Despite a challenging year for the majority of the world’s shrimp farmers, Willem van der Pijl notes that a number of positives to have emerged over the last 12 months, which could help to strengthen the sector’s long-term resilience.
Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons believes that there are plenty of positives to be taken from the last 12 months in aquaculture and has an optimistic outlook for the sector in 2024 – but mention the fisheries and marine ingredients lobbies to him at your peril.
After more than a decade of raising eels, Sara Rademaker, the founder of American Unagi, sees New England’s eel farming sector as having a much greater chance of acceptance – and success – than many of the high profile plans for land-based farms that are curre…
GreenWave – a non-profit co-founded by Bren Smith in 2014 – recently launched a new app called Seaweed Source to facilitate forward contracts and build value chain relationships between growers and buyers in the North American seaweed sector.
The introduction of the Science-based Equitable Aquaculture Food (SEAfood) Act, is an unmissable opportunity for the US to step up offshore aquaculture production and ensure the country takes a more responsible stance on seafood security.
Symbrosia* is a Hawaii-based startup that’s producing seaweed-based feed additives derived from Asparagopsis seaweed to reduce methane emissions from livestock eructation.
Viable Gear founder Katie Weiler is in the early stages of making equipment for the aquaculture industry using a seaweed polymer to reduce the amount of petroleum-based plastics entering our oceans from the sector.
An impact is an impact, independent of the country where it is felt. If we are going to import products, we should be just as happy to have them produced in our backyards. And we can be: if we incentivise US producers to take a smart, sustainable approach to f…
Combining the tech and investment resources of Silicon Valley with the practical salmon farming expertise of Norway has been crucial to the success of Aquabyte, according to founder and CEO Bryton Shang.
