Technology & equipment

Victory Farms might have achieved a great deal in their first seven years, but – as company CEO, Joseph Rehmann, explains in the second part of the article – fresh challenges and opportunities await.

Researchers are studying a cichlid sensory organ to understand cues for collective behaviour and plan to use their insights to improve the navigational skills of underwater robots.

HebNet, a community interest company that delivers superfast broadband to many of Scotland’s most remote communities, has secured funding from salmon producers to support further improvements in connectivity.

CIHEAM Zaragoza, together with the NewTechAqua project, is organising an in-depth course for 30 participants on fish nutrition and health from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Spain.

Angela Odero, CEO and co-founder of Rio Fish Limited, is on a mission to end the sex-for-fish trade in Kenya, (whereby women traders are sexually exploited by predatory fishermen) - through market linkages so that women …

Twenty-three leading seaweed experts have been confirmed as speakers at the inaugural online edition of “Seagriculture Asia-Pacific 2023”, which will take place on 8 and 9 February.

A research project has recently been launched to investigate how plastics from the aquaculture and fisheries sectors can be recycled and made into new products.

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.

Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University (RWU) will host the first ever Blue Economy Investment Summit on 24 January, an event that promises to highlight the emerging developments and future trends in blue tech investmen…

Halifax-based startup ReelData AI has closed an $8 million series-A funding round and plans to use the capital to bring its data and automation offering to more land-based aquaculture ventures.

One of the world’s largest aquaculture wellboats – the 109-metre Bakkafossur – was added to the Bakkafrost Faroe Islands fleet this weekend.

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.

A grant of nearly $800,000 from the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) program, will allow researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) to assess the extent of aquaculture operations in Bangladesh, India, Myanma…

A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has re-mapped the country’s coastal aquaculture area and found that it has decreased substantially from 2016 as more areas are reverting to natural wetlands.

Peru’s Nemo Corporation and the Universidad Nacional del Santa (UNS) have unveiled an innovative solar raft for scallop farming.

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.

The leading Norwegian salmon firm has developed a fast and effective way to measure the EPA and DHA fatty acid levels in salmon fillets.

Jim Treasurer, co-editor of a new comprehensive publication on sea lice, looks back on over three decades of working to combat aquaculture’s best known and most costly ectoparasites.

Artificial intelligence systems that will help to prevent salmon escaping from farms in even the roughest sea conditions are currently being developed by SINTEF, in collaboration with the research centre SFI Exposed.

Engineers and artists in Denmark are working together to create an artificial reef from newly developed concrete that can host more life in the sea.