CRFM HIGHLIGHTS FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE AT CWA

Former Newfoundland aquaculture leader, journalist lands key role at harvester union

The Fish Food and Allied Workers (FFAW), a union representing about 10,000 crab, shrimp and groundfish harvesters, as well as about 3,000 seafood processing workers, in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has a new face in a key...

Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association presents annual awards

The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association presented its Hall of Achievement Industry Awards during the Gala Dinner last week, as part of the Annual Cold Harvest Conference and Trade Show. The Gala, held at the Jag Soundhouse in St. John’s,...

Why aquaculture must continue to embrace the digital

The interview is part of a new series filmed by The Fish Site’s team at dsm-firmenich’s recent Global Aqua Days event in Athens. And, in it Bonadei discusses some of the key digital trends and tools with The Fish Site’s Moritz Mueller. With a...

Fisheries and Aquaculture take center stage at high-level and technical events during Caribbean Week of Agriculture

Hon. Samal Duggins, host Minister for CWA 2025 and the upcoming 16th Special Meeting of the CRFM Ministerial Council, addressing the audience at the opening of CWA 2025 in Saint Kitts and Nevis (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Marine...

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE AT CWA 2025

Huon Aquaculture chooses Pure Salmon to design new Tasmanian smolt facility

Australian salmon farming company, Huon Aquaculture, has chosen Norway’s Pure Salmon Technology AS for the design, supply, and installation of a new land-based smolt facility. The facility will incorporate recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)...

Huon Aquaculture chooses Pure Salmon to design new Tasmanian smolt facility

Australian salmon farming company, Huon Aquaculture, has chosen Norway’s Pure Salmon Technology AS for the design, supply, and installation of a new land-based smolt facility. The facility will incorporate recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)...

Fisheries must be pillars of peace, not points of conflict – Fisheries Minister

The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Emelia Kobiaba Arthur, has called for urgent international cooperation to protect fisheries from growing threats and to secure their role as a vital foundation for peace, livelihoods, and...

Feed giant expands in Africa

Animal nutrition company De Heus has opened a new fish feed factory in Uganda, which will produce aquaculture feed for farmers throughout East Africa. At full capacity, the factory will supply up to 100,000 metric tons of fish feed annually,...

Former Atlantic Sapphire CFO Oyehaug joins Ovum board

Karl Oystein Oyehaug, former chief financial officer of land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire, has joined the board of directors at Ovum, a Norwegian aquaculture technology company developing the "Egg," a floating closed-containment system...

Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association celebrates excellence at 30th Annual Cold Harvest Conference

News September 29th, 2025 The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA) presented its prestigious Hall of Achievement Industry Awards during the gala dinner as part of the landmark 30th Annual Cold Harvest Conference and Trade Show. The...

Electric Boats Drive New England Aquaculture

This article was originally published by Canary Media. At a dock along the banks of the Cousins River, Chad Strater loaded up his small aluminum workboat with power tools and a winch. Strater, who owns a marine construction business, was setting...

For the future

Two items on the Ketchikan City Council agenda for Thursday’s meeting are indicators of the continued importance of aquaculture and mariculture to the economy of Ketchikan and broader southern Southeast Alaska region. One item involves a request...

Records broken at Aquaculture Europe 2025 in Valencia

Organised by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and hosted with the Torre de la Sal Aquaculture Institute at the Valencia Conference Centre from 22-25 September, the event spilled across the main congress hall, several floors of the...

Meena Bazar leads the way in sustainable aquaculture supply chain

Meena Bazar has signed a landmark MoU with the FoodTechBangladesh (FTB) project to revolutionize Bangladesh’s aquaculture supply chain, becoming the first forward-linkage partner to source fish produced through safe, sustainable, and...

Successful Tilapia harvest inspires Usunione farmers to expand aquaculture efforts

BY RODRICK DESURI AUKI The Usunione tilapia farmers in southern Malaita are celebrating a major win after harvesting from their one-year-old tilapia pond on Wednesday, September 24, 2025. This milestone has sparked strong motivation among farmers...

ANDY WALKER: Oyster industry issues call for immediate government help

The executive director of Aquaculture Alliance noted that help is needed to establish new hatcheries. MacLeod reissued for the development of micro hatcheries, first made in August of 2024. He told committee members, “Yet here we are, more than a...

Study may help Scottish kelp industry address key commercialization challenges

The U.K. Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) and U.K. Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) have released a new case study on Scottish kelp farming which the organizations say could represent a “step-change for the Scottish kelp industry.”...

Nofima cautions that freezing fish too early could cost processors

New research from the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) has found freezing haddock before rigor mortis sets in can cause yellow discoloration and higher liquid loss during thawing, leading to potential...