A recent study suggests that educating consumers about the ecosystem services provided by farmed seaweed will make them willing to pay more for seaweed-based products.
As the SEAfood Act and the AQUAA Act are being debated in Congress, Emily De Sousa joined two of America’s leading seafood chefs – Barton Seaver and Steve Phelps – on a tour of some of the world’s most extreme offshore fish farms, to find out for themselves ab…
Josh Goldman, founder and CEO of Australis, believes that the barramundi farming sector is nearing critical mass and the species is set to become a seafood staple in a range of countries.
Organic Garden aims to set up a network of land-based farms that synergistically and sustainably produce fish, vegetables, insects, algae and mushrooms, which are then sold directly to canteens across Germany, as Johannes Blei, chief farm and financial officer…
Ireland’s Pure Ocean Algae has finished building a 600 m² seaweed hatchery building on the Beara peninsula, hoping to address the industry’s biomass bottleneck and set it on the path to success.
Pacu – which are also called tambaqui, pirapitinga, cachama, morocoto, or gamitana – are among the fish with the greatest potential to challenge the dominance of carps and tilapias in tropical freshwater aquaculture, especially if geneticists succeed in elimin…
Alternative proteins are often cited as being better – environmentally, ethically and nutritionally – than farmed seafoods, but the reality is much more complex and far less clear-cut than some alt-protein evangelists realise.
After studying marine biology and aquaculture in university and learning the ropes at her own shrimp farm in Ecuador, Janeth Chavez Zambrano is turning her hand to indoor shrimp farming with SwissShrimp.
The production of insects for aquafeeds is only going to gain momentum in the coming years, although there are still a number of challenges – in particular relating to regulations regarding the feedstocks for fly larvae – to overcome.
For decades China has been the world’s largest exporter of seafood but, in the space of 12 months – following a 30 percent rise in imports – it has become a net importer, heralding a genuinely pivotal moment in the seafood sphere.
