Mohamed El Gendy manages a 600-tonne capacity carp farm in Erbil, northern Iraq, which might be one of the country’s most promising aquaculture operations.
Shaurya Agarwal, co-founder of Blue Wave Aquaculture, aims to not only bring quality RAS-produced rainbow trout to discerning Indian consumers, but also provide a model to catalyse a new industry in his homeland.
Scotland’s Firth of Forth Lobster Hatchery is set to start producing native oysters too, following its acquisition by Balanced Horizon - a charity that has given it a new name and a new lease of life.
Icelandic startup Ration combines artificial intelligence and computer vision to bring greater precision and automation to both ova counting and land-based salmon feeding regimes.
Indonesian startup Sambung Asa believes that their novel farming system – which includes Gracilaria, milkfish and black tiger prawns – can help to breath new life into ponds abandoned by shortsighted shrimp farmers.
In the evolving world of aquaculture, gender equality is increasingly recognised as a key driver of innovation, inclusivity, and sustainability. Yet, women remain underrepresented across the sector, even here in Scotland.
Blue carbon is a complex subject and is notoriously hard to monetise, yet two recent gatherings suggest that there is no shortage of talent emerging in the sector - talent that can be divided into two distinct, but complementary, fields.
