True North salmon from Atlantic Canada and Maine is now certified to the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards, allowing the company to offer three-star salmon. True North salmon is produced by Cooke Aquaculture Inc. - North America?s largest vertically integrated, independent salmon-farming company. Cooke has attained three-star BAP certification for its processing operations, its Northeast Nutrition Inc. feed mill and several salmon farm sites - with plans to add more farm sites, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) announce

The U.S. Senate passed the five-year 2014 Farm Bill, February 4, 2014, ending three years of deliberations. The bill has been sent to the President for signature. The American Feed Industry Association applauded the passage of the Bill.

A new study indicates that the in-feed delousing agent diflubenzuron is not damaging to cod

The government of South Korea and FAO have agreed to work closely together to promote responsible fishing and aquaculture in the developing world. The cooperation program will target technical assistance, policy advice, and capacity-building to developing countries

Aquaculture will provide close to two thirds of global food fish consumption by 2030 as catches from wild capture fisheries level off and demand from an emerging global middle class, especially in China, substantially increases. This is among the key findings of \"Fish to 2030: Prospects for Fisheries and Aquaculture,\" a collaboration between the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), released today. The report highlights the extent of global trade in seafood which tends to flow heavily from developing to developed countries

From alligators to water gardens and fish to oysters, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service new Aquaculture Fisheries and Pond Management website has those topics covered and more

Marine Harvest is the first vertically integrated aquaculture company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange

Major changes in how the planet\'s marine resources are managed and used are needed to safeguard global food security and ensure the wellbeing of coastal and island countries, FAO Director-General Jos? Graziano da Silva told a group of high level policymakers meeting in Abu Dhabi.

EWOS has developed sophisticated health feeds that support farmed salmon through recovery from inflammatory diseases like pancreas disease (PD), heart skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) and cardio-myopathy syndrome (CMS). The results are improved growth and survival.

Mr Moses Amos has been appointed Director of SPC?s Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) Division. He will take up this position in SPC?s management team March 1, 2014

In a letter to the editor of Britain\'s The Independent newspaper,the Director General of IFFO,Andrew Mallison, expressed concerns about overfishing being cited as a reason for Rothamsted Research to develop genetically modified plants to produce oils normally found in fish.

A draft of the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) hatchery and nursery standards for finfish, crustaceans and mollusks is now available for public comment for 60 days.

NOAA Sea Grant expects to have up to $3,000,000 available for a national competition to fund new FY\'14 marine aquaculture research projects

Two people have been reported dead and four critically injured in an accident at International Nutrition\'s Omaha, Nebraska, feedmill on Monday. The company produces feed for all species, including aquaculture

Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre officially opened its new Hezhoubei Research Station in the Guangdong Province, China January 21, 2014. This new station becomes Skretting?s main research facility for shrimp and Asian fish species

a project to identify obstacles in regulations and rules that must be changed to increase the production of organic fish, has been initiated. The objective is to pave the way for increased organic aquaculture in Europe

The red carotenoid canthaxanthin is approved by EFSA at a concentration of 100 mg/kg feed for ornamental fish in feed

Benemilk Ltd, a joint venture of Raisio and Intellectual Ventures, has filed a United States patent application for a Finnish fish feed invention and is starting the commercialization of the rapeseed-oil based feed in the USA

The project ?Designing technologies to calculate total fish biomass levels in offshore aquaculture facilities? has been successfully concluded and provides important results for the aquaculture sector

The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and the Seafood Importers Association of Australasia (SIAA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), in which the two organizations will work collaboratively to advance responsible aquaculture