Portuguese, Irish firms merge to sell tailored whitefish hatchery feeds
Portuguese feedmaker Sparos has merged with Irish distributor PTAqua in order to sell feeds tailored for seabass, seabream, cod, amberjacks, and rock gilthead
US foodtech firm, Nordic soy meal producer team to target European aquaculture
The two companies' plan is to deliver non-GMO soy ingredients to the European aquaculture sector
BioMar aims to accelerate shrimp sustainability with deal for acoustic feed tech
Following the 'successful entrance into the shrimp feed market', the board of BioMar has approved the acquisition of AQ1 Systems
$12m raised by firm growing algae in the desert
Brilliant Planet 'is unlocking the power of algae as an affordable method of permanently and quantifiably sequestering carbon at the gigaton scale'
Aqua-Spark’s latest investment goes to algal astaxanthin firm
The sustainable aquaculture fund's latest investment is in Hawaii-based Kuehnle AgroSystems, which produces natural coloring for the sector from microalgae
Hatch launches €50m investment plan for ‘regenerative’ aquaculture
The group boasts venture partners including Kingfish Zeeland chair Hans den Biemen and Delta Blue CEO Jeff Fort, plus advisors like Einar Wathne, Darian McBain, and Magdalena Wallhoff Lamprecht
Despite fishing sector recovery, Peru’s imports remained high in 2021
Peru's fishery imports have grown by around 6% in volume and 3% in value annually from 135,300 metric tons worth $254.6 million in 2017 to 162,300t worth $304.6m in 2021
Benelux PE takes majority stake in hatchery aquafeed firm
Torqx Capital Partners has entered into a partnership with the former owners to acquire Ocean Nutrition
BioMar commissions new algal oil facility in Australia
BioMar Australia has commissioned a new algal oil facility at its factory in northwest Tasmania to produce AlgalPrimeDHA, developed with partner Corbion
Aquaconnect: Export dependence, credit access biggest bottlenecks for Indian shrimp
'If a US consumer is deciding to pay one cent extra, we get one cent extra; and if they decide to reduce the price by two cents, we are going to get that' - Rajamanohar Somasundaram, CEO of Aquaconnect