Production systems

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 for…

The organisers of a workshop on agroecology hope that will encourage more countries to support “the development of agroecological aquaculture and integrated agriculture-aquaculture (IAA)”.

A trial involving the introduction of loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) into terraced fields previously used solely for rice production has lifted more than 10,000 people out of poverty in two years.…

Swansea University is currently considering offers in the region of £50,000 for an entire a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).

Massachusetts-based Australis Aquaculture has sold its US barramundi business in to Great Falls Aquaculture in order to concentrate on “large-scale ocean farming” of the species in Southeast Asia.

Portions of fish that have been produced in bioreactors are going to be available in restaurants by 2019 thanks to a project that should fundamentally challenge the way that we think about fish produc…

Plans to grow two million salmon per cycle in a revolutionary 385-metre offshore structure are gaining ground.

Many fish and shrimp farmers who are interested in using Halamid, for protection of their valuable crop, ask how this will interfere with the probiotics they use, directly dosed into a pond/tank or so…

Joana Amaral would like to use her 20+ years of experience in marine hatcheries to help encourage the complete replacement of live feed for larval finfish, a goal that she’s currently working on with …

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are already helping to revolutionise the way fish, in particular salmon, are farmed.

A fundamental shift in the aquaculture industry is required if we are to sustainably feed the growing global population, according to Árni Mathiesen, Assistant Director-General, FAO Fisheries and Aqua…

A special session on the use of agroecology in aquaculture is being organised by CIRAD and the FAO as part of the Aqua2018 congress.

One of the world’s largest aquaponics facilities has attained Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification.

During his 45 years at Ardtoe Marine Laboratory Jon Sherwood – one of the unsung heroes of Scottish aquaculture – has been quietly involved in all manner of pioneering fish-farming projects

Atsuko Nozaki has been growing and selling oysters in Japan's Okayama Prefecture for 46 years and is now the face of the family aquaculture business.

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. …

Dr Carly Daniels, research and development manager at the National Lobster Hatchery in Cornwall, hopes that her pioneering lobster growing trial will not only kick-start a viable lobster aquaculture …

Myanmar could produce as much shrimp as Vietnam and Thailand according to one of aquaculture’s most eminent academics.

BioMar has opened a state-of-the-art marine fish larval trial unit for both larval rearing and the production of live feed.

Lynne Frame, freshwater specialist at Scottish Sea Farms, recounts an action-packed introduction to the aquaculture industry that has seen her grow mussels in New Zealand, produce smolt in the Arctic …