Biosecurity

Forty-year-old Arturo Nieves works as production director of the shrimp farming company Aquacultores del Mar Azul, located in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico.

Although Tunisia has a relatively undeveloped aquaculture sector, it has huge potential – with 1,350 kilometres of Mediterranean coastline, a maritime domain of over 80,000 square kilometres and seven lagoons covering 100,000 hectares.

Batakrushna Sahoo, who hails from Odisha state in Eastern India, is one of the region’s most revered farmers, having played an instrumental role in fish production for over three decades.

Dr Melony Sellars, CEO and managing director of Genics Pty Ltd, recently developed four new real-time PCR assays that can help detect the presence of decapod iridescent virus (DIV1) in shrimp.

Researchers are beginning to highlight the potential of immunostimulants as a sustainable disease prevention strategy for shrimp aquaculture. Here’s a run-down of how these molecules work, their origins and how they can be used to combat outbreaks of white spo…

Triploidy is widely used in aquaculture to improve growth rates, reduce possible impacts of farmed animals on wild aquatic ecosystems and enhance product quality, but there’s room for improvement and for alternative technologies.

An innovative container design has shown promising results for use in international air freight of live fish.

Shrimp that have been bred for their resistance to disease and ability to thrive despite environmental challenges should be valued as highly – if not more highly – than those bred for their growth rates in many parts of Indonesia.

Shrimp farming veteran Victoria Alday Sanz, who is also editor of the newly-published second volume of The shrimp book, explains why her original deserved a follow-up.

The three Fernandez Muniz brothers are pioneering a new form of shellfish farming on Galicia’s Ria de Arousa – ongrowing clams in lantern nets in order to improve the fortunes of the thousands of artisanal shellfish producers that operate in the Rias Biaxas re…

According to Ohad Maiman, founder and CEO of The Kingfish Company, they can indeed – although he warned that sustainability is by no means “a free pass” to profitability.

New research suggests that balancing levels of phytoplankton in shrimp ponds can prevent the growth of Vibrios, including Vibrio parahaemolyticus – the causative agent of EMS/AHPND.

In collaboration with local villagers and scientists, an international team of researchers are breeding and releasing freshwater prawns into the Senegal River in an attempt to combat a spiralling outbreak of schistosomiasis – a disease that has infected millio…

Despite being susceptible to multiple viral and bacterial diseases, less than 5 percent of farmed tilapia are vaccinated. How can stakeholders work together to improve the industry’s vaccine uptake?