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Jon Parker, development lead for Aquaculture Industry Wales (AIW), explains how the organisation - which is backed by a growing number of startups - aims to improve the industry’s reputation among the public and politici…

An initiative that aims to quantify the carbon sequestration by seaweed in sediment and hopes to create market incentives for seaweed aquaculture as a solution to help address the climate crisis has won a major prize.

Scottish Sea Farms has won a hat-trick of prestigious Investors in People (IIP) accolades for its sustained investment in jobs, training and employee wellbeing.

The two recipients of its second Women in Aquaculture scholarship programme, have been announced by Kvarøy Arctic today.

Twenty-seven-year-old Abdulmalik Oladipupo is the aquaculture senior supervisor at Patec Foods Limited, which produces catfish and pangasius in an RAS farm in Nigeria.

Cell-cultured and plant-based seafood company Finless Foods has promoted Shannon Cosentino-Roush to chief strategy officer (CSO).

Kate Dempsey began her career as a law graduate but quickly found her calling in Ireland's aquaculture sector as founder of the Irish Mussel Seed Company, the Wicklow Seaweed Company and the CEO of Aqualicense.

The Yield Lab has announced the eight startups selected to participate in its Global Aquaculture Challenge (GAC) 2021 – a non-profit accelerator programme and competition.

Aquaculture is a vital source of affordable seafood, that – if backed up by education – can help to halt a deepening public health crisis in the US, according to Eric Adjepong, who is well-known for his appearances on

Aquaculture Africa 2021 is set to go ahead in the Egyptian port of Alexandria, from December 11-14, according to the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS).

Eight alt-seafood producers, including Wildtype and Blue Nalu, have made the semi-finals of a competition that aims to help feed the growing global population using alternative protein sources.

Major aquafeed companies and producers are set to discuss emerging trends in fish-free feeds for shrimp in a webinar scheduled for 15 July.

Among the most economically important farmed fish, production methods, levels of technological development and the types of fish health and well-being issues faced can vary widely — and those in the industry that make a …

A dozen fully-funded places are currently available for masters degrees in aquaculture-related subjects at the University of Stirling.

The registration deadline for The F3 Challenge – Carnivore Edition has been extended to 15 September 2021, to allow for late entrants emerging from Covid-related restrictions.

According to Jeff Cheng, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) don’t need to be used for high value species or purely by large corporations, but are well within the grasp of relatively small aquaculture players, produc…

Carlos Diaz, CEO of BioMar, explains the logic behind the company’s ambitious new 2030 sustainability goals and muses on how the company – and the wider aquaculture industry – is likely to grow in the coming decades.

Subhajit Mondal is a young entrepreneur who started working with Pasupati Aquatics Private Limited in 2014. Since then, he has taken the company to dazzling heights and has become one of the largest exporters of shrimp i…

Dr Anna Silvia Pedrazanni, fish vet and key partner in Brazil’s Tilapia Welfare Project, discusses welfare, fish health and how Brazil has the potential to become the world’s top tilapia producer.

Andreas von Scholten, CEO of Barramundi Group, talks about the future of aquaculture, the importance of vaccines and building the company’s ground-breaking operations in Brunei.