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Ghana’s new Aquaculture Development Plan aims to increase the country’s fish farming output from 89,376 tonnes in 2021 to 211,697 tonnes by the end of 2027 – an increase of 136 percent.

The University of Stirling has secured £780,000 in funding for fish welfare projects in Vietnam and Thailand.

As nearly 1 million tonnes of aquaculture wastes are discarded each year across Vietnam, businesses are exploring ways to reclaim the waste to shore up their environmental credentials and revenue streams.

An event to demonstrate the progress being made by a project that evaluates the replacement of fishmeal with Candida yeast meal as a diet for African catfish has been scheduled for 5 December.

A newly launched consortium of Blue Planet, Lake Harvest Group, Larive International, Lattice Aquaculture and Skretting/Tunga Nutrition has launched a €2 million project provide practical and applicable expertise to empo…

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN is recognising Mississippi State University’s (MSU) expertise in fisheries and aquaculture science by making it a reference centre on aquaculture biosecurity and antimicrob…

Gishanda Fish Farm, a new development initiative between Akagera National Park, FoodTechAfrica and a consortium of Dutch companies, begins operations on 18 October.

How IDH’s 5-step roadmap can help aquaculture companies in Vietnam secure living wages for all their employees.

Flexible ingredient formulations, enzymes, optimised microbiomes and genetics are playing their part in bringing multiple farmed fish species closer to precision nutrition, according to Alltech’s global manager of aquacu…

FoodTechBangladesh, a €6 million, four-year cooperation between Dutch and Bangladeshi companies which aims to develop the sustainable growth of the Bangladeshi aquaculture sector, has been launched today.

A new discovery may help combat saltwater intrusion in estuaries, including in the Mekong Delta, where the increasingly frequent phenomenon is putting thousands of aquaculture operators at risk.

A range of initiatives from US soy producers have been integral to the transformation of China’s aquaculture sector from traditional rural polyculture to modern methods, thereby inspiring the industry’s phenomenal growth…

On August 19, executive members of the Ghana Aquaculture Society, led by the president, Jennifer Sodji-Tagbor, visited Flosell Farms at Sogakope to mark the beginning of an internship programme for Ghanaian aquaculture g…

Researchers with Auburn University in the United States are exploring and overcoming the barriers to adopting aquaponics in food deserts by focusing on design decisions.

Catfish growers in the United States had sales of $421 million during 2021, up 12 percent from $377 million the previous year, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistical Service – and researchers from multiple…

A workshop to improve fish health in Nigeria’s catfish and tilapia industries took place at the University of Ibadan (UI) this week.

An Auburn University research team has become the first to map a high-quality genome assembly of the blue catfish - one of the keystone species of the US aquaculture industry.

General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria, has called on the country’s catfish farmers to enforce a minimum sales price to prevent them losing money.

Although the main market for catfish in Indonesia is currently lower-middle income consumers, farmers can increase the appeal – and price – of the species by ramping up the production of high quality frozen fillets, acco…

Ananda Malakar, from the Indian state of Odisha, was inspired to start farming Asian catfish after watching a video on a social media platform last June.