Freshwater fish

A new partnership aims to bring IoT-based solutions to India’s aquaculture and fishery sectors, including monitoring oxygen and pH levels in water and enhancing fish yields and profitability for fish farmers.

Increasing numbers of people displaced by the construction of a reservoir in India’s Jharkhand State are turning to cage culture of tilapia and pangasius, thanks to government subsidies and reports of good profits.

Twenty-seven-year-old Abdulmalik Oladipupo is the aquaculture senior supervisor at Patec Foods Limited, which produces catfish and pangasius in an RAS farm in Nigeria.

The FAO and EU have teamed up to launch an aquaculture project that aims to restore the livelihoods and enhance the food security of vulnerable communities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.

Though many leading cell-cultured seafood companies are based in Asia, Dr Sebastian Rakers, co-founder of Bluu Biosciences, believes that European consumers will embrace cell-based seafood due to its enhanced sustainabil…

The Yield Lab has announced the eight startups selected to participate in its Global Aquaculture Challenge (GAC) 2021 – a non-profit accelerator programme and competition.

A $120 million fish processing factory, which has been certified to export to the EU, is expected to give a major boost to fish farming in Kenya.

Aquaculture Africa 2021 is set to go ahead in the Egyptian port of Alexandria, from December 11-14, according to the African Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (WAS).

Using low quality feeds that target both farmed fish and the organisms in the ponds that they’re raised in can reduce costs and improve performance.

The possibility of breeding tilapia that are resistant to tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is one step closer, thanks to a genomic research breakthrough.

The US Grains Council (USGC) has invested significantly in both resources and relationships to target Southeast Asia’s aquaculture feed sector, in the hope of selling an additional 1.125 million tonnes of American grains…

Indian startup Aquaconnect, which bills itself as “South Asia's largest aqua farmers’ network”, announced today that it has raised $4 million (INR 29.7 Crores) in a pre-series A round.

Among the most economically important farmed fish, production methods, levels of technological development and the types of fish health and well-being issues faced can vary widely — and those in the industry that make a …

Aquaculture is used to help enhance wild stocks of nearly 200 aquatic species around the world, but these programmes have had mixed results.

A plan to build a new hatchery capable of producing milkfish, mangrove crabs, tilapia and tiger prawns has been announced in the Philippines this week.

According to Jeff Cheng, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) don’t need to be used for high value species or purely by large corporations, but are well within the grasp of relatively small aquaculture players, produc…

A new app to disseminate the latest freshwater aquaculture technologies to the country's fish farmers has been launched this week.

Carlos Diaz, CEO of BioMar, explains the logic behind the company’s ambitious new 2030 sustainability goals and muses on how the company – and the wider aquaculture industry – is likely to grow in the coming decades.

A growth in the pangasius trade has been a key driver behind a 20 percent increase in Vietnam’s aquatic exports in the first six months of the year.

Dr Anna Silvia Pedrazanni, fish vet and key partner in Brazil’s Tilapia Welfare Project, discusses welfare, fish health and how Brazil has the potential to become the world’s top tilapia producer.