Despite being dominated by the production of a single commodity, shrimp farming is a remarkably disparate business with a huge variety of business models and production techniques.
Eleven of the most exciting businesses to emerge from Aotearoa New Zealand’s aquaculture and aquatech industry sectors are gearing up to visit Aqua Nor, one of the largest aquaculture trade shows and conferences on the planet.
Although native to the US, the American paddlefish is now widely farmed across the world's temperate regions and – thanks to its highly regarded meat and roe – offers an exciting alternative to sturgeon.
The Zimbabwe government has embarked on an ambitious aquaculture programme that it says will address food insecurity, unemployment and income generation – but critics have labelled it a “vanity project.”
Rural Aquaculture Development (RAD) has developed an innovative model both to grow and sell its own tilapia, and to support the local aquaculture sector, in a bid to improve smallholder livelihoods in western Uganda.
Jason Deglint, founder of Blue Lion Labs, explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can provide an early warning system for possible outbreaks of algae in aquaculture.
How shrimp producers – and those who provide their feeds – can remain solvent during a time of rock-bottom shrimp prices and record feed costs will form the crux of many of the discussions in the feed session at the forthcoming Global Shrimp Forum.
The use of insect-based aquafeed ingredients – and potentially diversification into insect farming itself – could offer valuable opportunities for India’s small-scale aquaculture producers.
