Food security

Jeff Hetrick, director of the Alutiiq Pride Marine Institute, a tribally managed marine research facility in Seward, Southeast Alaska, offers insights into the potential offered by the state’s growing mariculture sector, and the pitfalls it needs to overcome.

Independent sustainable shrimp producers will go out of business unless retailers are willing to pay more for their product, according to Jessica Rivera Rodriguez, sales director at MER Seafood, one of Honduras’s largest privately owned shrimp companies.

Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing incomparable growth rates, and experts expect these to continue apace, as it bids to finally fulfil its aquaculture potential.

A background in conventional business makes Chuck Toombs a somewhat unconventional addition to the US seaweed sector, but the founder of Oregon Seaweed believes that this might give him an edge over some of the more idealistically-motivated operators in the sp…

Anna Sabirbayeva, general director of Organic Fish - a prospective trout producer – explains the company’s plans to develop the Caspian Sea’s first cage salmonid farm, along with their goals to help conserve the endemic Caspian salmon.

Reducing the harvest weight of tilapia is proving commercially astute and boosting food security in Africa – according to the continent’s largest producer, Victory Farms.

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is slowly being transformed by groundwater extraction, overpopulation, pollution and climate change. Unsolved, this will dramatically reduce Vietnam’s aquaculture output and pose a serious threat to local and regional food security.

Aquaponics facilities are generally more profitable than the recirculation aquaculture systems (RASs) that have sprung up in the US in the past decades.