Events

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.

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

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.

The latest in a series of webinars organised by the team behind the F3 Challenge, which is focusing on emerging trends with alternative feeds for salmonids, will be live streaming on The Fish Site on 17 June.

The build-up to the UN’s inaugural Food Systems Summit is the perfect time for aquaculture producers to promote the role that blue foods can play in supporting the SDGs.

A webinar looking at how the shrimp sector can become more sustainable through the use of novel feed ingredients took place on 11 May.