In markets around the world, aquaculture producers are waking up to the opportunities offered by native and indigenous species. We look at initiatives from Brazil and elsewhere that are making use of their local resources.
Marcela Salazar, Benchmark’s shrimp production manager and one of the pioneers of shrimp genetics, explains how shrimp breeding programmes have evolved and are likely to be heading.
Aiming for a greater share of the domestic market, and to bring sustainable practices into the industry’s foreground, shrimp producer Russkaya Krevetka is hoping to start a Russian aquaculture revolution.
With a surge in domestic demand, and a bold new initiative, Burkina Faso has ambitious plans for its aquaculture. But can this land-locked African nation really achieve a 40-fold increase in fish production within a year?
Andy Shinn, director of Fish Vet Group Asia, and a world renowned expert on aquatic parasites, believes that the shrimp sector can do more to limit the impact of those disease challenges that form the sector’s largest constraint.
