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Nigeria is well placed to grow its aquaculture sector, helped by a recent training programme, according to the head of the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR).

A new study has revealed the scale of hybridization taking place between native and introduced tilapia in Tanzania.

A Californian court has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has violated core environmental laws in approving genetically engineered salmon.

Lara Barazi-Yeroulanos, CEO of Kefalonia Fisheries, has been elected president of the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP).

Prospective fish farmers are being offered grants that cover up to 50 percent of their capital costs to establish net pen aquaculture facilities in reservoirs in the Indian state of Odisha.

A new research project hopes to develop a treatment for amoebic gill disease (AGD) by exploiting a vulnerability in the parasite that causes it.

Award-winning Scottish aquaculture technology supplier Ace Aquatec has announced the opening of its new Norwegian division, in Bergen.

Bluefront Equity, a private equity fund that aims to invest in companies that make the seafood value chain more sustainable, has been launched by Kjetil Haga and Simen Landmark today.

Newly published research into Atlantic salmon has highlighted a hitherto untapped resource of genetic variation that could help unlock even greater aquaculture production benefits.

Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in cultivating red signal sea cucumbers as far as the juvenile stage in captivity for the first time.

A selection of budding and experienced aquaculture entrepreneurs took part in a two-week online aquaculture innovation workshop earlier this month. The object being to support, develop and ultimately build a growing pipe…

The causes of fish mortality, the impact of climate change and the development of treatments will be the focus for the newly refreshed Farmed Fish Health Framework.

Plans to culture horseshoe crabs in aquaculture facilities are gaining traction, with two notable breakthroughs achieved over the course of the last year.

Though Latin American aquaculture hosts major aquaculture exporters, like Ecuador and Chile, industry leaders fear that the lack of regional governance and fit-for-purpose regulations could hinder the sector’s sustainabl…

Plans to invest $60 million to create the world’s largest kelp farm 3-10 kilometres off the coast of Namibia have been announced today.

Registration for the Second Symposium on Welfare in Aquaculture (SWELA 2020), which is free to attend online on 26 November, is now open.

Although the aquaculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa has been projected to grow faster than in any other region of the world in the next 10 years, it has shown a worrying slowdown since 2018 – a trend that must be urgen…

Seaweed producers and ocean farmers must diversify their operations to make them more economically and ecologically resilient.

A biotech company that aims to turn carbon dioxide into feeds for sectors including aquaculture, has secured sufficient funding to establish a new production facility.

Countries in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) must be more focused on the profitability of the entire aquaculture value chain if they are to achieve their – often lofty – ambitions to grow the sector.