Health

A new report by WWF cites the Global Salmon Initiative as a glowing example of how a sector can improve its sustainability and profitability if companies instigate pre-competitive collaboration in key areas.

A new online course on antimicrobial stewardship in the food chain aims to educate the livestock industry – including the aquaculture sector – on how to implement a more responsible approach to using antibiotics.

Two months after its last report on the global animal protein production sector, Rabobank’s Gorjan Nikolik offers The Fish Site some revised thoughts on the recent performance of the fishmeal, salmon and shrimp sectors as well as some insights into their outlo…

Tilapia that have not been treated with hormones appear to be more robust against diseases such as tilapia lake virus, strengthening the argument to use males produced via more natural means.

Andy Shinn, director of Fish Vet Group Asia, and a world renowned expert on aquatic parasites, believes that the shrimp sector can do more to limit the impact of those disease challenges that form the sector’s largest constraint.

To mark both European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD) and the start of WHO’s World Antibiotic Awareness week, Dr Chris Matthews, operations director at Fish Vet Group, talks to The Fish Site about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in global aquaculture and what i…

Nonglak “Anne” Thaisin, founder and CEO of Quality Farm, has been producing vannamei shrimp in Thailand for 27 years. Here she explains how adaptability and the development of new production systems, as well as new feeds and health products, is essential to st…

Shrimp producers are going to have to embrace new technologies and production techniques if they are going survive, according to Rabobank’s senior seafood analyst Gorjan Nikolik.

Farmed mussels are showing promising results as a feed for wrasse used as cleaner fish in the fight against sea lice in the salmon aquaculture sector.