Open farming systems

Lightsource bp is partnering with Taiwan’s Green Rock Energy to develop and build a 150-megawatt solar farm that is co-located with an aquaculture site.

Stephen Woods, who has been with Scottish Sea Farms for 27 years, and farm manager of Charlotte’s Bay near Oban for the past 12 of those, was named Finfish Farmer of the Year at the recent Aquaculture Awards in Aviemore.…

A continuous partnership between Kenya’s Lattice Aqua and IDH, the sustainable trade initiative, will focus on improving the productivity, profitability and sustainability of Kenya’s fish farms.

A new report from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture shows that approximately 1,200 hectares of aquaculture area has been affected by diseases since the start of 2022, a 14 percent increase on the same period in 2021.

GreenWave’s pilot seaweed subsidies programme can “prime the pump” for meaningful volumes of kelp to be grown in the US, according to Bren Smith, helping to provide livelihoods and ecosystem services in equal measure.

Oman’s fisheries ministry has signed agreements with the wholly government-owned Blue Waters LLC to begin progress on two finfish aquaculture projects worth over OR 13.4 million ($34.8 million).

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.

Shellfish and finfish businesses in Shetland are set to benefit from a "game changing" new technology that is designed to inform optimal and sustainable growth in the aquaculture sector.

Farming a variety of Indian major carp species in the wetlands of Bihar State is proving to be a profitable alternative to agriculture for many former terrestrial farmers.

In the latest investment round, Netherlands-based Seaweed Company is taking a huge step in further scaling its operations and positive environmental impacts, while gaining board buy-in from the Colruyt Group.

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.

A rice and catfish integrated aquaculture project in Northeastern Nigeria has given local livelihoods and food security a boost, according to researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Ibadan.

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.

Recent Nofima research in the CtrlAQUA Intake project shows that there is a lot of gain from adapting the dose to the pathogen one is dealing with.

NOAA’s Sea Grant will fund six new research initiatives on aquaculture, seafood diets, coastal ecosystems and emerging contaminants in New Hampshire.

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).

Despite only representing about 1 percent of global seaweed cultivation volumes, green macroalgae (Chlorophyta) could play a decisive role in the commercial seaweed sector as it expands and diversifies.

New analysis suggests that pond aquaculture could be the tilapia industry’s best way to profitably intensify production – and that, other than for a few notable exceptions, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) will re…

Pond-based tilapia farmers could benefit from adopting a novel method for intensifying the production of carp and other species that has recently been successful in Eastern Europe.