Freshwater fish

ASC side event at UN Ocean Conference highlights the role aquaculture plays in achieving the SDGs

Climate change NGO

28 June 2022

Avant Meats raises $10.8 million for its cell-cultured seafood

Sustainability Technology & equipment

27 June 2022

Women in aquaculture Women in aquaculture: Azellia Alma Shafira

Husbandry Water quality

27 June 2022

Azellia Alma Shafira, co-founder and CEO of Banoo Indonesia, talks about her journey to bring affordable technology to boost small-scale fish farming productivity and her vision to help build a more inclusive aquaculture industry.

Can GIFT gain ground in eastern India?

Health Husbandry

24 June 2022

Despite its impressive growth rate and resistance to disease, the GIFT strain of tilapia is yet to fulfil its true potential in Odisha, according to several key players in the Indian state’s aquaculture sector.

What RAS innovations will take the industry to fully circular fish production?

Feed ingredients Water quality

22 June 2022

Can aquaculture businesses expect a “waterfall of capital”?

Feed ingredients Economics

22 June 2022

While a “waterfall of capital” might come into the aquaculture sector in the near future, there’s a danger that it might not be sufficient to grow the sector in line with demands for blue foods.

The farm that seeks to safeguard a nation’s food security

Husbandry Sustainability

21 June 2022

Pacific Ocean Culture, which specialises in giant freshwater prawns and tilapia farming, is already the biggest aquaculture player in the South Pacific and now aims to triple production to support Fijian government goals.

Aquaculture OPEX set to rise by 300 percent

Feed ingredients Sustainability

20 June 2022

Meet the farmer Meet the farmer: Leakey Amolloh

Husbandry Hatcheries

20 June 2022

Leakey Amolloh is a director of Kings Beta Fish Farm, which produces tilapia and catfish fingerlings and also grows out fish to table size for sale in Kenya. He has plans to expand the business substantially in the coming years.

NOAA is welcoming pre-proposals for Saltonstall-Kennedy grant

Consumer Competitions

17 June 2022

Study backs value of Streptococcosis-resistant tilapia

Bacterial diseases Breeding & genetics

16 June 2022

US Aquaculture Society recognises contribution of MSU researcher

Economics Awards

14 June 2022

Study aims to improve tilapia slaughtering techniques

Welfare Processing

14 June 2022

The Brazilian aquaculture industry urgently needs to improve the methods used for slaughtering fish, according to a new study.

SEAFDEC lab in the Philippines receives ISO accreditation

Nutrition Diagnostics

12 June 2022

FAO's key forum on aquaculture has its first post-pandemic meeting

Husbandry Events

10 June 2022

Deep Branch locks in £4.8 million to help scale its fermentation platform

Feed ingredients Sustainability

10 June 2022

Generation recirculation The case for modular, responsible RAS

Husbandry Water quality

10 June 2022

Ramon Perez, co-founder of Alpha Aqua, produces RAS units, with a twist – focusing mainly on designing modular systems for both cold and warmwater species.

Shrimp and salmon show their strengths in new global seafood trade map

Consumer Economics

8 June 2022

A new edition of Rabobank’s World Seafood Map shows 55 trade flows that are each valued at over $400 million per year and an additional 19 trade flows that are valued at over $200 million, illustrating the international nature and diversity of seafood trade.

Meet the farmer Meet the farmer: Kenechukwu Nwobodo

Husbandry Open farming systems

6 June 2022

32-year-old Kenechukwu Anthony Nwobodo set up and runs a catfish farming company, DieuMerci , in Lagos, Nigeria.

Hatch's Innovation Studio programme is accepting applications for its fourth Irish cohort

Sustainability Technology & equipment

3 June 2022

Plants may hold the key for aquaponics microbiome

Biosecurity Water quality

2 June 2022

The Lutz Report Is triploidy still the only practical option for sterile aquaculture stocks?

Genomics Biosecurity

1 June 2022

Triploidy is widely used in aquaculture to improve growth rates, reduce possible impacts of farmed animals on wild aquatic ecosystems and enhance product quality, but there’s room for improvement and for alternative technologies.

May 2022

Women in aquaculture Women in aquaculture: Jenny Soria Nina

Welfare Sustainability

30 May 2022

Peruvian Jenny Soria Nina develops technologies to facilitate the growth of the aquaculture sector. One of her recent successes is a mobile hatchery designed to produce scallops and other aquatic species.

ASC shakes up its board with new chair and five new members

Welfare NGO

25 May 2022

Deep Branch eyes Iceland expansion

Feed ingredients Climate change

25 May 2022

The pros and cons of pond vs cage aquaculture in Kenya

Husbandry Water quality

25 May 2022

Kenya’s aquaculture sector must grow to improve the country’s food security. This article looks into the pros and cons of cage versus pond farming, with insights from fish farmers in western and central regions, and provides recommendations for ways to help th…

Meet the farmer Meet the farmer: Yit Tung

Husbandry Water quality

23 May 2022

Yit Tung – who farms mud crabs, shrimp and tilapia in Malaysia – has no regrets about swapping a steady job as an engineer in the oil and gas sector for starting up his own aquaculture venture, RAS Aquaculture.

Researchers design an open-source, “plug and play” digital aquaculture system

Husbandry Water quality

23 May 2022

Peru and Bolivia open fish breeding lab in conservation push

Fish stocks Sustainability

22 May 2022

Plant-based molecules show promise for aquaculture vaccine development

Functional feeds Disease

18 May 2022

All about MENA Insights from Israel’s number-one fish farm

Husbandry Broodstock management

18 May 2022

Dagón – Israel’s pioneering hatchery and leading fish farmer – offers a tantalising glimpse of how aquaculture in the MENA region is evolving and of the emerging species that have the greatest commercial potential.

New partnerships in Kenya’s tilapia farming sector

Husbandry Sustainability

14 May 2022

Aquaculture experts to discuss role of synthetic biology in aquafeed

Feed ingredients Health

11 May 2022

Aqua UK hailed as "bumper show"

Technology & equipment Production systems

9 May 2022

Women in aquaculture Women in aquaculture: Pauline Nakyewa

Husbandry People

9 May 2022

Pauline Nakyewa runs her family’s farm in rural Uganda while working as an aquaculture professional to help rural fish farmers and poor communities.

Scotland to host 2024 GOAL Conference

Sustainability Events

9 May 2022

Researchers pinpoint how Nigeria can meet its aquaculture target

Feed ingredients Water quality

6 May 2022

Austria’s aquaculture sector gets EU funding boost

Sustainability Production systems

6 May 2022

Have your say in BAP’s new standards for RAS

Welfare Water quality

6 May 2022

We might be having the wrong conversation about tech and aquaculture

Sustainability Technology & equipment

6 May 2022

Aquaculture’s technology spotlight tends to focus on offshore cages, satellites, AI sensors and recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for major finfish species – but this narrative overlooks aquatech’s ability to revolutionise small-scale production and safe…