Open farming systems

Mohamed Adel, chairman and managing director of the Suez Canal Aquaculture Company, offers an insight into one of the most ambitious aquaculture projects ever to have been constructed in Africa.

A mini guide has been launched to help farmers establish optimal stocking densities in aquaculture in order to ensure good fish welfare.

While the introduction of invasive non-native species such as Nile perch and water hyacinth have had a catastrophic impact on the biodiversity of Lake Victoria, a growing number of initiatives to control them may help to limit the damage and create new jobs.

Northern India’s landlocked shrimp sector presents huge opportunities for entrepreneurs, according to Amanleen Singh, who moved to rural Punjab in 2017 to set up his own shrimp farm after a career that included working in travel, real estate and the stock mark…

Seaweed aquaculture and kelp forest restoration are getting a tentative nod as a blue carbon strategy – but the way policymakers structure carbon credits and offsets may make its benefits theoretical instead of bankable.

Collectively managed ”sea allotments”, which produce mussels for consumption by local communities, are a growing trend in Denmark, as more people bid to produce environmentally sustainable – and delicious – local seafood.

Ananda Malakar, from the Indian state of Odisha, was inspired to start farming Asian catfish after watching a video on a social media platform last June.

Siti Asiyah, a veteran in the Indonesian shrimp industry, runs a shrimp hatchery and grow-out farm in Jepara, Central Java, which is both a commercial venture and a place for the next generation of aquaculture professionals to flourish.

"Kelp won't help," says University of Tasmania researcher John Barry Gallagher in an article in The Conversation on kelp's status as a carbon buster.

Although Tunisia has a relatively undeveloped aquaculture sector, it has huge potential – with 1,350 kilometres of Mediterranean coastline, a maritime domain of over 80,000 square kilometres and seven lagoons covering 100,000 hectares.

Batakrushna Sahoo, who hails from Odisha state in Eastern India, is one of the region’s most revered farmers, having played an instrumental role in fish production for over three decades.

Azellia Alma Shafira, co-founder and CEO of Banoo Indonesia, talks about her journey to bring affordable technology to boost small-scale fish farming productivity and her vision to help build a more inclusive aquaculture industry.

Pacific Ocean Culture, which specialises in giant freshwater prawns and tilapia farming, is already the biggest aquaculture player in the South Pacific and now aims to triple production to support Fijian government goals.

There’s plenty of room for improvement in both shrimp feeds and genetics according to Ronnie Tan, Johan Brouwer and Willem van der Pijl.

32-year-old Kenechukwu Anthony Nwobodo set up and runs a catfish farming company, DieuMerci , in Lagos, Nigeria.