Fish Breeding News
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Geir OlavMelingen: A year of customer-focused strategy
We have now closed our financial year and as we move towards the end of 2023, I want to look back at this year’s highlights, changes in our teams’ structure, and events we participated in. Firstly, my role has changed twice this year, on the 1st of June I started as Head of Genetics following four years in Commercial Director roles at Benchmark. Then as part of our continuous ...
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Dr. Maria Nayfa has recently joined Benchmark’s Genetics team
Maria joins us after having worked in the aquaculture industry in both Singapore and Australia. Her experience revolves around the use of genetics in aquaculture selective breeding programs to improve global food security and aquaculture production. In particular, she has experience in applied aquaculture genetics, quantitative genetics, population genetics, and the use of molecular data to ...
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Lifeasible Updated Its Plant Disease Identification Service Recently
Plant research innovators can now leverage updated plant disease identification service from Lifeasible, designed to improve food security and agricultural sustainability across the world. The formation and development of plant diseases involve three factors: plants, pathogens and environment. In agricultural production, human activities have an important impact on the occurrence and prevalence ...
By Lifeasible
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Producing high-quality hybrid catfish with freshwater fish oil
Low levels of freshwater fish oil can go a long way in improving performance indicators of aquacultured hybrid catfish broodstock. This was observed in hybrid catfish broodstock fed with one and two per cent FFO-supplemented diets in an experiment at the Maejo University in Thailand. “We found out that supplementation of low levels of freshwater fish oil to standard manufactured fish food ...
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Fish Feed Extruder Machine Can Make Floating Fish Food Pellets
Fish feed on organic materials or feed prepared for survival. For fish farmers, it is crucial to ensure that the fish can get all the food they need in terms of quantity and quality. In fact, feed accounts for almost 50% of the total production cost. Therefore, farmers need to spend a lot of time and energy to determine the correct feed. Here, floating fish feed machine can solve many problems ...
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AquaBounty Technologies Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQB) (“AquaBounty” or the “Company”), a land-based aquaculture company utilizing technology to enhance productivity and sustainability, today announced the Company’s financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended March 31, 2021. First Quarter 2021 Key Highlights Fortified balance sheet with $127.1 million in gross ...
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Supporting Turkey’s aquaculture growth plans
At the 8th Annual Turkish Aquaculture Association symposium and workshop, hosted by the Central Union of Aquaculture Producers, Aquaculture R&D Director of Hendrix Genetics Robbert Blonk presented the latest insights in the world of aquaculture breeding and genetics. In addition, he shared knowledge on the importance of good husbandry and environmental conditions to obtain the best ...
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Historical early delivery of rainbow trout eggs
The season’s first rainbow trout eggs from the AquaGen strain was delivered to Hofseth Aqua in Tafjord, Norway on November 19th, 2019, two months earlier than normal. With access to these early eggs, the smolt can be put to sea in spring, benefit from good growth through the summer and be harvested the following spring after 10 months in the sea. Rainbow trout production in the sea is ...
By Aqua Gen AS
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Do You Know How To Make Catfish Feed Pellets
There are a lot of farmers choose to breed catfish, because it is relatively strong adaptability, and the growth rate is fast and mature is relatively fast, so it means that there is a higher economic benefit, but in the process of breeding catfish must pay attention to the principle of feed selection and feed feeding technology. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional fish feed pellet ...
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Wide Application Of Rotary Drum Dryer
With the development of agriculture, people pay more and more attention to agricultural and sideline products. The pollution of livestock manure to the environment is more and more serious, but cow manure is rich in nutrients and trace elements, it is a very good organic fertilizer. The development of cow manure as compound organic fertilizer can not only turn waste into treasure but also reduce ...
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ASF Statement on the Liberal Party of Canada’s commitment to transition B.C.`s salmon aquaculture industry to closed containment by 2025.
“The Atlantic Salmon Federation is encouraged by the Liberal Party of Canada’s campaign promise to transition the open net-pen salmon aquaculture industry in British Columbia to closed-containment systems by 2025. However, federal parties must govern federally, and a move to closed-containment salmon aquaculture should occur in all provinces where the industry is present. “The ...
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How To Make Catfish Feed
Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional fish feed pellet machine manufacturer, this article we will introduce the way of making catfish feed in detail. There are a lot of farmers choose to breed catfish, because it is relatively strong adaptability, and the growth rate is fast and mature is relatively fast, so it means that there is a higher economic benefit, but in the process of breeding ...
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Kilic Fisheries Hatchery Ras Skid Systems
KILIC FISHERIES HATCHERY SCOPE OF WORK Implementation of new LSS equipment for hatchery and growing tanks. Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri produces and exports different types of saltwater fish such as Mediterranean Sea Bream, Mediterranean Sea Bass, Meager, Rainbow Trout and Bluefin Tuna. With a harvestable fish production capacity of more than 45,000 tons per year, it is ...
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Workshop Offers Insight into Aquaculture
Ohio needs more fish farmers, and researchers at the Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development are working to meet that need. The center will offer a daylong introductory workshop on aquaculture and aquaponics Oct. 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The workshop, which will be held at The Ohio State University South Centers, 1864 Shyville Road in Piketon, is designed to offer participants ...
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Ohio State Aquaculture Boot Camp Program Recruiting New Fish Farmers
Want to learn how to become a fish farmer? The Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development at The Ohio State University South Centers is offering 30 new and beginning fish farmers an in-depth introduction to aquaculture and aquaponics and the business of fish farming through a yearlong program. Called Aquaculture Boot Camp-2 or ABC-2, the program’s goal is to increase the number ...
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Breeding more uniform Nile Tilapia
For fish farmers, uniformity of growth and body size is one of the key traits to be improved in future breeding programs. In domestic Nile Tilapia size differences among individuals are very large but the genetic background of this variability is almost entirely unknown. In a new study, published by Genetics Selection Evolution, researchers of Wageningen UR found that variability of harvest ...
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USSEC Attends World Soy-Feeds Conference in Russia
The World Soy-Feeds Conference is one of the main annual events in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) for local crushers, feed millers and livestock companies. Organized in Saint Petersburg, the event’s main goal is to disseminate the latest international information from the field of market trends, soy processing, and soy ingredient use in animal feeds by the rapidly ...
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Starts a breeding program for lumpfish
Namdal Rensefisk and AquaGen has today signed an agreement for the establishment and running of a breeding program for lumpfish. AquaGen is responsible for developing a genetically improved breeding material, and Namdal Rensefisk will produce offspring with features that are better adapted to the farming conditions and their function as a delouser of salmon. The results so far show great ...
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First-ever federal rules for offshore fish farming issued
The first-ever federal regulations for large-scale fish farming in the ocean were issued Monday, opening a new frontier in the harvesting of popular seafood species such as red drum, tuna and red snapper. The new rules allow the farming of fish in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The rules - in the making for years - were announced in New Orleans by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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What`s for dinner? Genetically engineered salmon OK`d by FDA
What's for dinner? Before long, it may well be genetically modified salmon, the first such altered animal cleared for human consumption in the United States. Critics call it "frankenfish," but the Food and Drug Administration granted its approval on Thursday, saying the faster-growing salmon is safe to eat. It could be available in a couple of years. "There are no biologically relevant ...
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