Hatcheries

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…

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.

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.

Following a challenging year, shrimp farmers should not be too pessimistic about 2023 – as long as they don’t leave themselves overexposed, argues Willem van der Pijl, managing director of the Global Shrimp Forum.

How Latin American aquaculture operators are being impacted by rising costs and what can be done to adjust to the new normal.

Limited access to seawater has been a pressing challenge for producers of Florida pompano – but a recent trial has found that pompano larvae can thrive in varying salinities, giving commercial farms a way to reduce produ…

Ukraine’s fish farming industry has been devastated by the Russian invasion, but farmers are also helping to feed the troops and displaced people, explains Andrey Honcharov, the CEO of Ukrainian Fish Farming Company.

The 50th anniversary of Cloan Hatcheries is an astonishing milestone in the trout farming sector that Dick Haldane is rightly proud of. However – unlike one of his other achievements – it hasn’t yet earned him a telegram…

The past few months have been gruelling for a number of tilapia farmers on the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria, with the deaths of hundreds of millions of fish.

Food security experts have finalised a 10-year strategy for the inclusive growth of Zimbabwe’s tilapia industry.

The US Sea Grant programme is devoting additional funds towards kampachi and shrimp breeding and genetics in Hawai’i as part of efforts to strengthen US aquaculture.

Benjamin Orishaba, a 28-year-old Ugandan, is currently managing three tilapia hatcheries for a government fish farming project in Cote D’Ivoire and also runs his own aquaculture consultancy company.

Basel Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Octopus, which claims to be the, “first scientific aquaculture initiative in Egypt and the Arab region that is managed by youth and covers production, disease control and environment…

Dubai’s Aqua Bridge Group has signed an agreement with the Maldives Ministry of Fisheries, in collaboration with the World Bank, to develop the Maldives' aquaculture sector.

A study led by Griffith University in Australia has found that tropical oyster reefs have a far greater diversity of reef-building oyster species than those in temperate waters.

Oceanfarmr*, the new name for SmartOysters, is looking to apply its technology across the wider aquaculture sector – initially targeting mussel and seaweed producers – and has also launched a new finance tool for farmers…

EUMOFA is focusing on the production, trade and consumption of trout and salmon roe as Japan tops the tables for roe imports in 2021.

Stolt Sea Farm is already one of the leading flatfish farming companies in the West – producing over 7,000 tonnes of turbot and sole in sustainable land-based facilities – and it has ambitious plans to expand.

Gishanda Fish Farm, a new development initiative between Akagera National Park, FoodTechAfrica and a consortium of Dutch companies, begins operations on 18 October.

StriperHub, a collaborative project to support the development of a sustainable striped bass aquaculture industry in the United States, has recently been awarded $1.4 million from NOAA Sea Grant.