Former top Cooke sales exec Young pops up at Open Blue
According to his LinkedIn account, Andrew Young, who worked at Cooke from April 2015 to November 2019, joined Panama-based Open Blue Sea Farms in April
Lab acquisition gives aquaculture US R&D firm new animal health, nutrition capabilities
'There’s a lot of demand for trials to fight white spot, EMS and other shrimp diseases. So this allows us to be a lot more active' -- John Buchanan, Center for Aquaculture Technologies
China market a driver of Open Blue’s big cobia expansion plans
Panama-based offshore cobia farmer Open Blue is ramping up production considerably to meet strong global demand, with getting into China also on the agenda
GOAL survey expects major farmed finfish species to smash 40m metric tons in 2020
Almost all major farmed species saw production gains of 2-5% in 2019, GOAL's survey showed, while billions of dollars went into land-based and offshore projects
Israeli specialist predicts explosive growth in offshore aquaculture
Stormy Mediterranean weather has been written about in history, from Homer’s Odyssey to Shakespeare’s Othello and the Tempest. Offshore aquaculture has now tamed it
Offshore researcher: Seven years of data support study’s finding of fish farm’s low footprint
'You want to monitor both the sediment and the water column to make sure that you’re not releasing more nutrients than the ecosystem can handle' -- Aaron Welch
University study finds low impact from offshore aquaculture
The study led by Aaron Welch, who conducted it while a graduate student at the University of Miami, found that the offshore farm studied had a low pollution footprint
Cuna Del Mar’s investments advancing ‘farm of the future’
All of Cuna del Mar's investments fit into the fund's broader vision of where it sees aquaculture going and its role in feeding the planet's projected 9.5 billion people by 2050
US R&D firm head bullish on acquisition, genetics, DNA vaccines
The San Diego, California-headquartered research firm the Center for Aquaculture Technologies was acquired by the investment fund Cuna del Mar in April
Open Blue plans to take cobia global in 2019
The Panama-based cobia farmer made its first shipments to Europe last December, and plans to export its first value-added products to China in November