The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this sometimes presents trade-offs in fish welfare.
Asia’s shrimp farmers need to reboot their attitude to biosecurity and stocking densities, argues Robins McIntosh, in a follow-on to Monday’s article on the dangers of disinfection*.
The past few months have been gruelling for a number of tilapia farmers on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria, with the deaths of hundreds of millions of fish.
A new multi-cohort trial has demonstrated the efficacy of semi-closed containment systems (SCCS) for Atlantic salmon – with results showing lower lice counts, higher growth rates, higher final weights and higher survival rates for salmon in Preline’s SCCS comp…
Stolt Sea Farm is already one of the leading flatfish farming companies in the West – producing over 7,000 tonnes of turbot and sole in sustainable land-based facilities – and it has ambitious plans to expand.
A new paper argues that there’s an urgent need to improve understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in host resistance to whitespot syndrome virus (WSSV) and sea lice – two of the greatest health challenges facing shrimp and salmon farming respectively.…
