UAE farmer, trader, preparing to launch on-land salmon farm pilot Undercurrent News, 21 Nov 2014 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Asmak, or International Fish Farming Holding Co., has seen a strong turnaround in results in 2014 and is rapidly growing its trading arm, group CEO Mamoon Othman told Undercurrent News. It is also now … Continue reading
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TIME, 18 Nov 2014: You Won’t Believe the Source of the World’s Most Sustainable Salmon
You Won’t Believe the Source of the World’s Most Sustainable Salmon TIME, 18 Nov 2014 Josh Schonwald is a Chicago-based journalist and author of The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food. Hint: it’s not the open sea or a Norwegian fjord When you hear the term “sustainable seafood,” you might envision a … Continue reading
Undercurrent News, 27 Oct 2014: Land Based Farmed Salmon Gets Monterey Bay Aquarium Green Rating
Land Based Farmed Salmon Gets Monterey Bay Aquarium Green Rating October 27, 2014, 8:31 pm Undercurrent News Atlantic salmon farmed in recirculating aquaculture systems is now a “best choice” for consumers, according to an update from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This is the first time a farmed salmon has got a green rating, after Verlasso … Continue reading
Undercurrent News, 24 Oct 2014: Norway Looks Into Regulation For Land Based Aquaculture
Norway Looks Into Regulation For Land Based Aquaculture Undercurrent News 24 Oct 2014 Norway’s industry and fisheries ministry has set up an expert committee to assess what regulations should apply for land-based aquaculture. Technology for land-based salmon production is evolving, both in Norway and abroad, noted the fisheries minister Elisabeth Aspaker. “How we manage closed facilities … Continue reading
West Cork Times, 12 Oct 2014: Group Calls for “Fundamental Rethinking” of Government’s Salmon Farming Policy
Group Calls for “Fundamental Rethinking” of Government’s Salmon Farming Policy West Cork Times, 12 Oct 2014 By Stephen Johnson Salmon Watch Ireland this weekend called for a “fundamental rethinking” of the Government’s salmon farming policy, warning that large-scale marine operations are having “catastrophic” effects on the sector. “It is time that Ireland embraced … Continue reading
Undercurrent News, 24 September 2014: US Seafood Entrepreneur Betting On US Inland Farmed Salmon
US Seafood Entrepreneur Betting On US Inland Farmed Salmon Under Current News September 24, 2014, 5:37 pm By Matt Whittaker Longtime fish farmer and former Villa Organic CEO Johan Andreassen is planning a bet on inland farming of Atlantic salmon in the United States. Now the chairman of Norway-based Atlantic Sapphire, Andreassen is in the … Continue reading
Undercurrent News, 11 Sept 2014: Danish on-land salmon farmer predicts return to strong market after production halt
Danish on-land salmon farmer predicts return to strong market after production halt Undercurrent News September 11, 2014, 8:57 am Neil Ramsden Danish on-land salmon farming firm Langsand Laks expects a return to the strong demand market it has been experiencing once its ten-month hiatus to combat bacteria is completed. In mid-October the firm will harvest the … Continue reading
The Arctic Sounder, 5 Sept 2014: Alaska-made film takes aim at salmon farming
Alaska-made film takes aim at salmon farming The Arctic Sounder September 5th 2014 By Jill Homer Sara Pozonsky, a lifelong Alaska fisherman and owner of Wild Alaskan Salmon Company, believes salmon farms are a perilously overlooked environmental catastrophe. And she’s launched an advocacy effort to help nudge the issue into the spotlight. Pozonsky, Tracie Donahue, and … Continue reading
Irish Times, 26 May 2014: Concerns about the environment led to the growing of salmon on land in the far northern of Vancouver
Concerns about the environment led to the growing of salmon on land in the far northern of Vancouver Irish Times, 26 May 2014 By Derek Evans CONSUMERS concerned about sustainable seafood now have an option for Atlantic land-raised salmon from Kuterra farm on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. The farm is owned by the Namgis First … Continue reading
Vancouver Sun, 14 May 2014: Salmon grown in land-based tanks come to market
Salmon grown in land-based tanks come to market Proponents laud sustainability of these fish compared to net-based farmed salmon Mike Jolliffe, right, and Gerry Alfred harvest Atlantic salmon at the Namgis closed containment salmon farm. The first Atlantic salmon grown entirely on land are now landing on grocery store shelves, marketed as a sustainable alternative … Continue reading
