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B.C. land-based steelhead farm waiting for regulatory approval

Principals of a Vancouver, B.C.-based aquaculture company, which aims to raise 3,000 tons of steelhead annually, say they are now just waiting for provincial and federal approval to break ground on the project.


Plug-and-play shipping container RAS system proposed

A Finish research institute is testing a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) that implements a modular concept borrowed from shipping containers. In fact, the key equipment of the RAS system proposed by Finland’s Natural Resources Institute (LUKE) is housed in “plug-and-play” shipping containers.


8F aquaculture fund raises US $61 million in first closing

Singapore-based private equity firm 8F Asset Management reported that the first closing of its 8F Aquaculture South-East Asia Fund yielded US $61 million in funding. The company said it hopes to raise as much as $120 million with the fund, which is a follow-up to 8F’s earlier funding project in 2020.
 
 
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From the Editor: An eventful year

Does anyone else feel like this year absolutely flew by? Mentally, I think I’m still living in 2019 (and many of you might feel the same way), as the world still looks to get back to some form of ‘normal’. But will we ever get back to ‘normal’? With so many challenges impacting not just our industry and jobs, but our personal lives as well, many aspects that we once thought were normal, have forever changed. We need to not only continue to adjust to the new normal, but accept it as well. » Read more
 
 
INDUSTRY UPDATE 
 

From high fashion threads to prime fish feed

A former executive of the iconic British fashion retailer Burberry Ltd., will be threading a new path as the head of procurement for Dutch fish feed giant Nutreco. Paul Bestford spearheaded all of Burberry’s indirect expenditures in excess of $1 billion across the company’s global business from 2017 to 2020. » Read more

Fire destroys stock at Atlantic Sapphire RAS facility in Denmark

A nighttime blaze on Wednesday, Sept. 15 severely damaged fish tanks at the recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility of Atlantic Sapphire in Hvide Sande, Denmark. The Danish aquaculture company reported that all workers at the facility managed to escape to safety without injury and that the fire was under control by 6 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16. » Read more
 
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Aquaculture Europe 2021

Oct. 4-7, 2021
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
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RAS Virtual Summit 2021

Nov. 3, 2021
Virtual Event
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World Aquaculture 2021

Nov. 8-12, 2021
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
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