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

By Tom Seaman

One Norwegian salmon farmer is using wheat grown in the UK by 'regenerative' farming to further reduce its CO2 footprint, which it said is already the lowest of any seafood globally

The tally breaks the previous record for Hawaii of $78.4m in 2019 with algae accounting for $36.7m, or 46%, of the total

By Neil Ramsden

Skretting has a target of using novel ingredients in 5-10% of its recipes by 2025; 'we are setting such a goal because we believe that [production] will scale up soon'