Freshwater fish

Mining has left some of South America’s remote tribes exposed to damaging toxins in their traditional catch. Now, a community aquaculture project is helping the Wayana people avoid ingesting contaminated fish.

The aquafeed industry needs to “think out of the box to find growth,” according to a new report, How to Succeed in Aqua Feed, which has been published by Rabobank today.

Bacteriophages offer a novel sustainable alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture, according to Proteon Pharmaceuticals – a start-up that’s looking to break into the commercial aquaculture sphere.

A Ghanaian project that uses nutrients in wastewater to help improve catfish growth has been gaining considerable traction over the summer.

In troubled economic times, finding food for Zimbabwe’s overflowing prison population has posed both human rights and security challenges. But a new government-backed project is making use of the country’s considerable a…

A number of pilot plants that aim to demonstrate how dual land use for aquaculture and photovoltaics can solve Vietnam’s growing demands for land and energy are currently being established along the Mekong.

Obtaining reliable power for changing water is a perennial problem for the fish farmers of the Niger Delta – but for some installing solar-powered pumps is proving a cost-effective solution.

The Colombian authorities have granted Spring Genetics a licence to import a new high performance tilapia strain in a bid to reinvigorate the country's aquaculture sector.

Selective breeding programmes have significant potential to make tilapia more resistant to Streptococcus agalactiae, according to newly published research.

Successful disease management methods developed in salmon are being piloted in shrimp, tilapia and pangasius farming in Indonesia.

Leaders of Ghana’s aquaculture industry recently held a consultation with the influential Association of Ghana Industries, principally in a bid to overcome problems facing tilapia farmers on Lake Volta.

Farmers in several parts of Uganda have been recognised for their outstanding performance in the country’s first ever aquaponics farming awards ceremony.

Market forecasters estimate that the sector will reach $336 million by 2026.

The use of aquaculture-derived waste products to grow secondary crops – such as used in biofloc systems or aquaponics – can increase profits by more than 20 percent, as some of the leading proponents of this field explai…

East of India’s populous city of Kolkata, the largest natural sewage treatment works in the world also supports a thriving regional carp farming industry. But the city’s relentless growth is threatening the wetlands, alo…

One of Mozambique’s pioneering tilapia farmers has been thrown a lifeline after his entire stock was wiped out by a tropical cyclone.

The first confirmed case of tilapia lake virus (TiLV) in the USA emphasises the need for producers to ensure biosecurity is a top priority, according to a leading US tilapia breeder.

A new suspect has emerged in the search for the causes of the massive disease outbreak that has been affecting tilapia on Lake Volta in Ghana.

Research into ways of assessing the welfare of farmed lumpfish has been awarded a prize by 5m Publishing, The Fish Site’s parent company.

Based on interviews with some of the earliest developers and adopters of biofloc, including Djames Lim from Singapore (CEO of the Lim Shrimp Organization), Khoo Eng Wah from Malaysia (managing director of Sepang Today Aq…