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The projected rapid growth of the aquaculture sector in Africa needs timely interventions to mitigate its potential negative impacts on the continent’s critical aquatic ecosystems, according to leadin…

Scotland’s mussel and oyster farmers will descend on Oban this week for the annual conference of the Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers (ASSG).

Charoen Pokphands Foods (CPF) has announced plans to stop farming shrimp in outdoor facilities within the next five years.

Osmo Systems, a Silicon Valley-based startup that makes a new type of water quality sensor for the aquaculture industry, won the Innovation Award at the GOAL conference in Ecuador this week.

Plans to allow aquaculture to take place in US federal waters received a setback yesterday after a coalition of fishing and public interest groups won a lawsuit challenging the Department of Commerce’…

While biotechnology may draw mixed responses from consumers, producers and regulators around the world, it has a crucial role in ensuring the sustainable development of global aquaculture.

A new collaborative project designed to help fish and shrimp farmers in Vietnam achieve ASC certification has been launched today.

Loch Duart, the independent salmon farming company, has partnered with an award-winning environmental organisation to protect Scotland's bees.

Polish fish farmer Jurassic Salmon is on the look-out for an investor to support the further development of its fish farm in Janowo, according to senior company representatives.

The ASC has welcomed the first Dutch farm to its programme after Kingfish Zeeland achieved seriola certification.

Global shrimp production is likely to increase by over 18 percent by 2020, according to Dr James Anderson, with Ecuador, Honduras, Panama and Saudi Arabia leading the charge.

This year's High Energy Mariculture Europe conference, which is taking place in Corfu, is set to feature speakers from a variety of countries, including the USA, Iceland, Australia and Israel.

Gael Force Group has revealed its plans to expand its business overseas with the supply of a full range of marine equipment, technology and services to Atlantic Canada’s aquaculture market.

Cermaq has transferred its first batch of smolt into the world’s largest flexible closed containment system, which has the capacity to hold 400 tonnes of salmon.

The winners of a competition for short films that focus on women in the seafood industry have been announced today.

Salmon waste is helping to provide power to the Isle of Lewis, thanks to a recent upgrade of its main waste processing facility.

An outbreak of algae – possibly caused by agricultural run-off – is suspected as the cause of 750,000 mortalities at a salmon farm in the Faroe Islands last week.

Seafood investor Broodstock Capital has acquired 50 perent of water treatment company NP Innovation, a leading supplier of water treatment technologies for aquaculture systems.

A three-year project that aims to help alleviate gill disease in farmed salmon, largely by focusing on net management strategies, has been launched today.

A project that aims to develop a new innovative software tool to reduce the environmental footprint of the aquaculture industry and optimise efficiencies in the sector is currently being developed by …