Hatcheries

The funders of $5 million pilot kelp farming project in the Hauraki Gulf have attributed their vision to the success of GrennWave in the US.

Barramundi Group - which has operations in Singapore, Austrlai and Brunei - is on track to more than triple its production and harvest 7,000 tonnes of fish a year by 2026, according to today’s Q3 business update.

Hatch and Conservation International (CI) have put 10 female-led aquaculture businesses through their paces as part of their first-ever Women in Aquaculture Innovation Studio programme.

Oceano Fresco hopes that its €6.1 million series B funding will bring it closer to producing European clam species at scale.

26-year-old Wilfred Agbi runs Weija Farms, a catfish hatchery and an “aquaculture evangelism” agency in Ghana that aims to train up young people who are looking to establish their own fish farms.

Part I of this series covered the ornamental aquaculture industry and how to get a successful business started. This second instalment offers insights into the types of businesses and discusses options for the varieties …

AquaBounty has calculated that the development of its planned 10,000-tonne capacity salmon farm in Pioneer, Ohio, is likely to cost up to $320 million.

Plans to produce 15,000 tonnes of seriola (Seriola dumerili) six miles off the Spanish coast have recently been unveiled.

Orkney Shellfish Hatchery has successfully secured funding for four new aquaculture graduate positions, after winning a Scottish educational grant, courtesy of the Highlands and Islands Enterprises’ Graduate Support Prog…

Yarangjang Imchen claims to be the first ornamental fish and shellfish farmer in the landlocked state of Nagaland in northeast India, operating 40 tanks in his backyard.

Hatchery operators can reduce live rotifer diets by at least 50 percent by adopting an innovating feed protocol and diet developed by researchers at INVE.

“Rabbitfish have amazing potential for small-scale sustainable aquaculture across the tropics: they are easy to grow have high local demand and they are herbivorous and feed on a variety of freely-available feeds.”

Cod farming firm Norcod and fry producer Havlandet Marin Yngel have announced a joint venture to develop a new 24 million capacity cod hatchery.

Claudia Kerber, who co-founder Redemar with her husband, has been pioneering the production of marine fish, including dusky grouper, in Brazil for nearly 20 years.

Plans to farm whitebait in New Zealand have been backed by $2 million in funding from the country’s Provincial Development Unit (PDU).

Kvarøy Fiskeoppdrett has announced plans to invest NOK 125 million ($16 million) in its smolt facility, in a bid to nearly double production, while simultaneously reducing its overall energy consumption by up to 50 perce…

Ching Fui Fui is an associate professor at the University Malaysia in Sabah. She runs the university fish hatchery and works at the Borneo Marine Research institute, a centre of excellence working on conservation and sus…

A plan to build a new hatchery capable of producing milkfish, mangrove crabs, tilapia and tiger prawns has been announced in the Philippines this week.

After taking a job at Mowi because it was close to home, Fern quickly decided to make a career in aquaculture and hopes to take on a managerial role.

Dr Megan Davis of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has spent over four decades growing queen conch, a species in steady decline. Her work holds promise as a way of safeguarding the species through community-based soluti…