Fish industry news

Shrimp and crab produced by Aquapesca, a fish farming company based in Mozambique's central Zambézia province, are due to be sold in two new markets ; the United States and China starting this year, said the company's director speaking to Mozambican newspaper Noticias, reports www.megafishnet.com

Nofima and Tromsø Aquaculture Research Station have developed a new department for salmon lice research. This is an important contribution in the effort to combat the problems with salmon lice in the aquaculture industry, reports www.megafishnet.com

A study, "Genomic Signatures Predict Migration and Spawning Failure in Wild Canadian Salmon" published in the prestigious journal "Science" in January 2011 has created a lot of public and media interest. This research is particularly timely given the large fluctuations in Fraser River sockeye salmon populations seen during the last few years. To learn more about the research, staff at the BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences asked Dr. Kristina Miller, who is the primary author of the paper, to provide information on the study's results and implications. Her responses, in question and answer, format are below, reports www.megafishnet.com

Two norwegian vessels had sandeel catches both in the EU-zone and later in the norwegian zone after the fishery opened there on April 23rd. The vessels are reporting slow fishing, reports www.megafishnet.com

Nutreco is investing EUR 27 million to upgrade its fish feed plant in Avery, Norway, reports www.megafishnet.com

AgriMarine Holdings Inc and the Zhoushan Fisheries Research Institute in the People's Republic of China (ZFRI), are pleased to announce a joint venture for a commercial scale research project for the rearing of Yellow Croaker in a closed containment system. The joint venture project is an important step for the Company as it advances its solid wall closed containment technology into other high value species in China, reports www.megafishnet.com

Sirena AS is proud to announce that it has established a long term marketing agreement with JFK where Sirena will be the sole marketer of all JFK products, reports www.megafishnet.com

Growth in operating revenues in 1Q to 253.4 MNOK versus 158.0 MNOK last year - up 60%, reports www.megafishnet.com

The year 2010 brought a major turning point in Morpol's history. The company started the year as privately owned and ended the year as a publically listed company on the Oslo stock exchange. The funding from new shareholders that the listing provided allowed us to expand our global sales and processing activities and additionally to expand into upstream salmon farming through acquisitions, reports www.megafishnet.com

Grieg Seafood's subsidiary Grieg Seafood Hjaltland has entered into an agreement to acquire two salmon farming companies (Skelda Salmon Farms Limited and G Duncan (Salmon) Limited), reports www.megafishnet.com

Eric Schwaab, assistant NOAA administrator for fisheries, joined officials from the town of Brewster, Mass., and other partners today on the shores of Cape Cod's Stony Brook to celebrate the completion of a American Reinvestment and Recovery Act project that restored natural tidal flow to 20 acres of salt marsh and opened passage for fish to nearly 400 acres of ponds for spawning, reports www.megafishnet.com

The magazine tells you five clear choices: fair additions, reduce waste, care for the local environment, employee development and fair raw materials, reports www.megafishnet.com

Nordic Naturals announced that its Professional Division will offer naturopathic doctors a special promotion during the month of May, with proceeds benefitting "The Run: Moving Natural Medicine Forward." For each direct order placed with Nordic Naturals by a naturopathic doctor during May, Nordic Naturals will offer a 15% discount to the practitioner and give 5% of the total order as a cash donation to support the launch of The Run (www.TheRun.org), reports www.megafishnet.com

Grieg Seafood Hjaltland UK Ltd, has been shortlisted for the Fish and Seafood category in the Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards to be announced at a dinner at the Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro Hotel in Dunblane on Thursday 26th May, reports www.megafishnet.com

Aurora Algae introduced the A2 product portfolio, a series of natural products derived from its proprietary algae platform. The A2 product portfolio is uniquely sustainable, scalable, and flexible to address growing demand in the explosive nutrition, aquaculture, pharmaceutical, and energy markets, reports www.megafishnet.com

Ms. Clara Bah, a researcher at the Department of Food Science, University of Otago in New Zealand has won the first ever Peter Howgate Award for young fish technologists. The prize of EUR500 will help Clara to attend the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) conference in Rotorua, New Zealand at the end of June 2011, at which she will present her MSc research findings on the bioactivity of fish roes from five commercial New Zealand fish species. She hopes her paper download here will help to publicise how the extraction of useful bioactive compounds, from parts of fish which are often discarded, can help to improve the commercial value of fishery products, reports www.megafishnet.com

NOAA's Fisheries Service is asking for public input as it starts the process of updating the national guidelines that promote the safety of commercial and recreational fishermen in federal waters. These guidelines are used by federal fisheries managers as they draft fishing rules and regulations around the nation, reports www.megafishnet.com

Muddy Waters made it famous. B.B. King, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker and Jimi Hendrix did versions. Now Memphis restaurateurs are joining in the 'Catfish Blues.', reports www.megafishnet.com

Wout Dekker, Nutreco CEO: "The animal nutrition and fish feed producers are faced with strongly increased raw material prices, which was the main driver for the 15.5% increase in revenue compared to the same period in 2010. The operational results showed a strong performance in Fish Feed and a moderate start in Premix and Feed Specialties. The result in the segment Meat and Other was below last year's due to the higher input prices, while Compound Feed Europe and Animal Nutrition Canada performed on balance in line with last year, reports www.megafishnet.com