Sensor Globe’s robust, mobile units provide farmers with real time data on the conditions facing their fish at some of the most important moments in their lives.
French startup Agriloops has recently launched its first commercial-scale saline aquaponics facility, in a bid to produce environmentally responsible shrimp and vegetables for the local market.
Assam's carp farmers have been left reeling by the floods which swept through the Indian state at the end May, forcing many to question the future of their profession.
Mohamed El Gendy manages a 600-tonne capacity carp farm in Erbil, northern Iraq, which might be one of the country’s most promising aquaculture operations.
Scotland’s Firth of Forth Lobster Hatchery is set to start producing native oysters too, following its acquisition by Balanced Horizon - a charity that has given it a new name and a new lease of life.
Indonesian startup Sambung Asa believes that their novel farming system – which includes Gracilaria, milkfish and black tiger prawns – can help to breath new life into ponds abandoned by shortsighted shrimp farmers.
Mohamed Elshenawy, project manager at Gulf Union, has dramatically increased the farm’s tilapia output – transforming it into one of the leading aquaculture operations in Saudi Arabia.
Fish Welfare Initiative is offering $100,000 to a team who can develop and provide a publicly-available satellite-based system to monitor water quality in India’s carp ponds.
Arapaima have long been touted as a promising genus of fish for farming, but there are still some major research hurdles to be cleared before they can be produced efficiently enough to be economically viable.
Richard Knuckey is convinced that giant grouper is one of the premium finfish species best suited to RAS production in the West – the question now is whether someone is able to make this potential pay.
Dr Manoj Sharma is not only the pioneer of shrimp farming in Gujarat is but also credited with creating livelihoods for thousands of farmers who had been struggling to grow crops in the state’s salinised land.
Aquantic Fish Farm, in Saudi Arabia, combines tilapia production with crop cultivation, while there are also plans to produce rainbow trout in a RAS unit – as Youssef Eltahawy, the farm’s technical manager, explains.
