RASTECH Magazine

Arctic Seafarm has contracted RAS equipment manufacturer Mat-Kuling to install what the company says is the world’s largest prefabricated degassing tower system at its land-based salmon farming facility in Nesna.

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Netherlands-based The Kingfish Company announced a “strategic restructuring” that would make Icelandic investment firm, Eyrir hf., the majority stakeholder.

Eyvir’s majority stake comes in the form of a €15 million (US$17.6 million) private placement which will give the firm approximately 31.4 per cent of Kingfish Company’s total share capital. An additional €6 million...

Thor Salmon announced that the company has completed its first delivery of Atlantic salmon smolt.

More than 330,000 smolt were delivered from Thor Salmon’s new land-based smolt facility to Kaldvík’s offshore aquaculture farms in the East Fjords of Iceland. The company said with the smolt facility now in operation, Thor Salmon is preparing to deliver more than one milli...

Thailand’s Kasetsart University has launched the country’s first Atlantic salmon research project last week.

The Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart officially begun its research operations on May 6, using a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) at their Bangkok-based facility.

The Kasetsart team is being led by faculty dean and assistant professor, Suriyan Tunki...

RAS technology company, Ace Aquatec Chile, announced the appointment of Gonzalo Eduardo Boehmwald Trigo as the new general manager for the Latin American (LatAm).

The company explained in a statement that Trigo will be in charge of establishing growth in Chile and South America with more than 20 years of experience in salmon aquaculture.

“Latin America represent...