Politics

Colin Palmer has been appointed to lead the development of aquaculture and offshore renewable energy for Crown Estate Scotland, the public body that manages the leasing of Scotland’s seabed.

A million native oysters (Ostrea edulis) are due to be planted off the south coast of England next year, in a bid to boost the UK's dwindling population of the prized bivalves.

Scotland’s shellfish growing sector should be “celebrated” for the ecosystem services and the healthy food it provides, according to a leading politician.

A commercially viable pilot plan for developing mussel farming in Scotland has taken a step forward.

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.

Plans to allow aquaculture to take place in US federal waters received a setback yesterday after a coalition of fishing and public interest groups won a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce’…

While biotechnology may draw mixed responses from consumers, producers and regulators around the world, it has a crucial role in ensuring the sustainable development of global aquaculture.

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…

A new trial which is helping to finance small-scale fish farmers in Sierra Leone has enabled them to grow their businesses and boost household consumption of fish

Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) has been granted approved to establish a farm with the capacity to produce 1,274-tonnes of salmon in Orkney.

The true value of small-scale commercial aquaculture as a means of generating rural development and reducing poverty has been revealed in a new academic study.

Friends of the Earth has announced its intention to undermine attempts in the US to finally set up a process that would allow for the establishment of offshore aquaculture facilities in federal waters…

A strain of omega-3-rich GM canola, which could be used to help reduce the aquaculture industry’s reliance on fish oil in their feeds, has been approved for use by the United States Department of Agri…

Ways to address the gender inequalities in the aquaculture sector were the subject of a talk by Dr Cecile Brugere at AQUA 2018 today.

Margie Saul, a minnow farmer and bait delivery driver from Arkansas, discusses problems caused by permits, pelicans and encounters with exhibitionists on the highways of the USA

Chinese authorities have ruled that rainbow trout can now be labelled and sold domestically as salmon.

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies Canada (CATC) has received a licence that will allow it to conduct QC testing of regulated aquaculture vaccines.

Due to concerns over the pollution they generate and the impact they have on local forage fish stocks and the fishermen who traditionally rely on them, in the last few weeks, fisheries representatives…

Dr Flower Msuya, chairperson and facilitator at the Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative (ZaSCI) works in villages in Zanzibar to study climate change, modify farming methods and add value to seaweed. …

Recent trends indicate that illegal imports of fertilised eggs, fingerlings and market-ready tilapia from China are presenting a serious challenge to the efforts of sub-Saharan Africa’s fledgling fish…