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Evans Danso, CEO of Flosell Farms, a tilapia hatchery and farm in the Volta Region, has been deemed to be Ghana’s best fish farmer of 2020.

A co-operative of 11 seaweed farms in South Korea are targeting European markets after achieving ASC-MSC certification.

Salmon farming firms have taken four of the top seven places in an index that assesses the sustainability levels of 60 of the world's key protein producers.

Plans to establish a hatchery to produce brackish water finfish species including Asian seabass, milkfish and pearl spot for on-growing by Indian aquaculture companies have been announced this week.

Achieving net zero emissions by 2045 is among the pledges made in a major new blueprint setting out a long-term vision for Scotland’s successful farmed salmon sector.

Juvenile lobsters could be grown in containers attached to commercial salmon farms, as part of an integrated multi-tropic aquaculture (IMTA) system, according to a new study.

British Columbia’s salmon farming industry has the potential to be a leader in the province’s post-pandemic economic recovery by stimulating $44 billion in new economic output by 2050.

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.