Policy

The USDA has earmarked an additional $14 billion for aquaculture producers who continue to face market disruptions and increased costs due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

After the India’s lockdown in March put the summer shrimp season in jeopardy, researchers estimate that the shrimp industry could face a $1.5 billion loss for 2020-2021. But government safeguards and improved labour rete…

Plans to kickstart a $100 million seaweed farming sector have been launched in Australia this month.

The state government in Odisha, India has launched a new policy to promote biofloc farming in intensive aquaculture operations.

Fish farming is getting increasingly widespread in Zimbabwe, thanks to a joint drive to promote it.

By capitalising on its geography and adopting a “blue growth” economic policy, Bangladesh has become the fifth largest global aquaculture producer – and is expected to keep growing.

The EU’s attempts to diversity its aquaculture production have met decidedly mixed results to date, but aquaculture producers have a number of overlooked, yet impressive, native candidates to contend with.

Four possible scenarios for the development of global aquaculture have been suggested in a thought-provoking new study.

Vietnam’s push towards organic agriculture could impact aquaculture output, creating market space for organic aquaculture.

Ireland has ambitions to become “the Silicon Valley of aquaculture”, according to Richard Donnelly, innovation and development manager at Ireland’s Seafood Development Agency (BIM).

According to a new government report, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign pledge to ban ocean net pen farming in British Columbia faces several challenges.

Following Canada’s general election in October, members of the aquaculture industry have called for an updated Aquaculture Act that will allow the sector to address climate change, rural economic development and prioriti…

An intitaitive designed to promote diversity in aquaculture is set to benefit from £50,000 in funding from the Scottish Government and industry partners, to help boost career opportunities for women in Scotland’s thrivin…

Defra has updated its guidance for the import and export of live aquatic animals in case of a no-deal Brexit.

UN panel states that increasing food production in the ocean is a key strategy in reaching the climate goal set in the Paris Agreement.

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the USDA have formed a strategic partnership to increase production of US farm-raised fish.

The first meeting of a group that aims to promote the sustainable growth of Spain’s marine aquaculture sector took place last week.

The certification would ensure consumers that CP Vietnam's fishmeal supply was created in safe and sustainable conditions.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D- Oregon) and Representative Seth Moulton (D- Massachusetts) have introduced legislation that expands disaster relief to fisheries that have been adversely affected by tariffs.

According to researchers from Dalhousie University, there is virtually no evidence to support decades-long narratives about the sustainability of finfish aquaculture in Canada.