Increased cultivation of sea sponges has been welcomed by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, but sea sponge aquaculture has become a winning sustainable development strategy for women in Zanzibar.
In the first installment of a new monthly column for The Fish Site, Professor Greg Lutz looks at how Louisiana’s crawfish farmers are faring in an extraordinary year for the sector.
An initial project to pave the way for modern selective breeding of tilapia strains farmed in East Africa has been completed recently. Genetic tools were developed, and a detailed analysis of the region’s farmed strains was carried out.
Joachim Claeyé decided to establish a burbot (Lota lota) hatchery in Belgium at the age of 18. Five years later Claeyé – who juggles running Aqualota with a job as an junior aquaculture researcher – is collaborating with his father, Guido. Together, they produ…
