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Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) present a promising pathway for sustainable seafood production, yet there are still numerous uncertainties – both for operators and potential investors – which urgently need to be overcome.

Mazen Elsawaf, technical director of Maher fish farm in Saudi Arabia and a strong advocate of RAS, represents a new generation of ambitious young Egyptians in aquaculture.

The meteoric growth of Ecuador’s shrimp production has finally come to the halt due to low shrimp prices and weak Chinese demand, but analysts expect the shrimp world’s export leaders to make more inroads into the US market.

Independent sustainable shrimp producers will go out of business unless retailers are willing to pay more for their product, according to Jessica Rivera Rodriguez, sales director at MER Seafood, one of Honduras’s largest privately owned shrimp companies.

Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing incomparable growth rates, and experts expect these to continue apace, as it bids to finally fulfil its aquaculture potential.

Times have rarely been tougher for shrimp farmers in India, but Balasubramaniam V, general secretary of the Prawn Farmers Federation of India, believes that the industry can transform its fortunes through a combination of improved genetics, the use of native s…

Aquasend’s low maintenance water quality sensors are being used by an increasingly wide range of international aquaculture producers, as CEO, Kristin Elliott, explains.

Mohamed Salah Ibrahim runs Al Sahaba Hatchery, one of the oldest tilapia hatcheries in Kafr El-Sheikh, and continues the legacy of his father, Dr Salah Ibrahim, one of Egypt’s pioneers of mono-sex tilapia production.

Coral Vita is employing cutting edge- aquaculture methods to protect the world’s coral reefs, in a bid to protect these vital ecosystems against the ravages of climate change.

Akin Showemimo, widely known as “Akinfish”, is the director of Asher Royal Produce Limited, a company that produces its own catfish, tilapia and heterotis, and also helps to equip and train other farmers, both in Nigeria and further afield.

Gabriel Thomas Kimeu, 27, is a computer science graduate who set up a RAS tilapia, catfish and ornamental fish farm in eastern Kenya and has major ambitions to grow.