China’s shift towards an increasingly Western pattern of seafood production and consumption – one that relies on imports from countries with greater natural capital per capita – appears to be gaining momentum.
Despite its isolated desert location, Naqua – which produces shrimp and barramundi in Saudi Arabia – is in the process of securing sufficient funding to more that double its output to 250,000 tonnes of seafood each year by 2030.
An Egyptian team has succeeded in developing a smart device to estimate the feed intake required for each tank on a fish farm, helping improve productivity and water quality.
Although monodon production is now dwarfed by vannamei farming, the species is tipped to make a comeback, with many Asian farmers realising that it could be a lucrative low density alternative to intensive vannamei production.
In the space of three years, a run-down fish market in Whitby’s iconic harbour has been transformed into a thriving lobster hatchery, which aims to support the local fishery as well as attract and educate visitors to this iconic Yorkshire fishing town.
As an advocate of seaweed aquaculture, biologist Patricia Bianchi promotes sustainable food production all over the world with the aim to improve livelihoods and minimise environmental impacts through her role in the ASC-MSC seaweed programme.
The Ocean 14 Capital fund is approaching the €200 million mark, making it “the largest impact fund in the blue economy”, according to co-founders Chris Gorell Barnes and Francisco Saraiva Gomes, and has recently closed six investments, three of which are not y…
