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AquaPartners Australia seeks $65M to kickstart RAS project

The Australian-based arm of Danish aquaculture company AquaPartners APS is proposing to build a land-based fish farm in a 100-hectare site it owns in Avalon, some 45 kilometres west of Melbourne.


AquaBounty plans its next RAS project

AquaBounty Technologies, the aquaculture company known for its development of genetically modified salmon, is poised for another land-based farm.


Antibiotic use in fish farms poses human threat: study

Massive and inappropriate use of antibiotics to treat or prevent disease in farmed fish fosters the development of resistant bacteria that have the potential of harming humans. This was the finding of a recent study conducted by researchers from France’s Institute of Development and Research, and Center for International Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development.
 
 
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RAS producers learning to ‘pivot’ in COVID-19

If there is one insight to be gleaned from the global pandemic that has rocked the world this year, it is the need to strengthen domestic, sustainable food production. » Read more
 

Bangkok shrimp producer builds RAS facility in Florida

Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) is transforming a former citrus grove in Indiantown, Florida, into a 40-acre land-based shrimp farm that will be a testing ground for the Bangkok-based company’s aquaculture operations in the United States and other parts of the world. » Read more
 
 
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Andfjord expects 10,000 MT output for Kvalnes facility

If all goes according to plan, Andfjord Salmon hopes to introduce the first batch of smolt into pool pits of its land-based aquaculture facility in Kvalnes, Norway by late summer this year. » Read more

Women in Aquaculture scholarship fund now accepting applicants

Norwegian salmon producer Kvarøy Arctic has teamed up with the not-for-profit student assistance organization James Beard Foundation to roll out a scholarship program aimed at women studying aquaculture at a college or university in any country. » Read more

Nordic Aquafarms to expand California RAS project

Nordic Aquafarms Inc. announced plans to broaden its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) project on the Samoa Peninsula in Humboldt County, California. The new plan calls for leasing an additional three acres from the Humboldt Bay Harbor Recreation and Conservatory District. » Read more

Getting consumer buy-in for aquaculture

Public concern towards aquaculture practices is apparent but the need to make people aware of the need and benefit of seafood consumption is clear. » Read more