Precision salmon: Optimizing welfare through data-driven insights
The GAIN project’s precision aquaculture series continues with a look at how data-driven insights into salmon behavior can aid farm management.
Blockchain expands its aquaculture presence with shrimp and salmon
By tracking products from farm to plate, blockchain helps reduce fraud and improve standing with consumers. But it’s only part of the solution.
Precision trout: Optimizing oxygen for better welfare and production
Dynamic modeling for oxygen optimization in trout leads to better welfare and production as part of GAIN, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Fund.
Poll: Americans want local seafood, stronger protections
U.S. NGO Environmental Defense Fund polls registered voters and finds that 84 percent would support a well-regulated aquaculture industry.
American Unagi breaks ground on land-based eel farm in Maine
Eel producer American Unagi has broken ground on a 27,000-square-foot recirculating aquaculture system near the coast of Maine.
Precision sea bass: New technologies at Mediterranean Seafarms
As seen through the GAIN project, adopting precision aquaculture tools improve feeding strategies and preventative measures for sea bass.
Precision aquaculture, part 1: Data and evidence-based management
Adopting precision aquaculture can aid a farm’s integration with the community. Learn more in the first article from the GAIN project.
Trout might be the fish America needs right now
Boasting a bright red-orange and oil-rich fillet like salmon, trout can be grown to market size faster and are often less expensive.
After first harvest, offshore aquaculture venture in Qatar sets fresh ambitions
With a successful sea bass harvest last fall, Qatar’s only offshore aquaculture venture now seeks to double production and diversify into other species.
How a land-preservation easement saved a California oyster company
Hog Island Oyster Company got some last-minute help from Marin Agricultural Land Trust, the first-ever land-preservation easement for mariculture.
Kelp is the climate-friendly crop that could
Kelp aquaculture is poised for growth on both U.S. coasts, but one grower network in Maine is building a brand and demand for domestic seaweed.
Seafood’s newfound retail popularity has a permanent feel to it
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed seafood in mostly positive ways, according to a retail survey commissioned by the Global Seafood Alliance.
Donald Lightner, influential figure in shrimp aquaculture, remembered
Donald Lightner, pre-eminent shrimp pathology researcher and longtime head of the University of Arizona Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, has died.
An urchin opportunity awaits in New England
To both restore waterways and meet a growing demand for the so-called “foie gras” of the sea, researchers are stepping up efforts to restore green sea urchins.
They sell shellfish shares by the seashore: A surge of oyster CSAs
During the pandemic, several U.S. shellfish farmers have found much-needed relief through community supported aquaculture programs, or CSAs.
Seaspiracy film assails fishing and aquaculture sectors that seem ready for a good fight
Seaspiracy, a new Netflix documentary-style film, depicts the fishing and aquaculture in an ugly fashion but the industry response is swift.