Norway's Research Council will allocate a total of NOK 66 million to a total of 10 projects to help develop blue businesses and create new jobs across the country

 A group of 19 producers, the Jusanhama Gyokyo Youth Association, has been the first to achieve the ASC and the MSC certification for sustainable wakame and kelp production in Japan

Karim Kurmaly has taken up a new post as the director of Royal DSM's 'smart protein' division this month

By Dan Gibson

Undercurrent News reporter Dan Gibson rounds up the biggest seafood news stories from Wednesday

By Louis Harkell

Undercurrent News is reporting live from this year's IFFO conference for the global marine ingredients industry, the first major gathering of the sector since 2019's event in Shanghai 

By Louis Harkell

'The seaweed additive makes up only about 0.25 to 0.5% of the total feed ingredient mix... if everyone included at least 0.25%, we could sell €10bn worth of additives' -- Mark Williams, CEO of Ocean Harvest Technology

Seaweed company CH4 Global plans to add four new 'aquaculture and production facilities' in the next 12 months through its subsidiary CH4 Australia

Growing algae onshore could close 'a projected gap' in society's future nutritional demands while improving environmental sustainability, according to a US report

The money will be used to help it further develop its seaweed-based agriculture feed supplement that can reduce livestock methane emissions among other things

Hatch Blue's second fund, the 'Blue Revolution Fund', has closed its first funding round and hopes to bring third-party verified impact investing to the aquaculture sector