Production systems

Over the last 11 years Mpanju Elpidius has grown his tilapia farm from scratch, to become one of Tanzania’s largest farmers – producing over a million fingerlings as well as 20 tonnes of market-sized fish every month.

As many aquaculture operators feel the economic pinch, this article suggests a number of ways in which production efficiency – and thereby economic performance – can be improved.

Stacy Ann Gray has spent over 15 years as an aquaculture extension officer at Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, where her achievements include setting up an oyster farm and the country’s first seaweed farm.

With two crops of mussels now in the water, it’s a question of keeping ones boat and buoys afloat for another six months – which isn’t always as straightforward as it sounds.

Norway’s Atlantic salmon sector published their feed composition and utilisation data from 2020, showing more novel ingredients in their formulations and greater salmon output – but as inflation and global commodity prices surge, feed companies may face diffic…

The global recession has hit emerging farmers in developing countries most harshly, according to Prof Greg Lutz, Fish Site columnist and extension specialist at Louisiana State University.

Though indoor shrimp farming has been tapped as a potential disruptor in the aquaculture space, investors have been hesitant to sign on the dotted line. But according to Aurore Gil of ADM Capital Europe, this reflects an investment stance that’s better charact…

Though many are still at the pilot stage and haven’t been proven at an industrial scale, analysis from Spheric Research suggests that indoor shrimp farming has huge potential to transform the wider industry.

Lake Volta might be the most productive aquaculture centre in Ghana, but the current model of fish farming on the lake is unsustainable, according to Dr Kofitsyo Cudjoe, a senior adviser at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute’s Aquatic Animal Health and Welfare…

After an eventful recent past – which included two years stuck in Myanmar due to Covid-19 restrictions and then spending time as a refugee in Vietnam, where his former student, Loc Tran, managed to secure him a temporary visa after the coup in Myanmar – Prof K…

Following a challenging year, shrimp farmers should not be too pessimistic about 2023 – as long as they don’t leave themselves overexposed, argues Willem van der Pijl, managing director of the Global Shrimp Forum.

The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this sometimes presents trade-offs in fish welfare.

How Latin American aquaculture operators are being impacted by rising costs and what can be done to adjust to the new normal.

Ukraine’s fish farming industry has been devastated by the Russian invasion, but farmers are also helping to feed the troops and displaced people, explains Andrey Honcharov, the CEO of Ukrainian Fish Farming Company.

Indonesia-based aquaculture specialist Retno Nuraini’s continual work on sustainable production has led her to join Deliberate Capital, an investment company which is providing financial and technical expertise to smallholder shrimp farmers.

The 50th anniversary of Cloan Hatcheries is an astonishing milestone in the trout farming sector that Dick Haldane is rightly proud of. However – unlike one of his other achievements – it hasn’t yet earned him a telegram from one of the world’s most feared dic…

Aarti Burman, founder of AB Fish Products, who hails from a remote village in West Bengal, is one of the most successful female fish farmers in the state.