-based product for the company’s upcoming commercialization stage.

The implementation of new technology at scale will is expected to increase national aquaculture production reducing operation costs and increasing farmers' yield. 

The five-year partnership aims to develop joint and specific actions to strengthen decision-making related to shrimp production.

Genotyping tool developed by the Center for Aquaculture Technologies is a practical tool for the implementation of genomic selection in shrimp breeding, according to a new study.

The company, together with the Edes Business School of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, will train and improve income potential for 100 women from Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Ecuador.

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 new genomic tool will help whiteleg shrimp producers improve their genetic programs and identify shrimp families raised in grow-out ponds. 

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 goal is to boost the productivity, export, energy efficiency and marketing opportunities of more than 2,300 shrimp companies in the provinces of Guayas, El Oro, Manabí, Esmeraldas and Santa Elena.

Major shrimp producers in Ecuador aim to produce the highest quality and safest shrimp while committing to the highest levels of accountability.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium announced a new public-private partnership to reach a minimum of a Seafood Watch Good Alternative rating or equivalent by 2025.

Aquaconnect partnered with Bank of Baroda to pave the way for access to formal credit for 1.6 million aquaculture farmers. 

The agreement aims to promote the highest social and environmental standards and encourage their adoption by Ecuadorian shrimp producers through ASC certification.

The companies, together with Ecuacultivos, invested $25 million in a new shrimp genetics facility in Ayangue, Santa Elena province, Ecuador.

The new system offers a holistic vision of all production management, combining a quality product with specialized advice and the management of integrated field technologies.

The company hopes to introduce CP Kong, an SPF WSSV tolerant, robust shrimp strain, into Latin America if it proves successful in China.

The company is now the exclusive distributor of Topsy Bait’s live SPF polychaetes in Vietnam and India.

Indian shrimp farmers in Andhra Pradesh can now book SPF vannamei broodstock.

The company will also increase the charter capital in its subsidiary Minh Phu Ninh Thuan Aquatic Larvae Co., Ltd. that produces shrimp seeds and is located in Ninh Phuoc district.

The new vannamei line is more resistant to disease outbreaks and does not lose its ability to grow fast.