Species development

Researchers have observed idoteas – small crustaceans that swim among the red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis – dispersing male algae gametes to other seaweeds, the way bees pollinate plants on dry land.

When I was contemplating a topic for this month’s article, I was reminded of a question my daughter asked me several years ago: “Can we feed our dogs a vegetarian diet?”

Cities of the future may be built with algae-grown limestone – allowing cement production to become carbon neutral and in some cases, carbon negative.

The UK Environment Agency has developed a new tool to help increase the oyster population around the English coast as it marks World Oceans Day.

Researchers at SEAFDEC/AQD in the Philippines are highlighting the potential of slipper lobsters as a sustainable and budget-friendly aquaculture offering.

The University of Louisiana in Lafayette is taking the lead on a three-year, $14 million research initiative that will develop oyster broodstock that are more resilient in low-salinity environments.

Nueva Pescanova’s plans for starting the world’s first commercial octopus farm may have caused an uproar in some quarters of the mainstream media, but aquaculture of the animals could be the best hope for sustaining wild…

Scientists from the University of Missouri are focusing their efforts on diatoms, hoping to learn how to maximise the full environmental benefits of the green algae.

Barely a day goes by without one media outlet or another waxing lyrical over the numerous benefits of seaweeds, and how they are going to save the planet. Some of it may be hype, but there is also much to be said for thi…

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.

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.

Researchers from James Cook University have mapped the complete genome for Australian tiger prawns, potentially unlocking disease resistance and productivity gains for the aquaculture sector.

A scientific breakthrough at a research centre in the Philippines might finally be the long-term solution to the perennial shortage of round scad (Decapterus spp), known locally as the “poor man’s fish”.

Perhaps one of the least aquatic forms of aquaculture involves the farming of crocodiles, alligators and caimans. These animals are referred to as semi-aquatic, and their husbandry is in some ways more similar to livesto…

Scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands are developing an algae bioreactor on the island of Bonaire.

Researchers from across the globe presented their latest research during the Europe Aquaculture Society (EAS) congress in Madeira, Spain earlier this year. Here’s a look at some of the latest developments in aquaculture …

A group of researchers working off Panama’s Caribbean coast are re-building the local tropical sea cucumber population.

Researchers in Ghana believe that there’s now scope to fulfil the potential of the African bony tongue – commonly referred to as “super cu” in Ghana – as a key aquaculture species.

Petros Thomas, who’s Greek and been in the marine aquaculture sector for 32 years, is currently working as assistant general manager and production operation manager for the Tabuk Fisheries Company in Saudi Arabia.

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).