Events

According to Ohad Maiman, founder and CEO of The Kingfish Company, they can indeed – although he warned that sustainability is by no means “a free pass” to profitability.

By adopting the “basic building block” of tilapia farming, producers across Africa can establish and scale operations in both urban and rural environments – moving Africa’s tilapia industry beyond subsistence farming.

New analysis suggests that pond aquaculture could be the tilapia industry’s best way to profitably intensify production – and that, other than for a few notable exceptions, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) will remain relatively unprofitable in the near…

Pond-based tilapia farmers could benefit from adopting a novel method for intensifying the production of carp and other species that has recently been successful in Eastern Europe.

Though insect protein startups are generating splashy headlines and bringing new players into the aquafeed industry, single-cell and microbial proteins might be a key feed component in the future.

Blue carbon is emerging as a new conservation game-changer and climate mitigation strategy, but practitioners say that investors and policymakers should think twice before they fall for the hype.

Despite being susceptible to multiple viral and bacterial diseases, less than 5 percent of farmed tilapia are vaccinated. How can stakeholders work together to improve the industry’s vaccine uptake?

Ahead of the inaugural meeting of the World Aquaculture Society’s African Chapter, which is due to take place in Alexandria this month, Harrison Charo Karisa – one of the key organisers of the event – discusses the prospects of the continent’s aquaculture sect…

Hatch and Conservation International (CI) have put 10 female-led aquaculture businesses through their paces as part of their first-ever Women in Aquaculture Innovation Studio programme.

As the aquaculture industry expands, it needs every feed option – both conventional and alternative – at its disposal. But what steps can the sector take to bring sustainable feed ingredients online?

A recent initiative brought together a group of 20 women from a variety of backgrounds, to return to work following breaks in their careers. Three of the participants reflect on why they took part and what they now plan to achieve.

India Boyer is a dealflow manager at Hatch, a role that involves finding – and tracking – emerging startups across the aquaculture value chain, looking to forge possible investments and partnerships. She is also currently in the process of recruiting participa…

Instead of treating and discarding wastewater from food processing, Mark Rottmann, CEO of iCell Aqua, is integrating it with RAS – bringing the industry closer to achieving zero-waste and fully circular protein production.*

Ireland’s fourth entrepreneurial aquaculture and alternative seafood programme is currently open to applications from researchers, inventors, startups, entrepreneurs and established companies in these sectors or adjacent industries.