Broodstock management

While many grandiose aquaculture projects have failed to live up to their promise in the Middle East, Fish Farms LLC – which includes a hatchery, cage farms and RAS facilities in Dubai – offers an example of what can be …

Victoria Emmanuel, founder of Sokvikia Fisheries, runs a fish production, processing and distribution business in Nigeria that aims to mainly sell to women who are concerned about food safety, while promoting food securi…

A novel floating, modular RAS design is at the centre of a startup’s vision to scale up the fledgeling Atlantic bluefin tuna aquaculture sector.

Victory Farms might have achieved a great deal in their first seven years, but – as company CEO, Joseph Rehmann, explains in the second part of the article – fresh challenges and opportunities await.

Though indoor shrimp farming has been tapped as a potential disruptor in the aquaculture space, investors have been hesitant to sign on the dotted line. But according to Aurore Gil of ADM Capital Europe, this reflects an…

New research advancements have moved cod genetics away from family selection to individual selection – allowing the aquaculture industry to increase its genetic gains.

The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this sometimes presents trade-offs…

Following a challenging seven years, Nigeria’s first commercial-scale black tiger prawn producer is now up, running and ready to supply high end markets with ASC certified shrimp – from Lagos, to Rotterdam and beyond.

The 50th anniversary of Cloan Hatcheries is an astonishing milestone in the trout farming sector that Dick Haldane is rightly proud of. However – unlike one of his other achievements – it hasn’t yet earned him a telegram…

Asia’s shrimp farmers need to reboot their attitude to biosecurity and stocking densities, argues Robins McIntosh, in a follow-on to Monday’s article on the dangers of disinfection*.

Genetic researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have mapped the genome of pearl oyster and found that preserving genetic diversity could boost immunity in broodstocks while improving yield…

A consortium of researchers have reviewed and outlined the emerging and increasing disease threat facing Macrobrachium rosenbergii aquaculture and notes the sector's current reliance on antibiotic therapies.

The US Sea Grant programme is devoting additional funds towards kampachi and shrimp breeding and genetics in Hawai’i as part of efforts to strengthen US aquaculture.

International experts came to the University of Maine for the third annual Recirculating Aquaculture Salmon Network (RAS-N) and the first-ever Sustainable Aquaculture Systems Supporting Salmon (SAS2) conference.

After establishing its zebrafish facility in 2003, the university has used the South Asian fish as a model organism to study everything from bacterial infections to muscular dystrophy – and researchers hope to expand the…

Gishanda Fish Farm, a new development initiative between Akagera National Park, FoodTechAfrica and a consortium of Dutch companies, begins operations on 18 October.

Researchers from France's INRAE institute are looking back on 20 years of genetic research in rainbow trout and the sustainability gains genetics tech and breeding have brought to the aquaculture sector.

Indonesia has developed a range of local strains of tilapia, largely to improve growth rates and general disease resistance, but there’s still scope for these to be more widely adopted.

NOAA Sea Grant has announced $2.1 million to fund four projects that advance aquaculture research and extension to support sustainable aquaculture in Maine.

Gold River Productions, a segment of Trans American Aquaculture, will supply shrimp post larvae (PLs) to the universities to support their research efforts in sustainable food production and aquaculture nutrition.