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The Seafood Task Force has been instrumental in improving supply chain collaboration and new norms – in terms of human rights, labour conditions and the sourcing of sustainable feed ingredients – in the Thai shrimp farmi…

In the first installment of a new series for The Fish Site, Sophie Ryan, CEO of the Global Salmon Initiative, explains why the current pandemic strengthens the argument for aquaculture producers to raise their sustainabi…

We need to understand the past, address the present and be able to foresee the future. To achieve this in aquaculture, it is fundamental that we digitalise both research and the industry.

A trial to test how blockchain technology can improve the traceability in Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector is scheduled to be launched this week.

A new report into the global specific pathogen-free (SPF) L. vannamei broodstock market and production clusters has been published today.

Following the designation of aquaculture opportunity areas in the Gulf of Mexico and off California, Neil Anthony Sims, head of Ocean Era and one of the trailblazers of the offshore aquaculture sector, explains to The Fi…

Ensuring optimum water quality parameters is the biggest challenge for ensuring the smooth running of a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).

Combining the use of innovative technologies and lessons learned from the terrestrial livestock sector will enable huge improvements in the aquaculture indsutry, according to Laurent Genet, chief strategy officer at Nutr…

Interest in tank-based shrimp production systems has been increasing in recent years in North America and Europe, while it's also slowly gaining traction in tropical regions too.

Arctic Salmon, which claims to be the world’s only underground trout producer, has announced plans to become one of northwest Russia’s leading aquaculture players within the next few years.

Embracing hapa nets in lieu of tank culture methods can help sea cucumber producers reduce labour costs and give them an economic edge – allowing them to sustainably produce early-juvenile sea cucumbers for grow…

How a newcomer to aquaculture is upgrading the technology and adopting novel local feed ingredients to bring out the best in his family's tilapia and catfish farm.

The potential of the seaweed farming and processing sectors in the development of thread, fertiliser, bio-plastics and leather substitutes is massive, according to Chung Ngin Zhun, co-founder of Rhodomaxx – a Malaysian s…

GPS Group has been an integral force in reducing the Ecuadorian shrimp farming sector’s reliance on diesel-fired generators, and are on the cusp of launching the world’s first carbon zero certification for farm-raised sh…

Eight startups from a wide range of geographies have been selected for Hatch’s fourth aquaculture accelerator programme, which launched in Bergen today.

One of the world’s top tilapia hatcheries has traced a radical upturn in the proportion of female tilapia in their normally all-male stock back to changes in the antioxidants used by their feed provider.

A new cutting-edge facility designed for recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) trials on coldwater species is now operational in Bergen.

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted different countries very differently – as illustrated by the stark differences in the performance of the shrimp sectors of Ecuador and Vietnam.

Fish farming is getting increasingly widespread in Zimbabwe, thanks to a joint drive to promote it.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has partnered with Hatch Blue in a bid to identify the next generation of sustainable aquaculture farms.