Environment

The benefits of a mangrove-sensitive shrimp aquaculture project that’s currently operational in Indonesia have been highlighted in a recent article by the World Economic Forum.

The scion of the Cousteau dynasty discusses the benefits of restorative aquaculture, the importance of connecting consumers with aquatic farmers and her new initiative, Oceans 2050.

The World Sustainability Organization (WSO) and The Good Food Institute (GFI) Sustainable Seafood Initiative today announced that the two organisations have initiated a joint certification programme for plant-based seafo…

Ahead of the Global Conference on Aquaculture (GCA) Millennium +20, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is convening a series of webinars, commencing with the presentation of six Regional Reviews of Aquaculture, c…

Restorative aquaculture is being promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of four key ways to protect the oceans.

As part of a new series for The Fish Site, the experts at leading aquaculture financial tech company Alune share their insights and knowledge on how to manage water quality in shrimp aquaculture.

Insect farming startup Ÿnsect has extended its Series C funding to $372 million – the largest amount ever raised by a non-American agtech business.

The US Senate has introduced bipartisan legislation to promote aquaculture in federal waters, but local opposition remains strong.

New guidelines that aim to ensure better social and environmental practices in global farmed shrimp supply chains have been published by WWF today.

A new type of feeding system that uses water, rather than air, to deliver feed pellets from a feed barge to its surrounding cages has shown to be effective at a commercial salmon site.

Oysters from Saint-Simon Bay in northern New Brunswick have been shown to be impressive tolerance to ocean acidification, according to a new study in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.

The Nature Conservancy has been partnering with the Government of Belize, non-profits, the private sector and local fishers – including women – to develop an innovative sustainable seaweed mariculture industry that provi…

The Seafood Task Force has been instrumental in improving supply chain collaboration and new norms – in terms of human rights, labour conditions and the sourcing of sustainable feed ingredients – in the Thai shrimp farmi…

Grieg Seafood has decided to discontinue its operations on the Isle of Skye following the jellyfish-related death of 627,000 thousand salmon.

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…

A coalition of 110 aquatic scientific societies, representing over 80,000 scientists, has signed the American Fisheries Society’s “Statement of World Aquatic Scientific Societies on the Need to Take Urgent Action Against…

Dr Carsten Krome, managing partner and co-founder of Hatch, is keen to ensure that people are able to distinguish between good, bad and indifferent forms of aquaculture.

Ensuring optimum water quality parameters is the biggest challenge for ensuring the smooth running of a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).

Scientists have determined that salmon post-smolts tolerate similar levels of ozone in brackish water – which is increasingly used in RAS facilities – as they do in freshwater.

Researchers have developed a cost-effective “fish-free” feed for carnivorous marine finfish, in which fishmeal and fish oil have been replaced by poultry meal and algal oil respectively.