Cold water

A young biologist has achieved nothing short of a miracle: singlehandedly building the only RAS farm for Arctic char in the Netherlands. Focusing on short supply chains and a strong product story, he makes a decent living from his Dutch char as well.

In a sector where no two farms look alike, Wittaya’s modelling tools promise a common language for benchmarking performance, from shrimp ponds to salmon cages.

George Birch, founder of Oyster Heaven, explains his novel approach to oyster reef restoration. 

The production of natural algal astaxanthin – at a scale and price that make it an affordable aquafeed ingredient – is tantalisingly close, according to Claude Kaplan, CEO of Kuehnle Agro Systems (KAS)*. 

A new paper details how molecular tools such as CRISPR could be effectively used to increase the resistance of Atlantic salmon to sea lice – improving fish welfare and reducing costs for the salmon farming sector. 

A number of aquaculture entrepreneurs took part in the recent One Ocean Expedition, sparking real aquaculture collaborations and early seaweed initiatives in Baja California Sur.

BarAlgae, a producer of microalgal hatchery feeds for shrimp, fish and shellfish, aims to expand globally by setting up microalgae facilities in major aquaculture hubs.

A Norwegian-led company is convinced it can help Namibia become a salmon producer of international significance – thanks to the cool waters of the Benguela Current, a stable and supportive government and the comparatively low costs of establishing a farming bu…

Seawan Gelhbach, founder of the Simpson Bay Oyster Company, sees bivalve farming as a way of cultivating seafood, building a community and carving a sustainable living out of the waters of Prince William Sound.

After two decades in aquaculture Josef Melchner, CEO and co-founder of GoSmart, aims to bring clear, affordable data-driven insights to those parts of the industry that are still largely operating on estimation and intuition.

The early life stages of marine finfish are notoriously tricky to replicate in hatcheries but, according to Planktonic, replacing Artemia and rotifers with the nauplii of one of the world’s most abundant crustaceans can help.