A family search for chemical-free food has become a commercial aquaponics venture producing tilapia and vegetables, with export plans stretching from Zimbabwe to Europe.
The €4.8 million EU-funded Cure4Aqua project is helping to improve the health and welfare of farmed fish while reducing the aquaculture industry’s dependence on pharmaceuticals.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the University of Plymouth have launched a new research initiative, marking 15 years of collaboration focused on improving fish resilience and welfare in sustainable…
Recent trials demonstrate that a new prebiotic developed by GreenSage Prebiotics dramatically improves FCRs and survival rates in farmed shrimp and salmon, paving the way for commercial launch.
Streptococcus agalactiae and S. iniae are two of the most devastating bacteria to impact the warm freshwater fish farming sector around the world – causing diseases that can lead to 80 percent…
Following extensive and thorough evaluation, the use of laser technology has been shown to be effective for the removal of salmon lice whilst being gentle on the hosts, according to Cermaq, which…
The technology can destroy up to 95 percent of salmon lice larvae present in the water supply for a closed containment aquaculture system, according to the Norwegian engineer who is developing the…
Ten years after returning to Vietnam, Loc Tran, founder and CEO of ShrimpVet, is looking for ways to help farmers adopt more progressive and efficient practices in order to survive the current…
Enos Were, the managing director of Jewlet Fish Farms, is a pioneer who has transformed East Africa’s aquaculture industry by training countless fish farmers, researchers and government officials, as…
Carla Phillips Savage, who is currently an associate professor at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, discusses her journey to become the only certified aquatic veterinarian in…
Scientists from Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast may have found a new way to treat heart health and immune function in humans after identifying key hormone reactions in oysters.
Pat Reynolds, one of the world’s preeminent lumpfish researchers, believes that – despite a number of welfare issues and a slight dip in their popularity – the species merits a prominent place in the…
Jim Treasurer, co-editor of a new comprehensive publication on sea lice, looks back on over three decades of working to combat aquaculture’s best known and most costly ectoparasites.
The environmental impacts of aquaculture are often in the spotlight. The need for sustainable practices is now firmly embedded in the minds of the public, governments and industry – but this…
Asia’s shrimp farmers need to reboot their attitude to biosecurity and stocking densities, argues Robins McIntosh, in a follow-on to Monday’s article on the dangers of disinfection*.
The overuse of disinfectants, coupled with farmers’ willingness to exceed their systems’ carrying capacities, have been key factors in the downfall of the Asian shrimp sector over the last decade,…
Flexible ingredient formulations, enzymes, optimised microbiomes and genetics are playing their part in bringing multiple farmed fish species closer to precision nutrition, according to Alltech’s…
Ecuador’s relatively extensive shrimp farming techniques have ensured that their shrimp are robust enough to cope with the presence of pathogens that would be disastrous in most parts of Asia –…
A new paper argues that there’s an urgent need to improve understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in host resistance to whitespot syndrome virus (WSSV) and sea lice – two of the greatest…
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