Ranching sea urchins, RAS shrimp production and land-based seaweed cultivation were among the ventures pitched to potential investors at Fish 2.0’s meeting in California this week.
The Fish Site's Women in Aquaculture series was highlighted at a recent seminar at the United Nations University in Tokyo, which focused on women's roles in the seafood sector.
Clara McGhee has recently started working on a salmon farm off the Isle of Muck. In the second installment of her series for The Fish Site she describes powerboat training, production systems and public perception of the salmon sector.
Patricia Barrera swapped a career in pharmaceuticals to follow her passion for aquaculture, establishing Trout Managers SAS in Colombia, which she now runs.
After several years conducting fish health checks in aquariums, Marie Tan switched to aquaculture to help minimise fish losses from disease and develop health strategies to respond quickly to disease outbreaks.
Clara McGhee has recently started working on a salmon farm off the Isle of Muck. In the first installment of a new series for The Fish Site she describes the route that took her one of the most isolated and exposed fish farms in Scotland
In the course of a decade in aquaculture Kyra Hoevenaars has worked with all manner of fish species in some of the most politically turbulent countries on the planet
With government backing, milkfish farming could offer a lifeline to Filipinos at a time when the country is facing severe fish shortages, according to the Philippine’s biggest aquaculture sector.
Following a knee injury Ragnhild Jesica Bjella swapped life as a chef for work as a commercial diver for Norway’s salmon-farming industry. Despite a number of close encounters with Greenland sharks, she hasn’t looked back since.
Not content with merely transforming an abandoned fish farm into a thriving catfish-farming cluster, Benedicta Peter-Ugheoke is also an aquaculture trainer and consultant who has helped encourage many female Nigerians to join the sector
Shweta Vakil, director of one of India's largest aquaculture companies, explains how her role involves working with hatcheries, farmers and the post-production sector to take shrimps “from farm to fork”.
Liris Maduningtyas, entrepreneur, shrimp farmer and CEO of Jala Tech, outlines how she plans to use data mining to improve shrimp health in Indonesia and beyond.
