Sam Hill is a freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon, and covering the U.S. aquaculture industry for SeafoodSource. He also writes about technology and internet culture with bylines in Outside Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Outline, and Motherboard.
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FlipFarm, a semi-automated oyster-growing system created in New Zealand, has won the Global Seafood Alliance’s 2021 Global Aquaculture Innovation Award.
FlipFarm Managing Director Aaron Pannell helped launch the company while looking to improve his equipment at Blenheim, New Zealand-based Marlborough Oysters, where he grows 15 million oysters per year. The company’s existing oyster-farming system involved clipping plastic bags to
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Both shrimp and finfish aquaculture continued to grow globally in 2021, but might experience flattening or slower growth in 2022, according to production surveys conducted by the Global Seafood Alliance.
In a presentation at the final day of the organization’s Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership (GOAL) conference on 17 November, Rabobank Senior Analyst Gorjan Nikolik said globally, the aquaculture sector’s production is slowly
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Maynard, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based AquaBounty Technologies announced an underwritten public offering on Thursday, 18 November, with a plan to sell 11.2 million shares of common stock by certain selling stockholders at a price of USD 2.10 (EUR 1.86) per share, with the goal of netting USD 23.5 million (EUR 20.8 million) ...
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NOAA released two scientific atlases this week that will help the agency determine where to establish aquaculture opportunity areas (AOAs) in the Gulf of Mexico and Southern California – the first step in boosting aquaculture development in federal waters in those regions ...
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The Maine Aquaculture Association (MAA) released occupational standards for the state’s aquaculture industry this week, publicly setting the bar for workforce skills and training needs in the marine finfish, land-based recirculating aquaculture system, land-based shellfish hatchery, and marine shellfish and sea vegetable sectors.
According to the organization, this is the first occupational standards document in the country for the
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Atlantic Sapphire has reported harvests of 700 metric tons head-on gutted weight during the third quarter of 2021 at its land-based farm in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., and expects a steady increase in biomass gain going forward ...
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Atlantic Sapphire’s stock value has dropped significantly over the past week, following the company stating it was having issues supplying oxygen to its U.S. location amidst the state’s battle against COVID-19 …
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Atlantic Sapphire suffered a net loss of USD 51.5 million (EUR 43.81 million) in the first six months of 2021, according to documents published on the Oslo Bors Stock Exchange — capping off a series of tough breaks for the Sande, Denmark-based aquaculture company during a continuously testing year …
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Researchers at Rutgers University exploring the issue of what lab-grown meat products should be called to differentiate them from their traditional livestock counterparts have landed on the terms “cell-based” or “cell-cultured.”
The labeling issue has more at stake than just being accurate: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture require food products to have a “common or usual
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Samuels and Son Seafood plans to begin selling the world's first publicly-available genetically engineered salmon this month.
The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.-based wholesale restaurant supplier is thus far the only company to publicly announce its decision to sell AquaBounty Technologies’ genetically-engineered AquAdvantage salmon, and it is proud of that distinction, according to Samuels and Son
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