The Fish Site

Aquaculture startup Seafields aims to remove billions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere each year by growing and harvesting Sargassum in the South Atlantic Gyre, as John Auckland – co-founder and director – explains.

Seabin to scale up mission to clean the world's oceans

Water quality Sustainability

17 May 2023

Backing bacteriophages to replace antibiotics in trout farming

Biotechnology Bacterial diseases Trout

16 May 2023

Former Nova Sea CEO joins Seafood People

People

16 May 2023

Great Salt Lake’s Artemia fishery lands MSC certification

Live feed Certification Artemia

16 May 2023

Trondheim to host Seagriculture EU 2023

Events

16 May 2023

Meet the farmer The Indian who took up aquaculture to fulfil his father's dying wish

Breeding & genetics People Carp

16 May 2023

ZR Thahmingliana started a carp farm to honour the last wish of his father, who wanted to make the small state of Mizoram in northeast India self-reliant in fish production.

NOC partners with Ploughshare to scale up its global ocean research

Sustainability Blue carbon

15 May 2023

New tech partnership to boost seaweed farming in SE Asia

Sustainability Regenerative aquaculture Seaweed / Macroalgae

15 May 2023

SAIC marks major funding milestone

Investment R&D Salmonids

15 May 2023

King crabs shows promise for aquaculture

Fish stocks Nutrition Crabs

15 May 2023

Meet the founders From oysterman to Oceanfarmr executive

Technology & equipment People Mussels

15 May 2023

Ewan McAsh is the founder and CEO of Oceanfarmr (originally SmartOysters) – a startup that aims to streamline production and open up access to finance for 400,000 producers of oysters, mussels and seaweed around the world.

IFFO reports slump in Chinese domestic fishmeal production

Feed ingredients Industry analysis Catfish / Pangasius

12 May 2023

Politicians to the fore at annual SAGB conference

Events Regulations Crabs

12 May 2023

Swedish land-based trout producer secures key investment

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) Land-based production systems Trout

12 May 2023

Incentivising carp aquaculture in Manipur

Politics Food security Carp

12 May 2023

Helped by several initiatives from the government of Manipur, in north-east India, fish farmers have increased production substantially, but scientists feel that the state has not yet fulfilled its true aquaculture potential.

CPM snaps up IDAH

Feed formulation Mergers and acquisitions Shrimp

12 May 2023

New oyster restoration project to take place in Chesapeake Bay

Water quality Startups Oysters

11 May 2023

Regenerative aquaculture crucial to avoid seafood shortage by 2050

Sustainability Regenerative aquaculture Bivalves

11 May 2023

Call for fish farm rents to be reinvested in affordable coastal housing

Politics Socio-economics Atlantic Salmon

11 May 2023

Hawaii's Windward Community College receives $3.5 million grant for macroalgae research centre

Jobs Courses Seaweed / Macroalgae

11 May 2023

Mowi fined £800,000 following fatal salmon farming accident

People Regulations Atlantic Salmon

10 May 2023

New legislation sought for alt seafood labelling

Marketing Consumer

10 May 2023

Carbon Kapture partners with shellfish farmers to set up first seaweed project

Climate change Sustainability Bivalves

10 May 2023

Who’s destined for success in algal aquaculture?

Sustainability Processing Seaweed / Macroalgae

10 May 2023

Peter Green, founder of Paxtier – an algae tech innovation newsletter and community – shares his thoughts on the sector’s most promising startups and some of the key emerging trends.

UK and India partner to tackle diseases in shrimp farming

Disease Welfare Shrimp

10 May 2023

EPA approves use of peracetic acid in recirculating aquaculture systems

9 May 2023

CAT opens aquaculture genome editing centre in San Diego

Genomics Breeding & genetics

9 May 2023

Blue Carbon Lab trials novel mangrove restoration methods

Climate change Blue carbon Aquatic plants

9 May 2023

Exploring how gut microbiota can influence the health of farmed fish

Nutrition Health Sea bass

9 May 2023

Diving into shrimp farming in Vietnam with Tepbac

Husbandry Technology & equipment Shrimp

9 May 2023

Vietnamese shrimp tech startup, Tepbac, recently landed a $2.25 million investment from Aqua-Spark*, AgFunder and Son-Tech Investment to scale its technology to digitise shrimp farming in Vietnam. Angela Tay, senior investment associate at AgFunder Asia, expla…

Backing an Indian tilapia boom

People Alternative proteins Shrimp

8 May 2023

The Lutz Report Why pacu could become a major freshwater aquaculture contender

Husbandry Breeding & genetics Freshwater fish

8 May 2023

Pacu – which are also called tambaqui, pirapitinga, cachama, morocoto, or gamitana – are among the fish with the greatest potential to challenge the dominance of carps and tilapias in tropical freshwater aquaculture, especially if geneticists succeed in elimin…