Can the sector grow to provide seafood and jobs in harmony with the ocean? THE NATURE CONSERVANCY Terry Sawyer comes from a long line of farmers and ranchers, and he’s learned a lot from his family—about maintaining the health of his broodstock and selecting the strongest performers for breeding; about managing the employees who help […]
NPR September 18, 2019 Leah Douglas Americans eat an average of 16 pounds of fish each year, and that number is growing. But how to meet our demand for fish is a controversial question, one that is entering a new chapter as the Environmental Protection Agency seeks to approve the nation’s only aquaculture pen in […]
Fish ponds have scarred coastal environments in Asia, but offshore fish farms might save wetlands and improve yields chinadialogueocean Along the shore of northern Java, the most densely populated island in Indonesia, they thought they had it made back in the 1980s, when the craze for turning mangrove swamps into prawn ponds took hold. Prawn […]
NEWS PROVIDED BYThe Fish Site 17 July 2019 / The Fish Site Offshore finfish farming operations can have “minimal impacts to the surrounding waters”, according to the results of a new study. The conclusion follows the investigation into the waters from Open Blue’s cobia production site off the coast of Panama, by scientists at the University […]
NEWS PROVIDED BYInnovaSea BOSTON and HALIFAX, Nova Scotia and BERGEN, Norway, March 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Innovasea Systems announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Norway-based Nortek Akvakultur. Nortek Akvakultur has been combined with Innovasea’s Realtime Aquaculture unit to form the Innovasea Instrumentation team.
July 5, 2018 / Business Wire / — This afternoon SEMARNAT, CONAPESCA and the office of the Governor of Baja California Sur joined forces with Earth Ocean Farms to release 40,000 juvenile totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in the Sea of Cortez with the goal of re-populating this species which is at risk of extinction due to overfishing […]
June 19, 2018 / Madelyn Kearns, Seafood Source / — Selected from a pool of 17 finalists, the 2018 Champions “reflect a seafood marketplace striving for even greater environmental, social, and economic sustainability,” said Diversified Communications, an organizer of the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in partnership with SeaWeb. Read more >
ATLANTIC CANADA, Feb. 15, 2018 /Paul Withers, CBS News/ — A consortium of Atlantic Canada-based companies has won a share of nearly a billion dollars in federal government innovation funding, but it’s not clear how much that funding will amount to for the group. Read more >
BOSTON, Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — InnovaSea Systems announced today that it has acquired by Canada based Amirix Systems. Amirix is the parent company of Bedford Nova Scotia based Vemco and Realtime Aquaculture and Seattle Washington based HTI-Vemco. Read more >
PHYS.ORG: A new analysis suggests that open-ocean aquaculture for three species of finfish is a viable option for industry expansion under most climate change scenarios – an option that may provide a new source of protein for the world’s growing population. This modeling study found that the warming of near-shore surface waters would shift […]