The meteoric growth of Ecuador’s shrimp production has finally come to the halt due to low shrimp prices and weak Chinese demand, but analysts expect the shrimp world’s export leaders to make more inroads into the US market.
Independent sustainable shrimp producers will go out of business unless retailers are willing to pay more for their product, according to Jessica Rivera Rodriguez, sales director at MER Seafood, one of Honduras’s largest privately owned shrimp companies.
Times have rarely been tougher for shrimp farmers in India, but Balasubramaniam V, general secretary of the Prawn Farmers Federation of India, believes that the industry can transform its fortunes through a combination of improved genetics, the use of native s…
Aquasend’s low maintenance water quality sensors are being used by an increasingly wide range of international aquaculture producers, as CEO, Kristin Elliott, explains.
How Ecuador’s shrimp industry has established itself as a global model of sustainability is set to be the key theme of an event taking place on 22 October during AquaExpo Guayaquil.
Egypt has huge potential to increase its production of marine species, in sea cages, coastal ponds and well-based inland farms according to Dr Mohamed Abdel Rahim, one of the country’s leading aquaculture experts.
Eva Keferböck, CEO of White Panther, an Austrian clearwater shrimp producer, explains why they abandoned biofloc, how their farm is hugely self-sufficient and when she expects to turn a profit.
A wave of new welfare-based seafood sourcing policies suggests strong consumer demand for improving conditions for farmed crustaceans, but a literature review suggests that the sentience of decapod species is far from clear cut.
Scientists in India have developed a new strain of disease-resistant giant river prawn, helping to generate fresh revenue streams for fish farmers in Assam.
Following a quiet couple of years, Knip (formerly KnipBio) is now gaining impressive traction for its functional microbial functional aquafeed ingredient, as recently appointed CEO, Caitlin Wege, explains.
Minh Phu’s rice-shrimp farming model combines rice cultivation and shrimp farming in an integrated and innovative way, optimising land use and farm inputs, while reducing operational risks for farmers in the Mekong Delta.
Despite facing a number of key challenges, Bangladesh’s monodon sector has an opportunity to position itself as a low carbon alternative to the more intensively produced vannamei that dominate global markets.
How shrimp farmers can gain tangible benefits from reducing their carbon footprints is one of the key themes at the climate session of this year’s Global Shrimp Forum.
