Cargill strikes marketing deal with insect farmer InnovaFeed Aquafeed producer Cargill has entered into a strategic partnership with French insect farmer InnovaFeed to bring fish farmers “sustainable and innovative feed options”.
Crunch time: Sainsbury’s puts salmon-skin crisps on trial Store chain Sainsbury’s has started stocking salmon-skin crisps, made from a by-product of the salmon smoking industry.
Seabed sulphide may be key to new salmon farms Salmon farmer Cooke Aquaculture and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) are leading a transatlantic effort to explore how measuring sulphides on the seabed could better track the impact of biomass from fish farms and open up expansion in high-energy areas.
Sanford workers pledge to fight salmon plant job cuts Workers at New Zealand salmon farmer Sanford have said they will fight plans to cut 30 jobs at the company’s processing plant, almost halving the workforce.
Norway considers zero emissions for service boats The Norwegian government is considering zero and low emission requirements for aquaculture service vessels, it said in a green shipping action plan launched yesterday.
M&S rewards Scottish Sea Farms for polystyrene purge Scottish Sea Farms has been given an innovation award by retailer Marks & Spencer for its efforts to replace boxes made from expanded polystyrene (EPS), a widely used plastic.
Benchmark finalises Aqua Nor seminar line-up Aquaculture breeding, genetics, health and technology company Benchmark has finalised the programme for a seminar it is staging at the world’s biggest aquaculture trade show, Aqua Nor, in August.
Russian salmon farmer to build smolt plant in Murmansk Aquaculture equipment supplier AKVA has won a €11.9 million (£10.6m) tender to deliver a new smolt facility in Murmansk, Russia, it announced today.
Atlantic Sapphire agrees land deal for huge expansion On-land salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire is to buy an extra 80 acres of land next to its existing 80-acre site in Miami to allow it to ramp up production to 220,000 tonnes a year by 2030, it said today.
Salmon ‘eat more with sonar feed system’ Autonomous feeding system developer CageEye has reported good results after a year’s testing with a Norwegian salmon farmer, Austevoll Melaks.
Chile ‘moving towards salmon feeds without fish oil’ Several feeds made without fish oil will be available to Chilean salmon farmers within the next two years, the president of salmon producers’ organisation SalmonChile has promised.
BioMar to supply greener feed to Chinese trout grower Aquafeed producer BioMar has signed a deal with China’s largest trout farmer to supply a high-performance feed that has just over half the environmental footprint of local Chinese feed.
Can power station gases fuel UK fish feed growth? The feasibility of using carbon dioxide captured from a British power station’s flue gases to make single cell proteins for use in fish and farm animal feed is to be tested in a pilot scheme, it was announced today.
Come aboard the world’s largest wellboat As the world’s largest wellboat, the Ronja Storm will not be just a few metres or tonnes larger than the current holder of the title. It defines its very own weight and equipment class. See picture gallery at the very bottom of the article.
Mowi writes the book on salmon farming The world’s biggest salmon farmer, Mowi, has provided a comprehensive overview of the industry in its Salmon Farming Industry Handbook 2019.
Bakkafrost planning 40% harvest increase by 2023 Faroese salmon farmer Bakkafrost estimates an increase of 40% in harvest volume in four years.
Anchoring the future for high-energy aquaculture A consortium of engineering experts is developing an innovative new anchoring technology for the Scottish aquaculture industry which would allow fish and shellfish farms to look at areas which are currently unsuitable for use.
Silicon Valley lice counter inventor targets Scotland The Norwegian-American company Aquabyte, which develops systems for automatic lice counting through machine learning, has set its sights on Scotland and Canada after announcing that it has raised $10 million in a financing round to strengthen its growth.
Cargill marine content of feed reduced in 2018 Aquaculture feed manufacturer Cargill reduced the amount of marine ingredients in the salmon feeds it sold in 2018 to 27.6% compared to 30.7% in 2017.
Feed manufacturer commits to more insect ingredients Aquafeed manufacturer Skretting has signed a deal with black soldier fly farmer Protix that could see up to 5.5 million salmon servings per year brought to market with insect meal incorporated into the feed.
€20m insect protein facility to be built in France Plans for a €20 million insect protein facility in Amiens, France were today unveiled in Paris.
