Tilapia / Cichlids

African Blue, a Kenyan tilapia producer, could offer a model for the development of freshwater cage aquaculture across Africa.

Using sea water to create coastal wetlands in which crops including fish and shellfish can be grown is a relatively new concept, but Yanik Nyberg, founder of Seawater Solutions, believes that it can help to revolutionise food production and biodiversity, while…

Fresh insights into which species of finfish – and in which regions – are poised for the greatest growth rates in the coming years was the topic of a discussion between The Fish Site and Rabobank’s Gorjan Nikolik this week.

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 both improving her own production and to he…

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

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.

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.

Fish farming is getting increasingly widespread in Zimbabwe, thanks to a joint drive to promote it.

Shrimp industry veteran Dr Bill McGraw has overcome numerous challenges to establish a unique organic shrimp and tilapia production facility in Panama.

Fish farmers practising the Moyna aquaculture model, which was developed by the local authorities in West Bengal, claim that the government is ignoring their plight.

Devonian Capital focuses on investing in – and advising on – the establishment and operation of land-based aquaculture projects with a strong technology component. The five-strong team contains an international mixture of people with hands-on aquaculture, inve…

An initial project to pave the way for modern selective breeding of tilapia strains farmed in East Africa has been completed recently. Genetic tools were developed, and a detailed analysis of the region’s farmed strains was carried out.