Freshwater fish

How the Nigerian taste for catfish is spreading to Ghana – where some think it might even replace tilapia as the country’s favourite fish.

A new £680,000 project will use cutting-edge techniques to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Vietnamese catfish – addressing a major challenge for the global aquaculture industry.

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.

The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s projec…

Tilapia producers on Lake Volta are calling for urgent action by the Ghanaian government to deal with the very high level of fish mortalities, which they believe have been caused by the operations of …

How fish farmers can increase their profits at the expense of all-powerful fishmongers was the subject of a workshop held in Nigeria last week.

The inclusion of biofloc meal in feed has been shown to improve the growth and health status of juvenile African catfish.

Jim Tidwell, author of the book Largemouth Bass Aquaculture, which is published by 5m books in April, explains the appeal of a species whose growth is taking off both in China and the US.

Cycle Farms, a French-owned biotechnology company, has opened its first insect meal production facility in Ghana.

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

A team of researchers based in Singapore claim to be close to their goal of developing a strain of tilapia that can thrive in salt water.

A proposed levy on imported fish might stimulate Zimbabwe’s local aquaculture industry to grow at a faster rate – but it might also bring its own challenges.

Pharmaq has formed a strategic partnership with Colombia’s largest tilapia producer, Piscicola Botero, in a bid to improve productivity and sustainability in the tilapia value chain in the country.

Hopes for the development of an effective vaccine to protect tilapia from Streptococcus have been given a boost following the publication of the results of a new study.

A new study suggests that diets in which a proportion of fishmeal is substituted for hydrolyzed soybean meal can improve both the growth rates and antioxidant activity of silver catfish.

Representatives of Ghana’s tilapia sector see signs for optimism, now that a Chinese-owned tilapia production site has been mothballed.

Having recently secured at least $30 million in funding to develop a novel system to revolutionise water-quality monitoring, Professor Chin-yuan Hsieh explains his ambitions in aquaculture.

A three-year project which aims to increase the productivity of the Ghanaian tilapia sector by 20 percent for cage and 15 percent for pond farmers has recently been launched.

Garlic (Allium sativum) has been shown to improve tilapia growth and immunity in a new study undertaken in Pakistan.

Jennifer Sodji, who runs one of the biggest fish farms and the leading aquaculture association in Ghana, outlines how political intervention is essential to secure the sector's growth.