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According to Jeff Cheng, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) don’t need to be used for high value species or purely by large corporations, but are well within the grasp of relatively small aquaculture players, produc…

Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) has reported revenues of $21.4 million in Q2, up from $13.6 million in the same quarter last year, when the demand for SSF’s products was significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Newly published statistics demonstrate that Scotland’s shellfish aquaculture sector has - as suspected - been hit hard by the drop in demand caused by Covid-19.

Andreas von Scholten, CEO of Barramundi Group, talks about the future of aquaculture, the importance of vaccines and building the company’s ground-breaking operations in Brunei.

UK seafood businesses are being invited to share their experiences of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic, as a team of researchers seeks to find out how resilient the sector will be to future challenges.

The 32-year-old is the head of Dunamis Golden Farms, located at the Akuse end of the Volta Lake, in eastern Ghana, as well as a distributor of fish feed, and a provider of technical services to young fish farms.

Bangladesh’s finfish aquaculture industry must make key financial and technological investments following the Covid-19 pandemic in order to re-establish its growth trajectory.

One of Australia’s leading oyster producers has announced plans to double production, following a substantial investment from a rural fund manager.

A new document that aims to make EU aquaculture more sustainable and competitive has been welcomed by the head of the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP).

Great British Prawns, Scotland’s first and only producer of vannamei shrimp has entered administration following a drop in demand caused by Covid-related restaurant closures.

An initiative to stabilise Nigeria’s aquaculture sector, following disruptions caused by Covid-19, has been launched by the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative.

EU aquaculture was set for higher sales values for the same production volumes, but disruptions stemming from Covid-19 stalled the sector's progress.

A renaissance in Bali’s seaweed farming sector is being widely touted as a sustainable alternative to tourism, following the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, but the reality is much more complicated.

Despite the recurring presence of Covid-19, the organisers of Aquaculture America have declared that the event will indeed take place in San Antonio, Texas, on 11-14 August.

A group of researchers in the Philippines is looking to develop and commercialise an app that helps farmers differentiate between three very closely connected crab species – a goal that could save the crab ranching secto…

Naua Lakai lives on Vava’u, one of the 36 inhabited islands of Tonga. She dropped out of teachers’ college when she became a mother and is now one of the most successful pearl farmers on her island.

A recent study has described Indian aquaculture practises as unhygienic and unhealthy. But farmers claim that the report is biased and risks causing economic damage to an industry that is trying to recover after the pand…

While the aquaculture sector may have suffered numerous setbacks following the outbreak of Covid-19 the finance sector has shown a remarkable appetite to invest in it.

Crab farmers in the Philippines have been thrown a lifeline after the government suspended an order that previously prevented them from catching and selling wild mangrove crabs for ongrowing.

Through her own shellfish hatchery, Victoria Parks has been taking steps to support local clam growers in Florida and maintain healthy, sustainable farming practices.