Mozambique

A “new generation seaweed accelerator” has been launched this week, in a bid to increase organic seaweed aquaculture.

Mozambican tilapia producer Chicoa Fish Farm has secured $1.5 million in funding from Goodwell Investments.

A researcher who has demonstatred that eyestalk ablation isn’t necessary in shrimp aquaculture has won this year’s Global Aquaculture Innovation Award.

Mozambique’s fishery authorities say they are on high alert for a potential outbreak of red spot disease after a recent outbreak in neighbouring Malawi.

One of Mozambique’s pioneering tilapia farmers has been thrown a lifeline after his entire stock was wiped out by a tropical cyclone.

MOZAMBIQUE - The Nordic Development Fund (NDF), a joint development finance institution of the five Nordic countries, has approved a 5.0 million grant for aquaculture and climate change in Mozambique.

MOZAMBIQUE - The Mozambique Minister of Fisheries, Mr Vctor Manuel Borges, and the Food and Agriculture Organizations Assistant Director-General for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mr rni Mathiesen, have signed a Host Agreeme…

MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambican company Empresa Moambicana de Atum (EMATUM), set up by the government for tuna fishing, is due to start operating this year.

MOZAMBIQUE - Deep Water Produce (DWP) Lda, is a Mozambican company within the EmVest group of companies developing a large, cage based, tilapia aquaculture project at Lake Cahora Bassa in Tete Province, Mozambique.

MOZAMBIQUE - The Primeiras and Segundas have been approved as a marine protected area in Mozambique making this diverse ten-island archipelago Africas largest coastal marine reserve.

MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambique may this year produce around 200,000 tons of a variety of fish as compared to production of 120,000 tons in 2010, Mozambiques Fisheries Minister said in Maputo during a visit to the Mozambican cap…

MOZAMBIQUE - Mozambiques Institute for Fishing Research is studying the causes of a drop in shrimp hauls in the country, said the deputy director of the National Directorate for Fishing Economy and Policy of the Fishing …

MOZAMBIQUE - Aquapesca, an aquaculture company based in the district of Inhassunge, in the central province of Zambzia, has indefinitely suspended prawn production following an outbreak of White Spot Syndrome (WSS) in th…

MOZAMBIQUE - White spot disease has been reported at a prawn farm.

MOZAMBIQUE - One company has announced it exported 600 tonnes of farmed tiger prawns to Europe last year.

MOZAMBIQUE - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Mozambique have agreed to work together to boost marine life protection and develop joint mechanisms to better investigate and monitor fisheries of the country with a coastl…

MOZAMBIQUE - The authorities in Mozambican are trying to break into the US market to sell shrimp following the decline of the market in the European Union.

MOZAMBIQUE France plans to donate 1.5 million euros to Mozambique to support the shrimp farming sector, under the terms of a funding convention signed by the Bank of Mozambique and the French Development Agency, Mozambic…

MOZAMBIQUE - The Mozambique fisheries sector saw production fell short of forecast figures by nearly a third.

MOZAMBIQUE - The Mozambique government is to increase aquaculture production in a bid to offset imports of 54,000 tonnes of fish each year.