Combining the use of innovative technologies and lessons learned from the terrestrial livestock sector will enable huge improvements in the aquaculture indsutry, according to Laurent Genet, chief strategy officer at Nutreco.
Interest in tank-based shrimp production systems has been increasing in recent years in North America and Europe, while it's also slowly gaining traction in tropical regions too.
Embracing hapa nets in lieu of tank culture methods can help sea cucumber producers reduce labour costs and give them an economic edge – allowing them to sustainably produce early-juvenile sea cucumbers for grow-out.
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.
The potential of the seaweed farming and processing sectors in the development of thread, fertiliser, bio-plastics and leather substitutes is massive, according to Chung Ngin Zhun, co-founder of Rhodomaxx – a Malaysian seaweed startup.
GPS Group has been an integral force in reducing the Ecuadorian shrimp farming sector’s reliance on diesel-fired generators, and are on the cusp of launching the world’s first carbon zero certification for farm-raised shrimp.
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.
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted different countries very differently – as illustrated by the stark differences in the performance of the shrimp sectors of Ecuador and Vietnam.
Catfish production in Nigeria is hugely popular – with a booming domestic market as well as strong export sales – and currently accounts for over 80 percent of the country’s aquaculture output.
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.
Despite severe economic challenges over the years, the US catfish farming industry is now advancing again thanks to new technologies and production strategies - including the use of split ponds.
The EU’s attempts to diversity its aquaculture production have met decidedly mixed results to date, but aquaculture producers have a number of overlooked, yet impressive, native candidates to contend with.
Over a decade ago, Mohammed Kyari regularly fished in Lake Chad – a large and shallow lake whose waters and surrounding territory span parts of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria’s Borno State – until 2009 when the Boko Haram insurgency started to terrorise the…
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 of people with hands-on aquaculture, inve…
A new diagnostic tool that can detect a range of aquatic pathogens, including DIV-1, between two and four weeks before clinical signs are apparent to shrimp farmers, has recently been launched by Genics.
