By Stephen Treloar (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Kjell Inge Rokke’s Aker ASA and SalMar ASA will create an offshore fish farming company to open new waters for producing salmon. Aker will contribute…
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Scottish partnership explores ‘groutless’ anchoring for fish farming
Tidal energy specialist Sustainable Marine Energy Ltd, the Scottish University of Dundee, the marine equipment supplier Gael Force Group; and the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) are exploring the development of a ‘groutless’ anchoring technology for the aquaculture industry, which could enhance the sector’s environmental impact and support its ambitions for long-term sustainable growth. The partnership aims to support the aquaculture industry in finding ways to anchor farms in new...
https://safety4sea.com/scottish-partnership-explores-groutless-anchoring-for-fish-farming/
Measures taken against contact with fishing net off China
Several marine incidents have taken place off Ningde or Kement Port of Fujian Province in the past 15 days. Vessels voyaging to that region are recommended to share this information and exercise enhanced vigilance when transiting or choosing to drop anchor within these waters.
The previous 15 days, the four incidents took place in the Ningde waters where the foreign ships always drop anchor, waiting to berth at Ningde Port or Kement Port of Fujian Province.
Specifically, Huatai Insurance Agency...
https://safety4sea.com/measures-taken-against-contact-with-fishing-net-off-china/
Fishing in India’s Coast is challenging due to warmer waters
Climate change is making an already difficult search for fish, harder, according to scientists at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in the nearby city of Kochi. Fishermen along India’s southwestern coast find nothing to fish. Because climate change has resulted to the warming of India’s coastal waters by more than a half a degree Celsius over the past 3 to 4 decades, fish populations are looking for cooler waters, making it difficult for fishermen to fish, according to...
https://safety4sea.com/fishing-in-indias-coast-is-challenging-due-to-warmer-waters/
Ship collision risk increases as China sees more fishery farms
Several marine incidents in China have been reported involving merchant vessels colliding with fishery farms, mostly off the coast of Lanshan and Rizhao areas where mussel and oyster cultivation form the bulk of aquaculture industry. Huatai Insurance Agency handled overall 71 fishery farm entry claims in China through 2017.
In this regard, Siddharth Mahajan, Loss Prevention Executive at Gard P&I Club, in cooperation with Huatai Insurance Agency, Wang Jing & Co. and Worldwide Maritime...
https://safety4sea.com/ship-collision-risk-increases-as-china-sees-more-fishery-farms/
Project eyes creation of a fish farm as the world’s largest vessel
Norwegian companies Nordlaks and NSK Ship Design have cooperated on a project that could be the beginning of a sustainable revolution in the fish farming industry. If the project is completed as it has been designed, it will result in the creation of the longest ship in the world.
In particular, on the drawing board is a ship known as Havfarm (‘Ocean Farm’), 430 metres in length and 54 metres wide, it will lay at anchor, fixed to the seafloor using the offshore industry’s technological...
https://safety4sea.com/new-project-eyes-creation-of-a-fish-farm-as-the-worlds-largest-vessel/