Freshwater fish

aquaManager, a software platform that is designed to improve the running of aquaculture facilities, is now live at Yalelo's tilapia farms in Zambia and Uganda.

Funke Olatunde Kechicha is a catfish producer at Imoran Farms and PhD student at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She recently won the Rising Star category at the 2020 Aquaculture Awards and is looking forward to bot…

Freshwater finfish such as tilapia and pangasius/catfish, as well as a host of emerging marine finfish species, are set to be the key engines of growth for global aquaculture, according to Gorjan Nikolik.

Vin Hoan, the Vietnam-based company that is the world's largest pangasius producer, has been singled out for praise in a new report on female executives in the seafood sector.

Global tilapia production grew by 3.3 percent in 2020 to top 6 million tonnes for the first time, despite the impact of Covid-19.

When considering ongoing genetic improvement efforts in tilapia culture, comparisons with the development of the modern chicken industry often present themselves.

The project that is investigating the use of tilapia skin in human medicine has won a €500,000 prize.

Benchmark's tilapia genetics company Spring Genetics has signed a five-year broodstock agreement with oe of Africa's leading tilapia producers, Lake Harvest Group.

New trials in Ghana suggest that the GIFT strain of tilapia grows twice as fast as the native Akosombo strain, which are currently favoured by farmers.

Tilapia producers in different countries have fared very differently in 2020. This run-through of the key regions provides a valuable overview of a year that many will want to forget.

Msingi – a development organisation with a focus on East Africa – is currently inviting bids for a contract related to the provision of genetics support for a tilapia breeding programme.

Ghana’s tilapia and catfish farmers are both optimistic about the growth of their respective sectors, leading to much good-natured talk about which will prevail in the long-term “war”.

A trial to test how blockchain technology can improve the traceability in Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector is scheduled to be launched this week.

The growth of China’s aquaculture sector is being severely limited by issues including changing consumer demands, restrictive government policies and environmental issues, according to a recent paper that discusses the i…

The Ghana Tilapia Seed (TiSeed) project has successfully trained 227 fish farmers and Fisheries Commission (FC) zonal officers in good aquaculture practices that can help improve productivity and profits.

The state government in Odisha, India has launched a new policy to promote biofloc farming in intensive aquaculture operations.

How a newcomer to aquaculture is upgrading the technology and adopting novel local feed ingredients to bring out the best in his family's tilapia and catfish farm.

One of the world’s top tilapia hatcheries has traced a radical upturn in the proportion of female tilapia in their normally all-male stock back to changes in the antioxidants used by their feed provider.