Tilapia / Cichlids

A new study suggests that tilapia lake virus can be transmitted from parents to offspring.

Acceso El Salvador has signed a deal to become the Central American country’s exclusive distributor of Spring Genetics tilapia fingerlings.

How the Nigerian taste for catfish is spreading to Ghana – where some think it might even replace tilapia as the country’s favourite fish.

The hyper-intensive production of tropical species might be a hard sell in the US, but a handful of companies have developed systems that have made successful leaps in the sector.

The development of a sustainable aquaculture sector can play an important role in providing livelihoods for people living around Lake Victoria, according to Kyra Hoevenaars, AquaBioTech Group’s project manager in the Vic…

Tilapia producers on Lake Volta are calling for urgent action by the Ghanaian government to deal with the very high level of fish mortalities, which they believe have been caused by the operations of a Chinese fish farm,…

Cycle Farms, a French-owned biotechnology company, has opened its first insect meal production facility in Ghana.

A team of researchers based in Singapore claim to be close to their goal of developing a strain of tilapia that can thrive in salt water.

A proposed levy on imported fish might stimulate Zimbabwe’s local aquaculture industry to grow at a faster rate – but it might also bring its own challenges.

Pharmaq has formed a strategic partnership with Colombia’s largest tilapia producer, Piscicola Botero, in a bid to improve productivity and sustainability in the tilapia value chain in the country.

Hopes for the development of an effective vaccine to protect tilapia from Streptococcus have been given a boost following the publication of the results of a new study.

Representatives of Ghana’s tilapia sector see signs for optimism, now that a Chinese-owned tilapia production site has been mothballed.

A three-year project which aims to increase the productivity of the Ghanaian tilapia sector by 20 percent for cage and 15 percent for pond farmers has recently been launched.

Garlic (Allium sativum) has been shown to improve tilapia growth and immunity in a new study undertaken in Pakistan.

Jennifer Sodji, who runs one of the biggest fish farms and the leading aquaculture association in Ghana, outlines how political intervention is essential to secure the sector's growth.

Brazilian tilapia production grew by 11.9 percent to reach 400,000 tonnes in 2018, according to new statistics.

The founder of one of Canada’s most ambitious aquaponics projects has decided to grow cannabis, rather than salad plants, in conjunction with tilapia.

Efua Konyim Okai reports from James Camp Prison, Accra, on an aquaculture training initiative that is going to be rolled out across the country’s jails.

Every prison in Ghana is due to have its own fish farm as part of a governmental initiative that kicked off this week.

A growing number of fish farmers from across Africa are putting pressure on their governments to take action against imported Chinese tilapia.