Production systems

Victory Farms might have achieved a great deal in their first seven years, but – as company CEO, Joseph Rehmann, explains in the second part of the article – fresh challenges and opportunities await.

Next Tuna, a startup that’s raising Atlantic bluefin tuna in closed aquaculture systems, has signed a feed cooperation agreement with Skretting that hopes to bring the two firms closer to sustainable land-based tuna prod…

A new report by Rabobank, published this week, warns that the growth of Norway’s salmon farming sector is extremely vulnerable to the resource rent tax proposed by the government.

Reaching 10,000 tonnes of tilapia production within eight years of being founded is no mean feat – especially in a poverty-stricken country with an extremely limited aquaculture ecosystem – but it’s only the tip of the i…

Angela Odero, CEO and co-founder of Rio Fish Limited, is on a mission to end the sex-for-fish trade in Kenya, (whereby women traders are sexually exploited by predatory fishermen) - through market linkages so that women …

Twenty-three leading seaweed experts have been confirmed as speakers at the inaugural online edition of “Seagriculture Asia-Pacific 2023”, which will take place on 8 and 9 February.

Norwegian salmon farmers have enjoyed a decade of unprecedented profitability, but plans to introduce a 40 percent resource rent tax on the sector - combined with the emergence of new systems for growing salmon in differ…

Pat Reynolds, one of the world’s preeminent lumpfish researchers, believes that – despite a number of welfare issues and a slight dip in their popularity – the species merits a prominent place in the list of ways to cont…

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is using funding from NOAA to build the first modern clam garden in the US, reviving a 3,500-year-old indigenous aquaculture tradition in Washington state.

The Aquaculture Research Station in Tromsø opened one of the world’s most advanced research facilities for onshore fish farming on 11 January – bringing world-leading resources to teaching, education and research for the…

A recent study explored the intestinal microbiota of Atlantic salmon during the seawater transfer process and found that gradually exposing the fish to changes in salinity led to a greater diversity in their intestinal b…

Over the last 11 years Mpanju Elpidius has grown his tilapia farm from scratch, to become one of Tanzania’s largest farmers – producing over a million fingerlings as well as 20 tonnes of market-sized fish every month.

The NewTechAqua Project is looking for startups, entrepreneurs, researchers and tech centres around the world for to develop innovative solutions in aquaculture and take part in its award challenge.

Halifax-based startup ReelData AI has closed an $8 million series-A funding round and plans to use the capital to bring its data and automation offering to more land-based aquaculture ventures.

As many aquaculture operators feel the economic pinch, this article suggests a number of ways in which production efficiency – and thereby economic performance – can be improved.

NaturalShrimp, which has developed a unique recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), is set to expand production after merging with New York-based Yotta Acquisition Corp.

Stacy Ann Gray has spent over 15 years as an aquaculture extension officer at Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, where her achievements include setting up an oyster farm and the country’s first seaweed farm…

Salmon Evolution reports “very strong results” for the final quarter of 2022 – during which it harvested the final salmon from the company's first cohort.

A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has re-mapped the country’s coastal aquaculture area and found that it has decreased substantially from 2016 as more areas are reverting to natural wetlands.

Data and analysis from the FAO’s 2022 Biannual food outlook shows that global fisheries and aquaculture production is expected to increase by 1.2 percent in 2022 despite pressures from inflation and a slowing global econ…