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• Leadership & Innovation

  November 27, 2017

  Microalgae into medicine: Biotech startup targets shrimp, salmon diseases

  MicroSynbiotiX is employing the power of transgenic microalgae to make it cheaper and easier for aquaculture producers to administer vaccines to fish. 

• Marketplace

  April 24, 2017

  Can a ‘chemical fingerprint’ deter seafood fraud?

  Because paper trails aren’t perfect, some food producers are going beyond written or digital records to prove their products’ authenticity and prevent economic fraud. Is farmed seafood a perfect fit for forensic-science traceability? 

• Marketplace

  April 10, 2017

  A motive, and a market, for farmed fish in Mexico

  Boasting ample areas for aquaculture and a robust domestic demand for seafood – not to mention its close proximity to the U.S. market – a land of opportunity lies in Mexico. Fish farming is primed to meet its potential south 

• Feed Sustainability

  January 3, 2017

  Alternative feed ingredient universe to convene at F3 meeting

  What started out as a simple yet ambitious contest to drive innovation in the aquafeed sector has evolved into a fully global competition – and collaboration – amongst ingredient suppliers and feed manufacturers.  

• Feed Sustainability

  December 5, 2016

  Aquaculture Exchange: Rick Barrows

  After 14 years with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, Rick Barrows talks about the importance of finding ‘complete’ and commercially viable alternative sources of omega-3 fatty acids and continuing innovation in the aquafeed sector. 

• Leadership & Innovation

  March 10, 2016

  Aquaculture Exchange: Tom Pickerell

  The technical director for the U.K. seafood industry authority, Seafish, talks to the Advocate about the challenges facing aquaculture expansion and why it will be seafood that fills the protein gap that many are expecting in the future. 

• Marketplace

  January 11, 2016

  Global finfish production review: Gradual growth

  Recent surveys indicate that global finfish production has doubled over the last decade, but most of this growth happened in the first half of this period. Production is still growing but at slower pace than in recent years, and annual 

• Marketplace

  January 4, 2016

  Russian food embargo: Who’s been hurt?

  Russia’s 2014 embargo on seafood and other food imports from the United States, European Union members and other countries created multiple impacts. Russian consumers have experienced higher prices and declines in the volume and quality of seafood available. Russian companies 

• Animal Health & Welfare

  July 2, 2014

  Cathepsin enzymes, part 2

  Cathepsin D alone and in combination with other cathepsins presents the greatest proteolytic activity on some fish muscles. 

• Feed Sustainability

  November 2, 2013

  Kudzu component: Stress reliever for fish?

  A study was performed to determine the effects of puerarin, a biologically active ingredient in the roots of kudzu, on stress modulation in farmed salmon.