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

Christian Schäfer, the new General Manager of AKVA group Chile has been appointed with a brief to "continue consolidating growth and create value for the company's customers".

Organic Sea Harvest (OSH), the first new entrant to Scotland’s salmon farming sector for nearly a decade, has announced that it plans to have its first two sites stocked in 2020.

The Irish rope grown mussel industry has been awarded Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification this month.

An inaugural EAS Aquaculture Europe Innovation Forum is among the most eagerly anticipated sessions set to feature at AE2109, which is taking place Berlin on 7-11 October.

A new study has compared the feed cost differences between high-fat and high-protein diets used in salmon farming and finds that high-protein diets could improve feed conversion and growth performance – saving producers money in the long-term.…

Soul of Japan, the Japanese arm of land-based salmon farming pioneer Pure Salmon, has secured an exclusive distribution agreement with the Japanese trading giant Itochu.

Crown Estate Scotland has announced plans to launch “a comprehensive ‘root and branch’ review of how Scotland’s seabed is leased for aquaculture” in order to “promote sustainable development and wider…

The first confirmed case of tilapia lake virus (TiLV) in the USA emphasises the need for producers to ensure biosecurity is a top priority, according to a leading US tilapia breeder.

“Aquaculture is crucial to addressing major economic problems in Africa today,” according to Henk Stander, researcher at the Aquaculture Division of the Department of Sciences at the University of Ste…

A new facility that aims to produce single-cell protein for uses including the aquaculture feed industry has recently been completed in China.

Pescanova has announced plans to start selling farmed octopus by 2023, having recently succeeded in closing the breeding cycle of the cephalopod in captivity.

Crown Estate Scotland is currently looking for applicants to take up a role that involves engaging with stakeholders to identify and implement marine aquaculture opportunities.

A new suspect has emerged in the search for the causes of the massive disease outbreak that has been affecting tilapia on Lake Volta in Ghana.

The contract for a farm in Qatar that has ambitions to produce up to 100,000 tonnes of shrimp a year has been awarded to ITQAN and Global Blue Technologies.

Funding to create the largest high-tech commercial-scale insect protein production facility in Southeast Asia has been secured by Nutrition Technologies.

Research into ways of assessing the welfare of farmed lumpfish has been awarded a prize by 5m Publishing, The Fish Site’s parent company.

Prairie AquaTech has opened a new facility in Volga, South Dakota; allowing soybean farmers a new way to process non-GMO soybeans.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance is proud to announce that its industry-leading third-party aquaculture certification program, Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP), has a new look.

As EU countries consider banning many chemical therapeutants used in fish farming, researchers suggest using humic substances and hydrogen peroxide as sustainable and environmentally friendly treatmen…