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Hatch Blue invests $2m in aquaculture oxygen technology company Nernst Electric

Hatch Blue invests $2m in aquaculture oxygen technology company Nernst Electric

The Irish company will use the funding to build and test an on-site oxygen generation unit at a fish farm before moving towards commercial trials.

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Greenwave Aotearoa is cultivating Ecklonia radiata, a native brown seaweed in New Zealand waters.

New commercial seaweed farm launches in New Zealand using Norwegian technology

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Ocean Era’s prior Velella Beta-test demonstration project pioneered the permit process for aquaculture in Federal waters, offshore of Kona, Hawai`i.

Ocean Era wins final permit for offshore aquaculture trial off Florida

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Ohad Maiman (left), co-founder of The Black Cod Company, and Luuk van der Heijden (right), Head of Production.

"The Black Cod has landed in Europe!"

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The system aimed to demonstrate how renewable energy and aquaculture can operate together efficiently within shared maritime space - the first time such a system has been tested in the Atlantic.

Canary Islands project combines offshore wind and aquaculture on single floating platform

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Chris De Cuyper, Co-founder & Managing Director of Fremantle Seaweed.

Western Australia’s first commercial-scale Asparagopsis hatchery set for development

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Trine Vatle, Director of Strategy and Operations, Kristine Hartmann, Managing Director Salmon Living Lab, Bernt Martinsen, Senior Vice President PHARMAQ part of Zoetis, and Simen Kristoffersen, Director of Research, pictured after signing the partnership agreement.

Pharmaq joins Salmon Living Lab research initiative

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Tidal's Orca system being deployed.

Tidal and SalMar join forces on aquaculture AI

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Pohnpei island, Micronesia.

FFA and Iceland Ocean Cluster collaborate on tuna side-stream innovation in the Pacific

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The BLUEVALSTEP project, led by B2E – Blue Bioeconomy CoLAB, will map resources, capabilities and value chains linked to blue biotechnology.

New study explores how fish by-products could drive Portugal’s blue biotech sector

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View of Umeå city.

Surplus heat to power fish and shrimp circular farming in Umeå

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Underwater view of shrimp.

FAI launches Shrimp Hub to put welfare at the centre of shrimp farming

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From left: Ole Jacob Broch, Silje Forbord, Minister of Research and Higher Education Sigrun Aasland, Jorunn Skjermo, Minister of Digitalisation and Public Administration Karianne Tung and SINTEF Oceans Director Vegar Johansen.

New "centre of gravity" for seaweed innovation to launch in Norway

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SeaForester Group, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), and Kongsberg Discovery

New partnership aims to bring Europe’s disappearing kelp forests back to life

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“Our project aims to support a new farming sector for home-grown king prawns, using indoor closed-system methods, harnessing renewable energy and integrating circular-economy thinking so nothing is wasted," said Project Lead, Professor Rod Wilson.

Could UK farmland become home to a new king prawn-farming sector?

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Alexandra Leeper, CEO of the Iceland Ocean Cluster.

TalentView: Alexandra Leeper, Iceland Ocean Cluster

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Chef Steve Phelps pictured with Megan Sorby, Founder and CEO of Pine Island Redfish.

Florida's Pine Island Redfish exceeds 2025 production targets as company seeks funding for expansion

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"By producing ready-to-eat products from these parts of the fish, we can offer people better nutrition in everyday foods, while reducing waste and creating more sustainable value from every catch," said Hailia CEO Michaela Lindström.

Could salmon byproducts be more nutritious than fillets? This Finnish firm thinks so

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"The future of biotech is blue and will launch in Maine,” said Beth Orcutt, Bigelow VP for Research. Pictured: an aerial view of Bigelow Laboratory facilities in Boothbay, Maine.

Maine bets on "blue biotech" with launch of new accelerator program

PT Aqua co-founders Ian Sutton and Paul Coyne accepting the BIM Aquatech Business of the Year award from Caroline Bocquel, CEO, BIM, and Richard Donnelly, Director of Development and Innovation Services, BIM.

Ireland’s aquatech industry set for major expansion, say sector leaders

Cod fry and saithe fry swim around the artificial reefs covered with kelp.

Kelp recovery in record time on Norway's northern coast

The system aims to demonstrate how renewable energy and aquaculture can operate together efficiently within shared maritime space - the first time such a system has been tested in the Atlantic.

First offshore trials in the Atlantic to combine floating wind power and aquaculture

Big Akwa co-founders, Elena Petukhovskaya and Hugo Wikström.

Swedish collaboration links clean fuel and fish farming in a circular economy first

Lisaqua founders, Charlotte Schoelinck and Gabriel Boneu.

Lisaqua raises €9m to build France’s first large-scale low-impact shrimp farm

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