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Aquaculture America 2025: Organizers reshape agenda to adjust for NOAA absence

Undercurrent News is blogging live from Aquaculture America, which is being held March 6-10, in New Orleans, Louisiana

Hatch Blue’s Crest aquaculture start-up accelerator program kicks off in Hawaii

The participants in the first Crest program of 2025 include AlgiSys, Grolink, Scape, Seatopia and Sensor Globe 

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AquaBounty sells Canadian assets to Cooke subsidiary for CAD 3m

RAS system provider Pure Salmon Technology’s CEO to step down

Atlantic Sapphire delays schedule for breaking even

Weakness in global shrimp markets weighs on Benchmark’s turnover, margins

Investors in Indonesia’s eFishery face heavy losses as firm struggles with financial collapse

Brazil develops first commercial-scale genetically edited tilapia

UR-backed Icelandic investor buys up Swedish water treatment firm

Singapore aquaculture CEO charged in $336,000 bribery case

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German group secures $4.5m majority stake in Norwegian aquatech firm

Small Ohio town ‘carrying the cost’ after AquaBounty closes down, according to ProPublica

$3.6 million tilapia hatchery aims to boost Jamaica aquaculture production

Aurora Fish Farming doubles planned production at Iceland flow-through facility to 28,000t

Surge in ‘deep farming’ demand drives Akva to record sea-based orders in Q4

Report reveals list of employees potentially implicated in eFishery fraud

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A RAS tank used by Billund Aquaculture

FTI Consulting running eFishery with shareholders set to vote on sale, wind-down

Blow for Norway’s ‘Egg’ salmon farm concept as manufacturer goes under

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Indonesia’s eFishery drastically inflated auto-feeder sales, internal audit reveals

Red tape is costing US aquaculture nearly $900m in lost opportunities, NOAA-funded study suggests

US salmon RAS farmer Local Coho shuts down after 6-year effort

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BioMar finds rise of waterborne feeding impacting salmon nutrition

Probe finds eFishery may have inflated revenue by $600m in 2024 alone

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Canada’s elver pilot project threatens company’s aquaculture plans

Interim eFishery CEO exits amid reports co-founder was cooking books from 2018

Aquaculture veteran Maclean resigns from eFishery prior to financial fraud probe  

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Finnish tech addresses off-flavor, mold in RAS production

Researchers have developed novel fiber-based materials to address off-flavors and water mold in recirculating aquaculture systems

Norwegian firm to supply land-based aquaculture facilities in South Korea, Iceland, Japan

Laksesystemer has signed agreements to deliver feeding technology to new land-based facilities, including a 10,000t system in South Korea named Mirae Aqua Farm

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Nordic Aquafarms blindsided: $500m Maine salmon project in jeopardy

US aquaculture sales grew 38% to $1.57bn in latest census

Nasdaq delists Blue Star after stock price falls below minimum threshold

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Mowi, Leroy back heavy salmon post-smolt, submersible pen investments to bear fruit over winter

Pelagia to open new mackerel filleting factory in 2025 as part of value drive

free read Arctic Securities show recap: Land-based salmon at inflection point as sector grapples lice issues

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Tsar Nicoulai acquires Sterling Caviar, consolidating California operations

Norway’s Marine Donut reports low salmon mortality during first full-scale test

Japanese energy company ventures into land-based trout farming with LNG-based system

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Billund Aquaculture founder launches new RAS tech firm

Canada invests over CAD 1.4m to bolster Quebec’s fishing industry

Canadian, Norwegian, Swedish firms team up on land-based Quebec salmon farm

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How Pacifico’s nursery plans brought together two do-good private equities

free read Finnforel signs agreement to build land-based trout site in UAE

UK’s Ocean 14 Capital partners with Greek aquatech firm to boost sustainable practices

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Investors eagerly eye hybrid flow-through prospects amid challenges for full RAS

Minority shareholders win Sustainable Blue auction with unchallenged CAD 30m bid

US shrimpers demand tougher restrictions on Peru, Guatemala

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Ecuador shrimp farmer Limbomar starts production at new $40m plant

Salmon giant Mowi extends Innovasea as preferred vendor

Finnforel sets multi-‘gigafactory’ ambitions in motion with expected €240m funding boost

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free read GSA launches latest update to seafood processing standard

free read CFSE 2024 day three recap: Indian shrimp processors unveil investments

free read CFSE 2024 day two recap: Indian shrimp traders turn to Vietnam, while Hondurans bid for China