Tilapia / Cichlids

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”.

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.

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.

A detailed breakdown of the impact that Covid-19 has had on Ghana’s fish farmers has been presented to the country’s fisheries minister.

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.

Plans to promote Ghana’s aquaculture industry may have been postponed due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but the organisers are optimistic that an inaugural event will go ahead next year instead.

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) has translated its shrimp, tilapia, and tropical marine finfish Standards into Indonesian to help more farmers in the country work towards more responsible practices.

Covid-19 has created a further setbacks for Ghana’s aquaculture industry, just when it started recovering from the losses encountered as a result of the ISKNV outbreak on Lake Volta.

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 o…

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 …