
Innovation & Investment
Lightweight fish pen designer aims to help move aquaculture to deeper seas
Researchers have designed a new lightweight fish pen that can be used for farming fish in deeper parts of the ocean.
Intelligence
Tribal leaders, veterinarians and other salmon farming proponents are expressing resolve in the face of Washington state's ban on net pens.
Innovation & Investment
Researchers have designed a new lightweight fish pen that can be used for farming fish in deeper parts of the ocean.
Innovation & Investment
Aquaculture is witnessing a shift in net pen cleaning operations as some operators say biofouling is becoming “even worse than disease.”
Innovation & Investment
Aquaculture equipment manufacturer AKVA Group says its new ocean net pens are free of polystyrene, a plastic foam common in consumer packaging.
Innovation & Investment
The aquaculture industry is paying greater attention to net technology, in terms of materials and maintenance, because of its impact on the bottom line.
Responsibility
Canada and the United States may be friendly neighbors, but when it comes to aquaculture, the bordering countries take vastly different approaches to aquaculture in the Great Lakes.
Health & Welfare
In research for Norway’s salmon farmers, the authors documented effective bath treatments against sea lice infestations in large net pens using skirts or tarpaulins to define the treatment area.
Responsibility
In a comparison of tank culture and net pen farming of almaco jack, the offshore operations were about twice as efficient per kilogram of product in terms of energy use and carbon inputs.