Women in aquaculture

Seaweed aquaculture is prominent across Japan, but in the southern prefecture of Saga it has a particularly successful history. Home to seaweed farming for more than a century, Saga faces the Ariake …

Originally from Brittany, Marie-Aude Danguy has been living and working in Ireland since the 1990s. She began working with a group of local shellfish farmers before establishing her own company, Trisk…

The emeritus professor of functional ecology at the University of Glasgow, who is one of the world’s preeminent experts on fish behaviour, discusses salmon welfare, nesting sticklebacks… and a near de…

Dr Jesse Trushenski, director of science at Riverence and its sister company, Evaqua Farms, president of the American Fisheries Society and author of Understanding Aquaculture, describes her perfect j…

Victoria Alday-Sanz, director of biosecurity and breeding programmes at Saudi Arabia's National Aqua Group (NAQUA), talks about the challenges of looking after 80,000 tonnes of fish and shrimp each ye…

The Fish Site's Women in Aquaculture series was highlighted at a recent seminar at the United Nations University in Tokyo, which focused on women's roles in the seafood sector.

Linn Therese Skår Hosteland grew up helping her family produce salmon, cod and halibut on a farm in western Norway. Despite wanting to escape the sector at 15, she has no regrets at returning in 2014 …

Dr Laura Braden, an eminent sea lice researcher who now works for AquaBounty, lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada, with her husband-to-be, a young baby, two German shepherds and a Norwegian forest c…

The Fish Site's Women in aquaculture series is among the many topics to be presented at the JIRCAS seminar in Tokyo next week.

Patricia Barrera swapped a career in pharmaceuticals to follow her passion for aquaculture, establishing Trout Managers SAS in Colombia, which she now runs.

After several years conducting fish health checks in aquariums, Marie Tan switched to aquaculture to help minimise fish losses from disease and develop health strategies to respond quickly to disease …

In the course of a decade in aquaculture Kyra Hoevenaars has worked with all manner of fish species in some of the most politically turbulent countries on the planet

Following a knee injury Ragnhild Jesica Bjella swapped life as a chef for work as a commercial diver for Norway’s salmon-farming industry. Despite a number of close encounters with Greenland sharks, s…

Not content with merely transforming an abandoned fish farm into a thriving catfish-farming cluster, Benedicta Peter-Ugheoke is also an aquaculture trainer and consultant who has helped encourage many…

Shweta Vakil, director of one of India's largest aquaculture companies, explains how her role involves working with hatcheries, farmers and the post-production sector to take shrimps “from farm to for…

Liris Maduningtyas, entrepreneur, shrimp farmer and CEO of Jala Tech, outlines how she plans to use data mining to improve shrimp health in Indonesia and beyond.

Sarah Last explains how she helped to transform the fortunes of one of the most isolated, technologically challenging and logistically complicated salmon farms in Scotland.

Ways to address the gender inequalities in the aquaculture sector were the subject of a talk by Dr Cecile Brugere at AQUA 2018 today.

Joana Amaral would like to use her 20+ years of experience in marine hatcheries to help encourage the complete replacement of live feed for larval finfish, a goal that she’s currently working on with …

Margie Saul, a minnow farmer and bait delivery driver from Arkansas, discusses problems caused by permits, pelicans and encounters with exhibitionists on the highways of the USA