Hatcheries

Yit Tung – who farms mud crabs, shrimp and tilapia in Malaysia – has no regrets about swapping a steady job as an engineer in the oil and gas sector for starting up his own aquaculture venture, RAS Aquaculture.

Bolivia and Peru have launched a lab to breed endangered fish native to the Lake Titicaca basin.

Plans to develop a $45 million mussel hatchery in New Zealand are gaining momentum, thanks to a collaborative training project that's taking place between Cawthron Institute researchers and Te-Whānau-ā-Apanui.

An innovative container design has shown promising results for use in international air freight of live fish.

Nueva Pescanova Group has announced that it has fully digitalised its shrimp hatcheries in Ecuador and Nicaragua with aquaManager's IoT infrastructure.

Dagón – Israel’s pioneering hatchery and leading fish farmer – offers a tantalising glimpse of how aquaculture in the MENA region is evolving and of the emerging species that have the greatest commercial potential.

Shrimp that have been bred for their resistance to disease and ability to thrive despite environmental challenges should be valued as highly – if not more highly – than those bred for their growth rates in many parts of …

27-year-old Shady Hamdy owns and operates the Ibn Al-Nafis tilapia hatchery – alongside Dr Tamer Bastweesy – in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt.

A new design of container that aims to significantly improve lobster survival in hatcheries is currently under development by Marine-i and the National Lobster Hatchery.

Mercedes Wanguemert, one of Europe’s foremost sea cucumber experts, explains her role in the formation of the continent’s fledgling sea cucumber aquaculture sector and why she believes that the echinoderms have huge unta…

Springtide Seaweed is due to receive $649,651 to develop innovative nori and dulse seaweed cultivation systems, enabling these high-value crops to be farmed in the US and globally.

The three Fernandez Muniz brothers are pioneering a new form of shellfish farming on Galicia’s Ria de Arousa – ongrowing clams in lantern nets in order to improve the fortunes of the thousands of artisanal shellfish prod…

New food safety requirements, worker safety standards and water quality monitoring procedures have been included in the final draft of the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) Hatchery Standard Issue 2.0.

India’s shrimp farmers can have improved access to SPF broodstock after Hendrix Genetics and Spathagiri Hatcheries form Kona Bay India PVT ltd and agree to establish a broodstock multiplication centre.

WorldFish has signed an agreement with Premium Aquaculture Limited to transfer genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT) fry to Nigeria.

Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk Fisheries Company recently hatched its first batch of native sobaity bream larvae – a breakthrough that could pave the way to diversifying the Middle East’s burgeoning aquaculture sector.

The government of New Zealand has announced plans to invest in a mussel spat hatchery in the Bay of Plenty.

There are notable variations in the feed uptake and feeding ability of sea bream larvae when they’re raised in different environmental conditions – so which ones are optimal?

Although native to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America, red drum are now farmed across a wide geographical range – with some producers proving more enduringly successful than others.

Six years after taking up aquaculture Yatendra Kashyap is one of the leading fish farmers in Bihar, with an annual production of around 65 tonnes of carp, generating a turnover of around 9 million rupees (US $120,411).