Salmon Farming News
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New product line with enhanced genetic improvements
In 2024 Benchmark Genetics launched a new optimised Salmon Ova Product Line with refined selection methods designed to elevate genetic performance with enhanced selection intensity of traits for salmon growth and robustness. Our new product line offers high genetic potential for freshwater and seawater growth performance, high resistance to specific diseases, including IPN and CMS, and solid ...
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Women in Benchmark, who make a difference in aquaculture: Berta Contreras Mutis
Since September 2023, Berta Contrera Mutis, marine chemist by profession occupies the position of General Manager in Benchmark Genetics Chile, based in the city of Puerto Varas, surrounded by lakes and mountains in the south of the country. From there, she leads a large group of professionals, which includes the operation of two piscicultures: Curacalco and Ensenada, where, after sophisticated ...
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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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Berta Contreras is a new Managing Director in Benchmark´s Chilean
Benchmark Genetics Chile is pleased to announce that effective September 18, 2023, Berta Contreras Mutis has assumed the role of General Manager, succeeding Pablo Mazo, who has transitioned to the position of Performance and Documentation Manager at Benchmark Genetics in Norway. Berta Contreras Mutis, a marine chemist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with an MBA from ...
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Aqua Nor 2021 sees agreement between Benchmark Genetics and Premium Svensk Lax
Benchmark Genetics has signed a long-term agreement with Premium Svensk Lax, for the delivery of salmon eggs to the company’s new plant, which is currently under construction in Säffle, Värmland in Sweden. Premium Svensk Lax’s new plant will be designed to produce 10,000 tons of Atlantic salmon annually, with the facility scheduled for full-scale production in 2024. The ...
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Belfast councillors vote favours Nordic Aquafarms
Following a heated public hearing, councillors of Belfast, Maine voted in favour of proceeding with an eminent domain action that would allow Nordic Aquafarms access through a stretch of intertidal mudflat. The decision means that Norwegian aquaculture has cleared another hurdle to its $500 million recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) project in the city and can now run intake and outfall ...
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Finding the Optimal Feeding Times for Your Aqua Farm
You probably already know that fish diets require specific nutrients, in specific forms, for their bodies to properly digest and utilize. But have you thought about or decided what time of day you are going to feed your fish? Or how many times a day? If you have a large farm with many ponds spread across long distances, how are you going to make sure all your fish get fed the right amount of ...
By Aquasend
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Fish supplies face rising threat from algal blooms
Toxic algal blooms that can kill fish – and sometimes humans – cause severe economic losses and are an increasing danger to food supplies. The threat has increased dramatically, not because the quantity of algae is necessarily increasing, but because humankind is relying more and more on aquaculture to provide fish. There has been a 16-fold increase in fish farming since 1985. ...
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AquaBounty Announces First Harvest of GE Atlantic Salmon; Receives Approval for the Sale of GE Atlantic Salmon in Brazil
AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQB) (“AquaBounty” or the “Company”), a land-based aquaculture company utilizing technology to enhance productivity and sustainability, today announced: the successful completion of the first commercial scale harvest of its genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon at the Albany, Indiana Farm; the regulatory approval of the ...
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AKVA group supply latest Mowi Scotland salmon farm installation
AKVA group were chosen as the supplier for Mowi Scotland’s first 160m pen installation at Loch Seaforth Isle of Harris, 10 pens are now secured on site. Mowi seaforth site (Photo: Arthur Campbell) In addition to the 10x 160m pens AKVA also supplied the sites with 2 new mooring grids, bird nets and fibreglass poles. AKVA group have also delivered 2 HDPE nets in partnership ...
By AKVA Group
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AquaBounty Sells Out the First Commercial-Scale Harvest of Genetically Engineered Atlantic Salmon from its Indiana Farm
AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQB) (“AquaBounty” or the “Company”), a land-based aquaculture company utilizing technology to enhance productivity and sustainability, today announced that purchase orders have been received for the planned harvest of 5 metric tons of its genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon. The first harvest is scheduled to be conducted at ...
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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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How robots can be aquaculture`s next caretakers
Only 44 Young Research Talents in all of Norway were awarded FRIPRO scholarships. Senior Researcher Eleni Kelasidi of SINTEF Ocean was one of them. Now she is looking forward to diving into a world where fish and underwater robots happily coexist. SINTEF ACE, Rataren. Foto: SINTEF/Magnus Oshaug Pedersen "I was so excited when I found out", says Eleni Kelasidi (38), her face bursting ...
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AquaBounty Hires Dennis Bryant as Director of Sales
AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AQB) (“AquaBounty” or the “Company”), a pioneering land-based aquaculture company, today announced it has hired Dennis Bryant as its new Director of Sales. In this role, Bryant will oversee company sales initiatives which include all aspects of building and servicing its growing customer partnerships. Bryant, formerly the Managing ...
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AquaBounty Technologies Announces Results for the Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2020
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 the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020. Fourth Quarter 2020 and Subsequent Key Highlights Selected Innovasea, a global ...
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New Study Highlights Need to Broaden Environmental Monitoring at Fish Farms
As humans we don’t often think about how much oxygen is contained in the air because there is always more than enough for us to breathe. Underwater things are a little different. Oxygen concentrations are constantly changing due to changes in temperature, salinity, wind and currents. Fish take up oxygen over their gills and have minimum oxygen requirements that must be met for them to ...
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Immaris – Shows promise as Immune Boosting Feed Additive
Oreka Solutions and the University of Idaho announced today ground-breaking research showing that Oreka’s insect-based feed ingredient Immaris could help trout and salmon generate an enhanced immunostimulatory response during infections such as Cold Water Disease (CWD). Cold Water Disease (CWD) is one of the major diseases affecting trout and salmon farming. According to the USDA, CWD ...
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Chile Mandates Real-time Environmental Monitoring at Salmon Farms
Ocean-based fish farms in Chile have been ordered by Chilean officials to start monitoring environmental conditions in and around their pens in real time and immediately transmit the data to government environmental agencies. According to the August regulation from the Superintendencia de Medioambiente (SMA), ocean-based aquaculture sites will need to monitor water conditions for dissolved ...
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FQSA and ASF Support Quebec Government in regulating salmon egg import
The Quebec Atlantic Salmon Federation (Fédération québécoise pour le saumon atlantique – FQSA) is pleased with the measures instituted by Quebec’s department of forestry, wildlife and parks, i.e. the Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs (MFFP). Since June 10th of this year, the resulting amendment of section 28 of the Regulation ...
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New Brunswickers Want More Protected Land
A survey of 500 New Brunswickers conducted between September 1st and 3rd shows overwhelming support for conserving forests and protecting critical habitat for fish and wildlife, with voters looking favourably on parties willing to act. The poll conducted for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, Conservation Council of New Brunswick, and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society found nine in 10 (87%) ...
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