Following a challenging seven years, Nigeria’s first commercial-scale black tiger prawn producer is now up, running and ready to supply high end markets with ASC certified shrimp – from Lagos, to Rotterdam and beyond.
Asia’s shrimp farmers need to reboot their attitude to biosecurity and stocking densities, argues Robins McIntosh, in a follow-on to Monday’s article on the dangers of disinfection*.
The overuse of disinfectants, coupled with farmers’ willingness to exceed their systems’ carrying capacities, have been key factors in the downfall of the Asian shrimp sector over the last decade, according to Robins McIntosh*.
The production of shrimp in Asia is likely to experience minimal growth in 2023, according to Gorjan Nikolik, who also argues that prices are unlikely to improve much from their current level.
Ananda Arrieta is helping to pioneer the use of bioremediation in Australia's aquaculture sector and sees her work as an essential part of the evolution of land-based aquaculture systems.
Indian aquaculture producers need better guidance from aquatech companies as well as access to government subsidies to help secure their productivity and livelihoods.
How Ecuador has achieved such a meteoric growth in shrimp production and how they can adapt their sales to ensure they fully capitalise on this growth were the key themes of a talk delivered at September's Global Shrimp Forum by Gabriel Luna.
Ecuador’s relatively extensive shrimp farming techniques have ensured that their shrimp are robust enough to cope with the presence of pathogens that would be disastrous in most parts of Asia – allowing them to continuously produce shrimp sustainably for decad…
Taprobane Seafood’s Tim O’Reilly faced a four-year approval process and significant protests when introducing Litopenaeus vannamei to Sri Lanka – but has since found that his eco-certified shrimp are an economic bright spot and a key element in Sri La…
