BlueNalu, a cellular aquaculture producer start-up based in San Diego, California, U.S.A., announced the closing of USD 60 million (EUR 49.6 million) in debt financing from new and existing investors this week ...
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… Read MorePoseidon Ocean Systems, a Canadian developer of salmon farming infrastructure and life support systems, has raised CAD 5 million (USD 3.9 million, EUR 3.2 million) in Series A financing to pay for engineering costs and delivering new technologies to market ...
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… Read MoreAtlantic Sapphire has finished construction at the first phase of its Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility and is projected to harvest 10,000 metric tons of salmon annually once commercial harvests commence, expected in September 2020 ...
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… Read MoreIn the face of climate change, North American seafood packaging producers are taking steps to reduce their respective carbon footprints while simultaneously moving to enhance and implement responsible practices – all in an effort to secure a sustainable future for the planet and the industry …
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… Read MoreAquaBounty Technologies announced this week that the company has grossed approximately USD 65.2 million (EUR 53.6 million) from an underwritten public stock offering last week ...
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… Read MoreAquaBounty Technologies announced this week that Innovasea, a global leader in advanced aquatic solutions for aquaculture, will provide the recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) technology for the land-based salmon company’s third fish farm ...
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… Read MoreOslo, Norway-based aquaculture firm AquaCon ran into a snag last week in its ongoing effort to build a 1.2 million-square-foot aquaculture facility in Cambridge, Maryland, U.S.A.
… Read MoreAquaBounty Technologies is facing another legal battle over its AquAdvantage salmon, as a California court ruled last week that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving genetically engineered salmon for sale and consumption.
On 5 November, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled the FDA ignored serious possible environmental consequences by approving genetically engineered salmon, and was also
AquaBounty Technologies released its third-quarter financial results, along with a corporate update, this week – indicating a minor loss in its third-quarter earnings as the company moves toward the first harvest of its genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon and continued scaling of its operations ...
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… Read MoreUniversity of Stirling postdoctoral researcher Simão Zacaria has won this year’s eighth annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award for his research on shrimp eyestalk ablation practices, the Global Aquaculture Alliance announced on 19 October.
“It is an honor to win this prestigious award, mainly as the first African to get it. This award reminds me to never give up in chasing my dreams even when they seem impossible,”