Echinoderms

Cadman Capital Group, the family office and alternative asset investment firm, today announced that it has taken a strategic equity stake in Urchinomics, the pioneering aquaculture venture that turns ecologically destruc…

Researchers at New Zealand's Cawthron Institute welcomed aquaculture technicians from the Pacific Islands last month for a four-week knowledge exchange project funded through a joint Pacific Island government initiative.…

Two new research projects from the University of Stirling showcase how sea cucumbers can become a key feature in sustainable and multi-trophic aquaculture projects – and yield economic benefits for farmers.

A new study funded by the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program hopes to establish baseline information required for Hawaiian sea cucumber culture under shifting water temperatures and salinities.

Genome mining techniques have helped to explain how sea cucumbers produce defensive chemicals that enable them to fend off foes in the murky depths.

Mercedes Wanguemert, one of Europe’s foremost sea cucumber experts, explains her role in the formation of the continent’s fledgling sea cucumber aquaculture sector and why she believes that the echinoderms have huge unta…

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced 24 marine initiatives at the Our Ocean Conference, which took place in Palau this week.

Results from an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) project with sea cucumbers and marine finfish show that the system is feasible, but practitioners need to refine their designs to ensure the sea cucumbers thriv…

A group of researchers working off Panama’s Caribbean coast are re-building the local tropical sea cucumber population.

A promising integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) project aims to restore a threatened sea anemone to a large swathe of the southwest coast of Spain, as well as produce a range of other seafood products.

Plans to commercialise sea urchin production in an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) system are underway in South Africa.

Kara Birkenmayer grew up in Johannesburg, studied at Harvard and, after a short shift of work experience in Panama, ended up in the Seychelles where she is leading a team of inspiring women working on the culture of some…

A project exploring how sea cucumbers could help minimise the environmental impact of fish farming - and in turn allow the aquaculture sector to grow - has received vital investment.

Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in cultivating red signal sea cucumbers as far as the juvenile stage in captivity for the first time.

Embracing hapa nets in lieu of tank culture methods can help sea cucumber producers reduce labour costs and give them an economic edge – allowing them to sustainably produce early-juvenile sea cucumbers for grow…

The EU’s attempts to diversity its aquaculture production have met decidedly mixed results to date, but aquaculture producers have a number of overlooked, yet impressive, native candidates to contend with.

Urchinomics is opening its first land-based sea urchin ranch in Norway, in a project that could both improve marine habitats and help diversify the country's aquaculture sector.

Seagrass debris has the potential to improve the culture of sea cucumbers, according to new research.

The co-culture of sandfish sea cucumbers and Babylon snails (Babylonia areolata) looks promising, according to the authors of a new study.

A new initiative that aims to introduce new low trophic species, products and processes in marine aquaculture across the Atlantic is being launched at this week’s Aquaculture Europe conference.