Aquatic plants

A two-year study tracking the environmental effects of commercial kelp aquaculture indicates that seaweed farming activities can significantly enhance marine biodiversity.

Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research, which has helped to launch some of the state’s most innovative aquaculture businesses, is now the subject of international interest too, helping to attract Kingfish Zeeland to New England. Tim Harde…

One of the UK’s largest aquaculture operations – which ultimately aims to cultivate scallops, oysters and seaweed in novel systems over a 25-hectare site off Yorkshire – is due to get started in the coming months.

Alexia Akbay, founder and CEO of seaweed farming start-up Symbrosia, explains to The Fish Site how the company aims to both reduce the carbon footprint and improve the productivity of ruminant livestock agriculture.

Urchinomics is opening its first land-based sea urchin ranch in Norway, in a project that could both improve marine habitats and help diversify the country's aquaculture sector.

Farmed seaweed can play a key role in the shift away from plastic packaging, according to the COO of a new seaweed processing venture.

A compelling vision for the industrial scale cultivation of seaweed was shared by Bert Groenendaal, from AtSea Nova, at the annual gathering of the Scottish Seaweed Industry Association in Oban this week.

The US seaweed aquaculture sector is beginning to take off, in the process growing brand new businesses, providing important ecosystem services and allowing fishermen to supplement their income, as Tim Harder explains.

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.

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…

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.

We should think of seaweed as anything but the unwelcome marine “plants” their name would suggest. These oft-overlooked species within the aquaculture world have tremendously diverse commercial applications; the potential to improve human wellbeing for coastal…

Long Island’s fledgling sugar kelp farming sector “may unlock a wealth of economic and environmental opportunities for coastal communities”.

Josh Goldman, founder and CEO of Australis, delves into barramundi production, how to overcome the challenges of land-based farming and how catering for millennials is the key to his continued success

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 Sea, which is known for its nutrient-rich waters. Fresh wate…

Ranching sea urchins, RAS shrimp production and land-based seaweed cultivation were among the ventures pitched to potential investors at Fish 2.0’s meeting in California this week.

Dr Flower Msuya, chairperson and facilitator at the Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative (ZaSCI) works in villages in Zanzibar to study climate change, modify farming methods and add value to seaweed. As the Tanzanian island’s seaweed aquaculture takes off, Dr …

A project that is looking into to both produce microalgae for fish feed and turn fish by-products into biodiesel is yielding promising results.