Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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.

Covid-19 has created a further setbacks for Ghana’s aquaculture industry, just when it started recovering from the losses encountered as a result of the ISKNV outbreak on Lake Volta.

The Ecuadorian shrimp industry has announced a serious contraction in its production and exports, as a result of the Covid-19-related market crisis and reduced global demand.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has today launched a rapid-response funding call to support the country’s aquaculture sector through the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 may have slashed India’s annual shrimp production by over 200,000 tonnes, but clever farmers should be well placed to return to profit before the year is out, according to one of the country’s leading experts.

The coronavirus pandemic reduced Ecuadorian shrimp exports by 25,000 tonnes in just two months in the first quarter of the year according to recently published statistics.

Coastal communities can benefit from aquaculture in restored habitats such as mangroves, according to the second installment of the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy Report series.

Four possible scenarios for the development of global aquaculture have been suggested in a thought-provoking new study.

Despite the turbulent economic climate, Netherlands-based The Kingfish Company is expanding - and charting new waters in the USA.

The latest statistical analysis shows that the EU’s attempts to step up and revive aquaculture production have proved to be costly, and have had very limited results. We investigate why this might be the case.

In the first installment of a new monthly column for The Fish Site, Professor Greg Lutz looks at how Louisiana’s crawfish farmers are faring in an extraordinary year for the sector.

World Aquaculture 2020 is due to go ahead as planned, the organisers have announced today.

Scottish Sea Farms has announced that it will pay back in full the furlough scheme funding it received from the UK government during the COVID-19 restrictions.

Norwegian salmon exports to China fell by a third last week following links between salmon imports and the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in Beijing.

A new wave of COVID-19 in China has prompted the country to stop importing Norwegian salmon, after the virus was detected on boards used for cutting up imported salmon at the Xinfadi food market in Beijing.