Mussels

A novel offshore fish farming system has taken a step towards commercialisation, following the completion of a successful feasibility study.

A clutch of new aquaculture initiatives – largely relating to seaweeds, bivalves and RAS finfish production – are putting Dorset on the aquaculture map, according to Martin Sutcliffe, aquaculture and fisheries developmen…

An innovative aquaculture structure, called the shellfish tower, offers a promising means to farm shellfish and other species in exposed offshore locations, according to the results of a recent trial.

Naua Lakai lives on Vava’u, one of the 36 inhabited islands of Tonga. She dropped out of teachers’ college when she became a mother and is now one of the most successful pearl farmers on her island.

A seafood pressure group is calling on the US Congress to support the expansion of the country’s aquaculture sector in order to benefit the American economy, industries and communities.

Plans to launch a range of “vegetables” that in fact contain 100 percent seafood are one step closer after Bulgarian startup Nonions* announced €1.04 million seed funding today.

The UK Government has announced cash grants for seafood businesses, including shellfish farmers, who have been impacted by export restrictions to Europe.

Nicki and John Holmyard, founders of the UK's largest mussel farming company, Offshore Shellfish, explain why post-Brexit regulations are posing a grave risk to their business.

A drive to produce a greater volume of species that are associated with low trophic levels in aquaculture systems “may be unhelpful” for making the sector more sustainable.

Bivalve mollusc farming and microalgal farming enterprises provide viable, profitable and sustainable alternatives to all the industrial carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies being promoted today.

A project to assess the US aquaculture industry’s economic viability, impact and management measures – in a bid to reduce the country’s $16.8 billion seafood trade deficit – has been awarded $1 million in grant funding.

Even before the first ropes are in the water setting your own mussel farming company can be quite an adventure, as Judith Brown, has discovered.

A way of creating ‘designer’ algae that could increase the efficiency of production of shellfish larvae for the aquaculture industry has been developed by scientists in Scotland.

Applications are being sought for a new role that aims to cultivate, develop, connect and promote aquaculture innovation in Ireland.

Freshwater pearl culture is providing a new livelihood for several thousand migrants who have returned to India’s Odisha State during the pandemic-induced lockdown.

Membership of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) consortium has grown by around 25 percent in the last 12 months as the sector has looked to increase connections, deliver greater adoption of technology, an…

Eight innovative projects to support the sustainable development of the aquaculture sector in Scotland and beyond have received £2.2 million in funding.

In the first instalment of a new series on restorative aquaculture The Fish Site speaks to Sarah Holmyard, head of sales and marketing at Offshore Shellfish, which is developing a large-scale rope-grown mussel f…

Ireland’s mussel and oyster farmers have been promised compensation to make up for drastic declines in sales since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Offshore Shellfish, creators of the UK’s first fully offshore mussel farm, have won Best Aquaculture Company at the 2020 Aquaculture Awards.