The overuse of disinfectants, coupled with farmers’ willingness to exceed their systems’ carrying capacities, have been key factors in the downfall of the Asian shrimp sector over the last decade, according to Robins McIntosh*.
The production of shrimp in Asia is likely to experience minimal growth in 2023, according to Gorjan Nikolik, who also argues that prices are unlikely to improve much from their current level.
The Norwegian government’s plans to dramatically increase tax on salmon production is likely to have a raft of unintended negative consequences along the salmon supply chain, without having a long term benefit to the country’s coffers, according to Gorjan Niko…
More first movers are needed to unlock a market that could have a potentially pivotal impact on the future of key fed aquaculture sectors such as salmon farming*.
Benjamin Orishaba, a 28-year-old Ugandan, is currently managing three tilapia hatcheries for a government fish farming project in Cote D’Ivoire and also runs his own aquaculture consultancy company.
According to Essam Yassin Mohammed and Michelle Tigchelaar from WorldFish, the COP27 climate talks in Egypt must be ambitious and commit to a roadmap that unlocks the potential of blue industries and those who depend upon them to thrive.
Basel Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Octopus, which claims to be the, “first scientific aquaculture initiative in Egypt and the Arab region that is managed by youth and covers production, disease control and environmental awareness."
Most of the fish currently farmed in the sea are carnivores, but there’s a strong argument for producing more marine herbivores, which don’t depend on diets containing fish meal and fish oil.
Heather Sadusky has been on a mission to give consumers access to sustainable seafood and has worked across the US, Hong Kong and the Caribbean to achieve her goals. She's now leading the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership's traceability efforts in the aquacult…
In three years Ireland's Pure Ocean Algae has domesticated a wild dulse, a red seaweed species, and created a fully-fledged macroalgae value chain. The Fish Site sat down with founder Michael O'Neill to learn more about his processes and Ireland's pot…
Oceanfarmr*, the new name for SmartOysters, is looking to apply its technology across the wider aquaculture sector – initially targeting mussel and seaweed producers – and has also launched a new finance tool for farmers.
