After 12 months in which a number of the West’s flagship indoor shrimp farms have been forced to shut down, two of the more promising remaining companies explain how they have not only survived the turmoil, but also have plans to expand.
In Normandy, oysters reign supreme, but a new land-based ulva producer, Magma Seaweed, hopes to disrupt the tides with a novel two-pronged farming approach.
By combining ocean intelligence with training and buy-back schemes, MarinElixirs is de-risking cultivation, integrating the value chain and turning fresh seaweed into higher-value biostimulants within hours of harvesting.
Fairouz Abbassi is the hatchery manager at Aquaculture Tunisienne, the largest sea bass and sea bream hatchery in North Africa, with an annual production of up to 30 million juveniles.
On a small, remote atoll in French Polynesia – surrounded by thousands of kilometers of open ocean – Kamoka Pearl is using innovative techniques to farm oysters in harmony with the reef.
Spanning nearly all the continents, the International Biology and Macroalgae Center (IBMC) hopes to use knowledge sharing between key seaweed producers to supercharge this ocean crop and make it a viable commodity on the global market.
China has an ambitious vision to enhance domestic food security by developing gargantuan offshore farming units and widespread, affordable recirculation systems – can the West learn some valuable lessons?
French startup Agriloops has recently launched its first commercial-scale saline aquaponics facility, in a bid to produce environmentally responsible shrimp and vegetables for the local market.
Shaurya Agarwal, co-founder of Blue Wave Aquaculture, aims to not only bring quality RAS-produced rainbow trout to discerning Indian consumers, but also provide a model to catalyse a new industry in his homeland.
Scotland’s Firth of Forth Lobster Hatchery is set to start producing native oysters too, following its acquisition by Balanced Horizon - a charity that has given it a new name and a new lease of life.
Icelandic startup Ration combines artificial intelligence and computer vision to bring greater precision and automation to both ova counting and land-based salmon feeding regimes.
Land-based seaweed cultivation is widely regarded as being too expensive in Europe, but by reducing costs and capitalising on growing demand from food companies Seaweedland’s founder is determined to prove it can be done at scale in The Netherlands.
Mohamed Elshenawy, project manager at Gulf Union, has dramatically increased the farm’s tilapia output – transforming it into one of the leading aquaculture operations in Saudi Arabia.
Arapaima have long been touted as a promising genus of fish for farming, but there are still some major research hurdles to be cleared before they can be produced efficiently enough to be economically viable.
Richard Knuckey is convinced that giant grouper is one of the premium finfish species best suited to RAS production in the West – the question now is whether someone is able to make this potential pay.
Dr Manoj Sharma is not only the pioneer of shrimp farming in Gujarat is but also credited with creating livelihoods for thousands of farmers who had been struggling to grow crops in the state’s salinised land.
