As 2025 draws to a close so does my role. While I’m looking forward to some fresh challenges in the aquacultural/editorial sphere, I will miss working in a privileged position that has allowed me to investigate all manner of weird and wonderful tales from a sector that’s blessed with remarkable variety – of species, geographies and people. After thousands of features, hundreds of newsletters and countless aquaholic adventures, I’d like to thank all the readers, sponsors, colleagues and contributors who’ve made The Fish Site tick over the last eight years. And, below, I’ve selected a few of the stories I’ve most enjoyed writing or reading about over this time. 

While many of the industry’s key challenges are still to be solved – and too many of the technologies that were hailed as the saviours of the sector a decade ago haven't proved commercially viable yet – it’s encouraging to see that there’s still no shortage of innovation to report on. I just hope that, looking ahead, more investors are willing to support those elements of the sector that have the potential to genuinely make a difference – whether by alleviating pressures on aquatic ecosystems or by improving the lives of the people who inhabit their fringes – rather than bankrolling species and systems that purely cater for the feeding and financial wellbeing of the few.