Technology & equipment

Poseidon Ocean Systems, ThisFish and Industrial Plankton receive honours at Aquaculture Innovation Awards in British Columbia.

A consortium of research partners in Scotland has been awarded a £250,000 funding package to revolutionise the collection, interpretation, and use of data on fish farms, with the development of a new digital platform.

The camera system used to survey the seabed beneath structures such as net pen fish farms, could be seriously underestimating disturbances to ecosystems, according to new research.

When it comes to solving oyster-farming pain-points, Australia and New Zealand punch well above their weight, as an emerging range of innovative aquaculture systems demonstrates.

The founder and CEO of XpertSea talks about building a startup, establishing a rapport with shrimp farmers... and a close encounter with pirates.

Trout farmers are being offered an "affordable one-stop genetic broodstock health check", following the launch of a new service from Xelect.

Industry veteran Alex Harvey has been managing Mowi's Loch Hourn farm for 22 years and hopes that aquaculture will continue to make positive contributions to communities in the Scottish Highlands.

A group of researchers in the Philippines is looking to develop and commercialise an app that helps farmers differentiate between three very closely connected crab species – a goal that could save the crab ranching secto…

Dynaspace, a Norwegian startup that uses satellite imagery to assess the performance of aquaculture operations, has recently secured a NOK 4.3 million seed funding round.

Trials of a specialist lighting system have led to a 10 percent increase in tilapia growth rates and a 10 percent reduction in their feed conversion ratio (FCR), according to the results of a new study.

A novel offshore fish farming system has taken a step towards commercialisation, following the completion of a successful feasibility study.

A clutch of new aquaculture initiatives – largely relating to seaweeds, bivalves and RAS finfish production – are putting Dorset on the aquaculture map, according to Martin Sutcliffe, aquaculture and fisheries developmen…

An innovative aquaculture structure, called the shellfish tower, offers a promising means to farm shellfish and other species in exposed offshore locations, according to the results of a recent trial.

New research suggests that using lumpfish or ballan wrasse to combat sea lice in offshore fish farms isn’t workable – the strong currents and extreme weather conditions leave them at risk of exhaustion and injury.

Plans to install the world's largest closed-containment fish farm are gaining pace, following a deal between American Aquafarms and Blue Ocean Technologies.

The effective use of data has the ability to transform fish health in the aquaculture industry, according to the founders of Manolin*.

A new water sensor that has been designed to measure a range of water quality and fish welfare parameters in aquaculture installations has been launched by a Canadian seafood tech company, Sedna Technologies.

Starfish, an innovative closed-containment salmon farming system, has now been installed in a Norwegian fjord and is due to be stocked later in the year.

One of the most isolated fish farms in the Mediterranean has eliminated poaching incidents following a major upgrade to its security systems.

Software that’s now capable of predicting the early onset of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) as well as pancreas disease (PD) has just been launched by Manolin.