Africa

How alternatives to conventional fish feed are offering hope to Zimbabwe’s rural tilapia farmers.

Professor Ahmed Hassan discusses the scope, scale and ambition of the Suez Canal Fish Farming and Aquaculture Company, which is well on its way to achieving one of the most ambitious outdoor aquaculture projects ever seen.

Algae producer SuSeWi is embarking on a visionary project that aims to create “the largest algae farm on earth” – in order to produce a valuable source of protein and long-chain omega-3s for the aquafeed sector.

A Ghanaian project that uses nutrients in wastewater to help improve catfish growth has been gaining considerable traction over the summer.

In troubled economic times, finding food for Zimbabwe’s overflowing prison population has posed both human rights and security challenges. But a new government-backed project is making use of the country’s considerable aquatic resources to ease the situation.

Obtaining reliable power for changing water is a perennial problem for the fish farmers of the Niger Delta – but for some installing solar-powered pumps is proving a cost-effective solution.

Seeing the opportunities in commercial fish farming, investors and government representatives from Sierra Leone have been learning about best practice from friends and colleagues in Ghana – and are ready to transform the sector at home.

Fresh from professionalizing the culture and feed supply chain of salmon, two Dutchmen set their eyes on another promising fish – the Asian sea bass or barramundi (Lates calcarifer). Today their company Barramundi Asia produces 3,000 tonnes with a production p…

With a flying start from a government programme, unemployed young people in Nigeria’s Delta State are discovering aquaculture offers a great opportunity – both to support themselves and help solve the region’s social issues.

How the Nigerian taste for catfish is spreading to Ghana – where some think it might even replace tilapia as the country’s favourite fish.

The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s project manager in the VicInAqua initiative

Cycle Farms, a French-owned biotechnology company, has opened its first insect meal production facility in Ghana.

A proposed levy on imported fish might stimulate Zimbabwe’s local aquaculture industry to grow at a faster rate – but it might also bring its own challenges.

Representatives of Ghana’s tilapia sector see signs for optimism, now that a Chinese-owned tilapia production site has been mothballed.

Jennifer Sodji, who runs one of the biggest fish farms and the leading aquaculture association in Ghana, outlines how political intervention is essential to secure the sector's growth.

Efua Konyim Okai reports from James Camp Prison, Accra, on an aquaculture training initiative that is going to be rolled out across the country’s jails.

A growing number of fish farmers from across Africa are putting pressure on their governments to take action against imported Chinese tilapia.

Aquaponics is helping to keep farmers in drought-ravaged parts of Uganda alive, according to Dr Aisha Nalwoga, a fisheries officer with the Water Governance Institute.