Report on viability of land-farmed salmon expected
The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute in West Virginia has been experimenting with large-scale, on land salmon farming. The private non-profit is ready to release a report on its findings soon....
View ArticleFarm-raised Atlantic salmon retains healthy Omega-3s when baked
Nearly 85 percent of seafood enjoyed by U.S. consumers is imported, and almost half of that is farm raised through a process called “aquaculture,” according to the National Aquaculture Association,...
View ArticleFarm waves goodbye to conventional power
A groundbreaking project off the west coast of Scotland will see wave energy being used to power the equipment on a salmon farm. Marine Harvest Scotland has applied for permission to site a prototype...
View ArticleFarmed vs. wild salmon: Can you taste the difference?
Read a story about salmon, and the odds are good that, somewhere, it’ll tell you that wild salmon tastes better than farmed. But does it? We decided to find out in a blind tasting, and assembled a...
View ArticleAquaculture jobs in Alaska: now this IS exciting!
Looking for a job in aquaculture? Perhaps you are a skilled biologist, hatchery technician or fish farmer? These are all careers available in Alaska, now. The following text is taken (unedited) from...
View ArticleSalmon and cod aquaculture complex to be built in China
On the 21 October 2013, Norwegian companies Futurama and AquaOptima signed an agreement with Lim Shrimp Organization to create ‘Aquapolis’, the world’s first land based fully intergrated salmon and cod...
View ArticleAquaBounty GM Salmon Eggs Cleared for Production in Canada
Environment Canada, the agency of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regulating environmental policies and issues, has decided that Genetically Modified (GM) AquAdvantage® Salmon from...
View ArticleRaising Atlantic salmon in rural Wisconsin
Order Atlantic salmon from a restaurant menu or pick out a fillet from a Madison grocery display case and it’s likely the fish was farm-raised in Chile, Scotland or, perhaps, Maine. And soon, likely...
View ArticlePathways to seafood sustainability debated in US
The Global Salmon Initiative (GSI), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation, and Rabobank joined up for the first time in the US last week to demonstrate how the...
View ArticleAtlantic salmon can be farmed on land, B.C. project shows
A British Columbia First Nation is using a workshop this week in St. Andrews to explain how it is growing Atlantic salmon without the fish ever seeing the ocean. The Namgis closed-containment facility...
View ArticleBritish Columbia aquaculture on CBS 60 minutes Sunday
It will probably be the largest audience Campbell River and Northern Vancouver Island has ever had. The most popular on air news magazine in North America, 60 Minuteson CBS with an average of 11.6...
View ArticleLarger salmon smolts produce healthier fat
Farmed salmon is rich in fat, but fillets of farmed salmon contain less marine omega-3 than previously, because a large fraction of the fish oil in the feed has been replaced by plant oil. Scientists...
View ArticleSeafood entrepreneur: Betting on US inland farmed salmon
Longtime fish farmer and former Villa Organic CEO Johan Andreassen is planning a bet on inland farming of Atlantic salmon in the United States. Now the chairman of Norway-based Atlantic Sapphire,...
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