The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea has increased its 2027 catch advice for Northeast Atlantic mackerel, blue whiting and Norwegian spring-spawning herring, with mackerel advice more than doubling. Industry group NAPA and the Marine Stewardship Council both caution that the improved outlook does not resolve more than a decade of unresolved quota-sharing disputes among Coastal States.
Pro-aquaculture lobby group Stronger America Through Seafood (SATS) has launched an October campaign urging Congress to pass the bipartisan Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act before the current congressional term expires in January 2027, warning that the US is missing out on the benefits of open ocean aquaculture due to a complex federal permitting process that took eight years to approve a single demonstration project this year.
India and the Netherlands have agreed to set up an Indo-Dutch Centre of Excellence on Dairy Training at CEAH, Bengaluru, following a bilateral ministerial meeting that also covered animal nutrition, antimicrobial resistance, vocational training for farmers, and the exchange of a veterinary health certificate for live horse exports.
Chilean aquaculture authorities have told parliament that land-based sanitary trenches could be used to dispose of salmon mortalities if the current El Niño climate event causes a catastrophic harmful algal bloom, an approach reserved only for the most extreme scenarios and aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2016 sea-dumping crisis.
The UK Agri-Tech Centre has begun a formal redundancy consultation affecting up to 80 staff as it shifts strategy away from direct testing and towards a partner-led model, while insisting aquaculture remains central to its plans. The future of its co-owned Marine Aquaculture Innovation Centre (MAIC) at Otter Ferry Seafish in Argyll is under review, though Otter Ferry's managing director expects the facility to continue operating normally.
Tanzania's aquaculture output grew from 44,735 tonnes in 2020/21 to 234,525 tonnes in 2025/26, according to Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries data, as cage numbers, hatchery capacity and commercial feed use all expanded sharply. The country's director of aquaculture outlines priorities including feed manufacturing, cold-chain investment and sustainability governance ahead of the World Aquaculture Tanzania 2026 conference in Dar es Salaam.
A report by the UK-based Changing Markets Foundation, prepared with researchers from the University of British Columbia, warns that up to 46% of the world's wild fish catch could be redirected to aquaculture feed by 2040 if farming of predatory species such as salmon and shrimp continues to expand. The findings were released in Rome ahead of a meeting of the FAO Committee on Fisheries. The FAO has pushed back on some of the study's framing, clarifying its actual 2030 growth targets and questioning whether marine ingredient volumes would necessarily rise.
Indonesian agri-food group PT JAPFA has held exploratory talks with Cambodia's Ministry of Agriculture over potential investments in aquaculture, animal feed production, and related value-chain activities, reflecting a broader push to deepen ASEAN economic ties and regional food security.
