Water quality

Having recently secured at least $30 million in funding to develop a novel system to revolutionise water-quality monitoring, Professor Chin-yuan Hsieh explains his ambitions in aquaculture.

Innovasea Systems has completed the acquisition of Norway-based Nortek Akvakultur.

The UK’s growing space and satellite sector can play a vital role in improving global aquaculture production.

One of South East Asia’s largest shrimp farming groups is the Lim Shrimp Organization (LSO), which has established a network of integrated farming projects known as Aqua Villages. In 2018, it complete…

Marine fish pens in one of the Philippine’s largest milkfish producing zones are being dismantled in an attempt to improve water quality.

Papers on the use of aeration in catfish culture, how bioflocs contribute to shrimp nutrition and why standardisation is vital for successful cryopreservation to safeguard key aquaculture stocks were …

A novel aquaculture feeding concept is exploiting the pond ecosystem to encourage farmed fish and shrimp to ingest naturally occurring food alongside feed – a system that has the potential to reduce b…

A new study suggests that Chinese crayfish producers would improve the performance of their farms and their finances if they relied more on natural food items and less on the provision of supplementar…

A Taiwanese company that has developed a system to help prevent the build-up of toxic chemicals in water used by the aquaculture industry has secured US $50 million in funding.

The true value of cultured bivalves such as mussels and oysters is chronically underestimated, according to a new report.

Umitron, a producer of AI-based feeding systems, has secured US $2 million in funding for a project that aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of rainbow trout farmers in Peru.

Plankton and high sea temperatures combined to wipe out around half of the salmon at two sites run by Wester Ross this summer.

A new range of UV filters has been approved by the Norwegian authorities, following impressive results from extensive wellboat trials.

In the face of rising production costs and limited land and water availability, Egyptian fish farmers are looking for new ways to achieve higher productivity and profitability

Across West Africa, smart solutions are beginning to unlock the enormous potential for domestic, sustainable fish farming at a local level. One ingenious project is SkyFox – which integrates catfish f…

A million native oysters (Ostrea edulis) are due to be planted off the south coast of England next year, in a bid to boost the UK's dwindling population of the prized bivalves.

Charoen Pokphands Foods (CPF) has announced plans to stop farming shrimp in outdoor facilities within the next five years.

An outbreak of algae – possibly caused by agricultural run-off – is suspected as the cause of 750,000 mortalities at a salmon farm in the Faroe Islands last week.

Liris Maduningtyas, entrepreneur, shrimp farmer and CEO of Jala Tech, outlines how she plans to use data mining to improve shrimp health in Indonesia and beyond.

A project to test cutting-edge techniques that could help to protect the aquaculture industry from the impact of harmful algal blooms (HABs) and other water quality issues has kicked off in Scotland t…