Intelligence
‘Away from the coast’: Latest Maine RAS venture chooses forest over seas
Land-based salmon farm Katahdin Salmon will be built far from the shoreline to where operational costs and conditions might lead to success sooner.
Innovation & Investment
Real-time fish mortality detection tool selected for NewTechAqua Award Challenge
The Freshwater Institute's fish mortality detection tool for RAS is designed to enable better welfare decision-making.
Responsibility
Marine aquaculture and ocean deacidification technology
Current deacidification techniques are limited to bench scale, highlighting need for sustained R&D before implementation is possible.
Intelligence
Land-based salmon aquaculture facility proposed for British Columbia
Taste of BC Aquafarms is seeking approval to build a salmon aquaculture facility that uses a land-based recirculatory aquaculture system.
Innovation & Investment
Urban shrimp farming concept named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022
Time has recognized Atarraya’s Shrimpbox, a “plug and play” technology for urban shrimp farming, as one of the best inventions of the year.
Intelligence
Kingfish Company gets final OK from Maine town for RAS farm
Jonesport, Maine, approved a building permit application for The Kingfish Company's planned land-based aquaculture facility for yellowtail.
Health & Welfare
Assessing bactericidal activity of peracetic acid to selected fish pathogens in RAS water
RAS producers should know about the effectiveness of peracetic acid in reducing populations of specific bacterial pathogens.
Intelligence
Kingfish Maine wins crucial vote as town rejects aquaculture moratorium
Kingfish Maine has received the Jonesport community support it needed to proceed with its application for a land-based aquaculture facility.
Responsibility
Can Salicornia effectively treat aquaculture effluent?
Trial demonstrates that artificial wetlands of Salicornia neei can be used for wastewater treatment in saline aquaculture in South America.
Health & Welfare
Differing water salinities can shift bacterial composition in RAS shrimp production
Water salinity greatly influences the bacterial composition of shrimp farms, with some shifts in Vibrio populations increasing the risk for disease.
Intelligence
Blue Aqua to develop Singapore’s first high-tech trout farm
Using a proprietary recirculating aquaculture system, Blue Aqua is developing Singapore’s first high-tech fish farm for producing rainbow trout.
Innovation & Investment
‘Microbiome management’ gives RAS operator a foothold against off-flavor-causing geosmin
RAS operator puts proactive “microbiome management” approach in play to eliminate off-flavors and finds good results in lowering geosmin levels.
Health & Welfare
Cuantificando la contribución de la productividad natural en los sistemas de biofloc al crecimiento del camarón
Las algas y otros agregados biológicos, o la "productividad natural" en los sistemas de biofloc para cría de camarón, pueden contribuir en gran medida a la eficiencia de la alimentación acuícola.
Health & Welfare
Quantifying the contribution of natural productivity in biofloc systems to shrimp growth
Algae and other biological aggregates, or the “natural productivity” in shrimp biofloc rearing systems, can contribute greatly to aquafeed efficiency.
Health & Welfare
Assessing the effect of photoperiod manipulation on Atlantic salmon growth, smoltification and sexual maturation
Evaluation of photoperiod influence on salmon smolts suggests that an artificial winter signal would benefit RAS post-smolt production.
Aquafeeds
TCFFI, Cargill partner to develop better feeds for RAS salmon
Land-based aquaculture research center partners with animal feeds giant to develop optimal feeds for Atlantic salmon raised in recirculating aquaculture systems.