Shrimp

The hyper-intensive production of tropical species might be a hard sell in the US, but a handful of companies have developed systems that have made successful leaps in the sector.

Pioneering aquaculture company Great British Prawns has announced plans to grow over a million vannamei shrimp per cycle in a dairy farm in Scotland.

Five fledgling aquaculture firms have reached the final of this year’s Aquaculture Innovation Challenge (AIC).

Mitsui has acquired significant equity interest in Minh Phu Seafood as part of a medium-term management plan.

How a pioneering Australian scientist teamed up with one of the world’s most advanced aquaculture nutrition companies to defy conventional academic wisdom and develop a range of probiotics that has enabled the shrimp sec…

Aquaculture producers in India’s coastal regions should consider producing marine finfish, such as silver pompano, between shrimp crops rather than leaving them fallow, according to newly published research.

Delegates at Seafood Expo Global today are being given the chance to taste shrimp fed on diets containing protein produced from natural gas.

Over 150 Thai shrimp farmers have signed up to a new collaborative data collection and sharing project that has been launched in a bid to reduce the impact of diseases on the sector.

The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP) has today announced it has joined the IBM Food Trust ecosystem, which will help provide traceability of SSP shrimp from farm to fork.

Chiu Liao, a professor at National Taiwan Ocean University who is known as Asia’s “father of aquaculture”, has won one of this year's three Nikkei Asia prizes.

Substituting microalgae for at least part of the fish oil content contained in shrimp feeds can improve the growth rates and FCRs of whiteleg shrimp.

The Project-X Global is accepting applications from innovators looking to transform the sustainable feed industry through the FEED-X Challenge.

The establishment of a successful larval rearing protocol for European brown shrimp can “be used to develop a large‐scale rearing system for C. crangon larvae in either flow‐through or recirculation systems”.

A new collaboration involving a consortium of Dutch companies seeking to secure sustainable investments in the Vietnamese shrimp sector was created this week.

A new programme designed to help small aquaculture producers apply for sustainability certification has been launched in Vietnam today.

Despite struggling to achieve bulk production volumes and compete with global commodities such as fishmeal and soy, opportunities for alternative protein producers in aquafeed sector are only going to grow in the coming …

Substituting fishmeal for plant ingredients in aquaculture feeds may not be the ecological panacea that many campaigners believe, according to recently published research.

Chinese e-commerce giant ecMAx has signed an agreement to buy €100 million worth of shrimp and other aquaculture products from Lim Shrimp Organization’s Indonesian operations over the next 10 years.

Cooke has acquired Farallon Aquaculture de Nicaragua, a vertically-integrated producer of farmed shrimp and a leading supplier of branded fresh-frozen shrimp to major markets in Asia, Europe and the US.

A new project, designed to improve the sustainability of Indonesia’s shrimp farming sector, has been launched by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) this week.