Shrimp

Yit Tung – who farms mud crabs, shrimp and tilapia in Malaysia – has no regrets about swapping a steady job as an engineer in the oil and gas sector for starting up his own aquaculture venture, RAS Aquaculture.

An innovative container design has shown promising results for use in international air freight of live fish.

Researchers at Labomar, the Marine Sciences Institute in Brazil, have published a new study that tests the digestibility of shrimp feed ingredients from a variety of sources.

Nueva Pescanova Group has announced that it has fully digitalised its shrimp hatcheries in Ecuador and Nicaragua with aquaManager's IoT infrastructure.

The Natural Shrimp Company, one of the key aquaculture projects commissioned by Fisheries Development Oman, has begun its first commercial harvest at its site in Qurun, Jalan Bani Bu Hassan, South Sharaqiya Governorate.

Lightsource bp is partnering with Taiwan’s Green Rock Energy to develop and build a 150-megawatt solar farm that is co-located with an aquaculture site.

A shrimp farm operated by Saudi Arabia’s National Aquaculture Group (Naqua) is the first in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to receive Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) shrimp certification.

Shrimp that have been bred for their resistance to disease and ability to thrive despite environmental challenges should be valued as highly – if not more highly – than those bred for their growth rates in many parts of …

A range of emerging technologies offers aquaculture practitioners vital help to improve both their productivity and profitability, as well as ramp up the overall sustainability of the industry.

A new study has discovered exactly how shrimp respond to heat stress - a breakthrough that could help to reduce farmed shrimp mortalities during periods of high water temperatures.

A new report from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture shows that approximately 1,200 hectares of aquaculture area has been affected by diseases since the start of 2022, a 14 percent increase on the same period in 2021.

Research projects from the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture (CTSA) highlight the potential of recycling agriculture and aquaculture byproducts to produce protein-rich aquafeed – and their ability to reduce…

Earthworm Foundation, an international non-profit undertaking social and environmental projects, is partnering with BioMar in a bid to improve the sustainability of Ecuador's shrimp aquaculture industry.

Shrimp farming veteran Victoria Alday Sanz, who is also editor of the newly-published second volume of The shrimp book, explains why her original deserved a follow-up.

ASC has today published a revised ASC Shrimp Standard, as well as new requirements specifically for recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farms.

A pioneering research project, designed to unlock the true potential of sustainable shrimp production in the UK using renewable energy technology, has received a multi-million pound funding boost.

Lisaqua has been granted the use thermal energy from household waste to heat the water in France’s first large-scale shrimp farm.

Aquasend has announced its participation in the Xylem Innovation Incubator Program, which aims to develop innovative ways to solve the world’s greatest water challenges – including those related to aquaculture.

A new generation of formulated feeds for shrimp post-larvae, said to be an affective alternative to the use of Artemia, has recently been launched in India.

A novel diagnostic tool for detecting white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) – one of the pathogens that cause most damage to the shrimp farming sector - has recently been granted a patent.