Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS)

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.

The aquaculture industry could be progressing towards commercial tripletail production after wild-caught specimens were able to spawn and larvae grew to maturity in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).

Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) is proving its worth in Sungo Bay in China, with numerous studies to support its environmental and economic benefits.

Benchmark Genetics is one of the main suppliers of salmon ova for land-based production facilities – both RAS and flow-through – around the world. This has given them a unique insight into how the sector is developing, as members of their team explain to The F…

Columbi Salmon aims to harvest 12,000 tonnes of salmon and 4,000 tonnes of salad leaves a year by 2025, at a site in the Belgian port of Ostend. Kolbjørn Giskeødegård, CFO of the startup, explains their unique production system, why he thinks the time is right…

Kana Banno, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) talks about her transition from aquaculture in Japan, to that of Norway and why fish behaviour and welfare are so important in salmon farming.

In a follow-up to his initial piece on the subject of RAS, Andrew Leingang covers key elements including species selection, staffing and fish health.

How a RAS producing brook trout in a remote part of Maine is helping to regenerate a species and a community.