Shrimp

A new line of tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) seed is now available to farmers in India.

Cooke Seafood, the parent company of Cooke Aquaculture, has acquired Seajoy Seafood, a Central American organic shrimp producer, for an undisclosed sum.

The Bangladeshi government plans to allow trial production of vannamei shrimp, as they consider switching from their native tiger prawn.

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co has committed $100 million to Minh Phu Seafood Corporation, Vietnam’s largest shrimp processing company.

Vietnam aims to increase the value of its aquaculture exports by 10 percent next year, reaching $10.5 billion.

Hendrix Genetics, in partnership with Nutreco and Ecuacultivos, will invest in Ecuador to establish a state-of-the-art shrimp hatchery.

Biofloc systems could allow shrimp farmers to double stocking densities without impacting growth rates, according to the results of a new study.

Papers on the use of aeration in catfish culture, how bioflocs contribute to shrimp nutrition and why standardisation is vital for successful cryopreservation to safeguard key aquaculture stocks were among the highlights…

The next 18 months are expected to be key for Benchmark Holdings as the group hopes that its wide portfolio of investments will finally begin to generate returns for its investors.

Quang Tri province in central Vietnam plans to raise the value of its shrimp sector from from 550 billion dong (US $23.9 million) to over 1 trillion dong a year by building state-of-the-art production facilities.

An initiative that aims to help fund innovations which will improve the performance of the shrimp farming industry is kicking off in Jakarta later this month.

Aquaculture and environmental consultants Jonah van Beijnen and Gregg Yan outline some of the key developments they expect to take place in the Asian aquaculture sector in the year ahead.

Victoria Alday-Sanz, director of biosecurity and breeding programmes at Saudi Arabia's National Aqua Group (NAQUA), talks about the challenges of looking after 80,000 tonnes of fish and shrimp each year.

Aquamonk, an Indian based start-up that uses real-time monitoring and data management for shrimp farming, has been voted Most Investible Business at the Hatch Accelerator Demo Day.

BioMar has announced plans to increase the capacity of its shrimp feed factory in Ecuador by a further 40,000 tonnes by 2020.

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.

A new platform which automates data collection and allows shrimp farmers to make informed data-driven decisions to maximise farm profitability has been launched by XpertSea today.

Belgium headquartered Nutriad, a pioneer in species specific additive solutions for fish and shrimp, participated in the 9th Future Fish Eurasia exhibition, which was organised at the Izmir International Fair Centre (Tur…

Salmon prices are to remain high during 2019, while the outlook for shrimp prices looks less promising, due to the continued recovery of global production figures, according to a new report from Rabobank.