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As aquaculture strategy specialist at The Nature Conservancy, Tiffany Waters has turned a lifelong passion for shellfish and marine environmental management into a vocation in which her work is influencing the development of aquaculture and the communities who…

An innovative new method of indoor shrimp production – which uses a novel method of stacking pools to increase yield – could have the potential to revolutionise the industry.

Now that its new production facility is up and running, Veramaris is reliant on its innovative solution combined with a disruptive marketing strategy to achieve its ambitious goals.

Like many of the world’s great initiatives, Montana Microbial Products (MMP), one of the most promising of a clutch of recent start-ups to focus on the aquafeed sector, began in time-honoured fashion – with a beer.

While aquaculture is often associated with degrading water quality, invasive species introductions and the destruction of important coastal habitats, increasing evidence suggests that well-designed and managed aquaculture – particularly of shellfish and seawee…

Ahead of the Aquaculture Innovation Showcase in September, The Fish Site sat down with Wittaya Aqua co-founder Evan Hall and head of operations Tom McDonell to discuss the background of the business and plans to make a smart-farming system that is affordable, …

The use of aquaculture-derived waste products to grow secondary crops – such as used in biofloc systems or aquaponics – can increase profits by more than 20 percent, as some of the leading proponents of this field explain.

As The Fish Site builds up to the launch of a Women in Aquaculture print publication at Aqua Nor and a seminar on the same theme at AE2019, we are adding several new interviews. Here Sam Macdonald, president of Deep Trekker, explains what drew her into the fis…

With demand rising globally, octopus farming is developing apace – but, mindful of both the animals’ welfare and concerns around sustainability, should we be scaling it up at all?