Hatcheries

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).

A scientific breakthrough at a research centre in the Philippines might finally be the long-term solution to the perennial shortage of round scad (Decapterus spp), known locally as the “poor man’s fish”.

Results of a new study by researchers at Nofima suggest that peracetic acid can safely be used as a water disinfectant in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) that contain salmon parr.

To help make the Philippines more food secure, the country’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is expanding fish hatchery capacity and targeting higher production volumes.

A research project from Cornell University has found that shellfish broodstock can be kept alive at low temperatures and used in future seedings – significantly cutting waste and making hatcheries more efficient.

A new project to establish the best practices for the production of large salmon smolts and to assess how these large smolt perform at sea has just been launched by Nofima.

Murray Cod Australia, the pioneering producer of Maccullochella peelii, has announced ambitious plans to expand its farming operations.

Aquaculture trainees Emily Underhill, Derek Ferguson and Emmanuelle Rey have been short-listed for Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS).

Senator Cynthia Villar is pushing for legislation to greenlight fish hatcheries to bolster the Philippine’s fish supplies.

Kenya-based insect farmer, aquaculture consultant and entrepreneur Proscovia Alando aims to establish the largest fish farming operation in East Africa, in a bid to improve prospects of the region’s women and youth in pa…

A group of researchers working off Panama’s Caribbean coast are re-building the local tropical sea cucumber population.

William Dar, Agriculture Secretary for the Philippines, has led the inauguration of new multi-species hatchery and broodstock facilities in Iloilo.