Socio-economics

Despite its impressive growth rate and resistance to disease, the GIFT strain of tilapia is yet to fulfil its true potential in Odisha, according to several key players in the Indian state’s aquaculture sector.

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.

The organisers of September’s inaugural Global Shrimp Forum (GSF) hope the event will help to solve some of the shrimp industry’s most pressing issues while contributing to increased food security, securing livelihoods and reducing environmental degradation.

Kenya’s aquaculture sector must grow to improve the country’s food security. This article looks into the pros and cons of cage versus pond farming, with insights from fish farmers in western and central regions, and provides recommendations for ways to help th…

Pauline Nakyewa runs her family’s farm in rural Uganda while working as an aquaculture professional to help rural fish farmers and poor communities.

Aquaculture’s technology spotlight tends to focus on offshore cages, satellites, AI sensors and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for major finfish species – but this narrative overlooks aquatech’s ability to revolutionise small-scale production and safe…

Farming in flow-through concrete ponds known as jhora, which is practised in the hills of West Bengal, is not only helping locals to get healthy diet of food but has been also supplementing their families’ incomes.

The head of a Ukrainian company that specialises in the design and implementation of RAS facilities is determined to bring his team out of Russia to find work in Europe.

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.

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.