Coronavirus (COVID-19)

The USDA has earmarked an additional $14 billion for aquaculture producers who continue to face market disruptions and increased costs due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

After the India’s lockdown in March put the summer shrimp season in jeopardy, researchers estimate that the shrimp industry could face a $1.5 billion loss for 2020-2021. But government safeguards and improved labour retention could keep firms afloat for the winter season.…

Tilapia producers in different countries have fared very differently in 2020. This run-through of the key regions provides a valuable overview of a year that many will want to forget.

Ghana’s tilapia and catfish farmers are both optimistic about the growth of their respective sectors, leading to much good-natured talk about which will prevail in the long-term “war”.

In the first installment of a new series for The Fish Site, Sophie Ryan, CEO of the Global Salmon Initiative, explains why the current pandemic strengthens the argument for aquaculture producers to raise their sustainabi…

The Ecuadorian government has announced that it is stepping up biosecurity measures in shrimp processing plants, as it seeks to regain access to the full Chinese market.

A chronic oversupply of seafood means that a large quantity of this year's aquaculture output could end up in landfill sites, according to a new report.

Seafarms, the Australian prawn farming company behind the ambitious Project Sea Dragon, has reported a 22 percent production reduction in the 12 months up to 30 June.

A recent research article highlighting the potential of seaweed as an effective means of protecting people from coronavirus, has been recognised by the World Health Organisation.

India’s shrimp exports have dropped 23 percent in July from the same period in 2019 on scant supplies.

China’s northern Shanxi province announces a ban on the sale, purchase or use of shrimp imports from Ecuador in an effort to control the novel coronavirus.

Mowi ASA has suspended dividends and warns of job cuts by 2024 in today’s second quarter results.

The state government in Odisha, India has launched a new policy to promote biofloc farming in intensive aquaculture operations.

Plans to stock one of the most extraordinary fish farms on the planet have been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This year’s Seafood Expo Asia has been cancelled due to ongoing health and safety issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ecuador’s production and trade minister expects a quick resolution to a trade dispute with China after traces of the SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, were detected in a container of exported shrimp.

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted different countries very differently – as illustrated by the stark differences in the performance of the shrimp sectors of Ecuador and Vietnam.

A detailed breakdown of the impact that Covid-19 has had on Ghana’s fish farmers has been presented to the country’s fisheries minister.

A range of polysaccharides extracted from edible seaweed have been shown to at least match the efficacy of remdesivir, the current standard antiviral used to combat Covid-19, in new lab-based trials.

Benchmark is selling its vaccine manufacturing facility as part of a £100 million UK government project to mass produce a vaccine against Covid-19.