How a new breed of breeder is transforming US shrimp production17 Jun 2019How American Penaeid rose from the rubble of two hurricanes to create a new model for shrimp production in the US.
Could catfish oust tilapia as Ghana’s favourite farmed fish species?15 Jun 2019How the Nigerian taste for catfish is spreading to Ghana – where some think it might even replace tilapia as the country’s favourite fish.
Cleaner shrimp – a newly minted alternative to parasite protection on fish farms12 Jun 2019Peppermint cleaner shrimp are showing potential as a natural alternative to conventional fish health treatments in aquaculture.
Hyper-drive: the pros and cons of intensive RAS production in the US10 Jun 2019The hyper-intensive production of tropical species might be a hard sell in the US, but a handful of companies have developed systems that have made successful leaps in the sector.
Carbon capture to fuel fishmeal alternative18 Jun 2019Plans to produce single-cell protein for fish feed, fuelled by carbon dioxide from one of the UK’s largest power stations, have been announced this week.
CP to enter Sri Lankan shrimp sector18 Jun 2019Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP Foods) has acquired a 75 percent stake in a Sri Lankan-based shrimp producer, Lotus Aquaculture.
INVE takes artemia to the next level18 Jun 2019Pioneering technologies that create Artemia that can suppress vibrio growth and hatch in the dark have been launched today by INVE Aquaculture, Benchmark’s Advanced Nutrition division, today.
Low trophic aquaculture given high research priority17 Jun 2019A new international research and industry enterprise has been formed to accelerate the development, education and communication of sustainable low-trophic aquaculture in the nations bordering the Atla…
SeaWeb delegates tour Thai Union feedmill17 Jun 2019Calysta joins Thai Union for field trip to Samut Sakhon feedmill to show SeaWeb delegates sustainable aquafeed in action.
Registration open for Benchmark’s Trondheim seminar12 Jun 2019Fish health and genetics are set to top the agenda at Benchmark’s seminar during AquaNor 2019.
2019 Aquaculture Awards: winners announced30 May 2019The winners of this year’s Aquaculture Awards were revealed at a special dinner held in Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth yesterday evening.
Aquaculture companies urged to enter environmental awards31 Mar 2019Scottish aquaculture businesses are being encouraged to become world leaders in sustainability and embrace the economic opportunities that environmental changes can bring.
Aquaculture 2019 in numbers and pictures10 Mar 2019A selection of images from this week's Aquaculture 2019 event in New Orleans, which attracted a record 3,500 participants from 85 countries, 205 trade stands, 104 sessions, 1,350 speakers and 225 post…
Ÿnsect unveils €20 million mealworm facility11 Jun 2019French mealworm farming firm Ÿnsect today has unveiled plans for a fully automated €20 million facility, which will eventually be capable of producing 200,000 tonnes of insect protein a year.
F3 Fish Oil Challenge prize money doubles17 May 2019Veramaris remains in lead at halfway point of global aquaculture feed competition
High hopes for Ghana's first soldier fly facility12 Apr 2019Cycle Farms, a French-owned biotechnology company, has opened its first insect meal production facility in Ghana.
Is the tide turning in favour of alternative protein producers?8 Apr 2019Despite struggling to achieve bulk production volumes and compete with global commodities such as fishmeal and soy, opportunities for alternative protein producers in aquafeed sector are only going to…
Cleaner shrimp – a newly minted alternative to parasite protection on fish farms12 Jun 2019Peppermint cleaner shrimp are showing potential as a natural alternative to conventional fish health treatments in aquaculture.
Volta tilapia tragedy continues19 May 2019Tilapia producers on Lake Volta are calling for urgent action by the Ghanaian government to deal with the very high level of fish mortalities, which they believe have been caused by the operations of …
The godfather of shrimp probiotics14 May 2019How a pioneering Australian scientist teamed up with one of the world’s most advanced aquaculture nutrition companies to defy conventional academic wisdom and develop a range of probiotics that has en…
Fish health from the front line22 Apr 2019Mowi farm technician Clara McGhee discusses the main fish health challenges facing Scottish salmon farmers, the range of methods used to resolve them and some of the gross misconceptions surrounding t…
Big Data dividend?3 Jun 2019Big Data solutions in aquaculture could revolutionise the industry, making it safer, easier to manage and more productive. But there could be security and economic dilemmas with adopting digital techn…
Self-farming aquaculture? It’s closer than you think…20 May 2019With remote robots set to carry out more and more routine tasks and facial-recognition software being applied to salmon, automation is already making waves in aquaculture. But just how far, and how so…
New cage concept aims to take salmon sector by storm23 Apr 2019Mowi has applied for 36 development licences for an unmanned, undersea “AquaStorm” salmon pen concept.
How RAS farming can alleviate environmental pressure in East Africa24 May 2019The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s projec…
AE2019 welcomes Women in Aquaculture event18 Apr 2019A seminar looking at ways to ensure greater gender diversity at all levels of the aquaculture sector is scheduled to take place in Berlin on 9 October, as part of this year’s Aquaculture Europe (AE201…
Women in Aquaculture: Yukiko Furukawa21 Jan 2019Seaweed aquaculture is prominent across Japan, but in the southern prefecture of Saga it has a particularly successful history. Home to seaweed farming for more than a century, Saga faces the Ariake …
Women in aquaculture: Marie-Aude Danguy16 Jan 2019Originally from Brittany, Marie-Aude Danguy has been living and working in Ireland since the 1990s. She began working with a group of local shellfish farmers before establishing her own company, Trisk…
Women in aquaculture: Professor Felicity Huntingford7 Jan 2019The emeritus professor of functional ecology at the University of Glasgow, who is one of the world’s preeminent experts on fish behaviour, discusses salmon welfare, nesting sticklebacks… and a near de…
Registration open for Benchmark’s Trondheim seminar12 Jun 2019Fish health and genetics are set to top the agenda at Benchmark’s seminar during AquaNor 2019.
2019 Aquaculture Awards: winners announced30 May 2019The winners of this year’s Aquaculture Awards were revealed at a special dinner held in Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth yesterday evening.
Cybersecurity: a growing concern1 May 2019SponsoredThe increasingly automated nature of the aquaculture sector makes it vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to Sunderland Marine - the leading international insurer of aquaculture, angling lakes and v…
There's more to methonine than growth24 Apr 2019SponsoredMethionine is not only one of the most important amino acids for fish growth, but it is also plays a vital role in maintaining the health and welfare of a wide variety of farmed fish species.
