World Economic Forum calls for "nature-positive" aquaculture 15 Jul 2020 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.
Aquatic chickens or blue internationalism? 13 Jul 2020 Four possible scenarios for the development of global aquaculture have been suggested in a thought-provoking new study.
Kingfish moves across the pond 7 Jul 2020 Despite the turbulent economic climate, Netherlands-based The Kingfish Company is expanding - and charting new waters in the USA.
Where’s the return on the EU’s aquaculture investment? 29 Jun 2020 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.
Crawfish aquaculture: a season in review 24 Jun 2020 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 set to go ahead 22 Jun 2020 World Aquaculture 2020 is due to go ahead as planned, the organisers have announced today.
Salmon farmer repays COVID furlough funding 19 Jun 2020 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.
COVID links impact Norwegian salmon exports 18 Jun 2020 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.
Norway denies China Covid links 17 Jun 2020 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.
RAStech to be postponed by 12 months 17 Jun 2020 The annual RAStech conference and tradeshow has been postponed for a year due to the continued disruption related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cyclone and pandemic prove doubly destructive for shrimp farming in West Bengal 12 Jun 2020 Cyclone Amphan has compounded the miseries of the shrimp industry in Bengal, which was already reeling under the severe blow of the coronavirus-related lockdown.
COVID helps to fast-track kingfish aquaculture development 10 Jun 2020 Plans to establish a yellowtail kingfish hatchery in Western Australia are going to be fast-tracked in a bid to boost the region’s economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Steering the States towards sustainable offshore aquaculture 4 Jun 2020 Danielle Blacklock, who was recently appointed director of NOAA’s Office of Aquaculture, talks to The Fish Site about how to ensure the US develops a sustainable offshore aquaculture sector, what the country can learn fr…
A new Benchmark in shrimp production 1 Jun 2020 As Benchmark’s shrimp facility in Florida begins to gear up towards commercial production, Oscar Hennig, operations director of Benchmark Genetics’ shrimp-breeding programme – who has been in the shrimp sector for nearly…
An executive decision that's a catalyst for US aquaculture 29 May 2020 Opinion President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth constitutes a major step forward for the US seafood industry, which has the capacity to generate thousands of new…
Gujarat faces 40 percent reduction in farmed shrimp 28 May 2020 Gujarat’s shrimp aquaculture sector, which produced around 45,000 tonnes in 2019, faces a reduction in annual production of up to 40 percent, due to the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aquaculture Canada and WAS North America postponed by pandemic 27 May 2020 The Aquaculture Canada and WAS North America 2020 conference has been postponed by a year, due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brussels backs trout and shellfish aquaculture 18 May 2020 Funding worth £800,000 has been awarded to eleven of Scotland’s shellfish growers and trout producers, in a bid to mitigate the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic.
Salmon sector calls on governmental support to boost exports 15 May 2020 The Scottish salmon sector is calling on governmental support to improve market access, following a significant downturn in export sales caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
An analyst's outlook on the post-COVID seafood economy 14 May 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to act as a catalyst for a number of key changes in the global seafood sector, according to Rabobank’s Gorjan Nikolik