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Responsible Seafood Summit 2023 blog – the Advocate reports from Saint John
Editors James Wright and Lisa Jackson are in Saint John reporting from the Global Seafood Alliance's Responsible Seafood Summit.
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Could this new shucker change the way we open oysters?
John Nicholas believes oysters are perfect, they just need to be opened properly. So he invented what he says is a fast and safe oyster shucker.
Innovation & Investment
Responsible Seafood Innovation Award finalist Cresponix is rethinking land-based shrimp farming
Swedish startup’s technology addresses the two primary cost centers for land-based shrimp farming: energy and feed. And it’s not RAS.
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Ghana’s Lake Volta tilapia farming leader eyes a new growth curve
Francisco Murillo discusses how Tropo Farms is modernizing tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa and building the Volta Catch brand in Ghana.
Innovation & Investment
‘Everyone is going to need a lot of seaweed’: Maine-based seaweed polymer innovator wants fisheries and aquaculture to quit plastics
Viable Gear Founder Katie Weiler joined the Advocate and Aquademia to discuss making lobster bait bags and other products with a seaweed polymer.
Innovation & Investment
‘We have 15 years to fix this planet’: Blue Food Innovation Summit explores potential of restorative aquaculture – and the challenges to scaling
At the Blue Food Innovation Summit, discussions centered on restorative aquaculture’s potential and financing the ocean’s capabilities.
Innovation & Investment
Blue Food Innovation Summit a deep dive into ‘an agenda full of opportunity’
Attendees of the Blue Food Innovation Summit were urged to “raise the bar for what good production looks like" in fisheries and aquaculture.
Innovation & Investment
Blue Food Innovation Summit seeks to quicken aquaculture’s pace of progress
The Blue Food Innovation Summit will showcase how aquaculture technology, intelligence and collaboration lead to continual improvement on the water.
Health & Welfare
Coho salmon farmer sees Ike Jime partnership as a welfare and quality differentiator
New York-based Local Coho is the first aquaculture company to partner with Shinkei Systems and its automated Ike Jime humane slaughter technology.
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‘We’re doing a lot of things that aren’t being done,’ says Los Angeles shrimp farm founder
Steve Sutton, CEO of TransparentSea Farm, joins the Advocate and Aquademia to talk shrimp and the carbon-capture technology investors should look at.
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AI is becoming an ‘integral part’ of fisheries management and seafood processing
Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a larger role in seafood, as data is at the heart of the so-called fourth industrial revolution.
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NASF continues with deep dives into fisheries, aquafeeds and international conflicts
Day two of the North Atlantic Seafood Forum delves into geopolitical conflicts that bleed into fishery management and sustainability initiatives.
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NASF kicks off with a focus on sea lice and aquaculture innovation
Sea lice prevention technologies are big business in Norway. Several solutions were on display at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen.
Fisheries
Frustrated aquafeed companies decry stagnant Northeast Atlantic blue whiting quota negotiations
Aquafeed companies will bail on the blue whiting fishery unless coastal states agree to quotas aligned with scientific advice. Time is running out.
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EDF’s Rod Fujita discusses offshore aquaculture opportunities and potential pitfalls
Rod Fujita of Environmental Defense Fund discusses new offshore aquaculture research and what missteps a 'nascent' U.S. industry must avoid.
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Back on stage: GOAL returns to tackle a wide range of seafood subjects
GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference in Seattle features a diverse range of speakers with varied backgrounds and areas of expertise.