China

Cumulative total fishmeal production during the first eight months of 2023 was down by approximately 28 percent compared to the the same period in 2022.

China is experiencing a boom in novel farming techniques, with low-cost “greenhouse” farms and recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) both gaining significant traction in recent years.

Despite being dominated by the production of a single commodity, shrimp farming is a remarkably disparate business with a huge variety of business models and production techniques.

IFFO reports that international fishmeal and fish oil production during the first five months of 2023 was down by more than 10 percent and 22 percent respectively, compared to the period through May…

Guolian (Yiyang) Crayfish Breeding Biotechnology Co, which is located in China, recently became the first crayfish farm in the world to earn ASC certification for responsible seafood farming.

Market analysis by the IFFO has revealed that China’s marine ingredients and aquafeed production levels have decreased since last year, but offcuts could help to fill the gap.

A research team led by Prof Li Fuhua from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has provided new insights into the genetic mechanism of divergent thermo-tolerance in…

For decades China has been the world’s largest exporter of seafood but, in the space of 12 months – following a 30 percent rise in imports – it has become a net importer, heralding a genuinely…

Following the launch of a new tilapia welfare assessment programme in China, IQC’s Conglong Li and Sisi Xie explain why they are working with FAI to raise awareness of its importance – both for…

The shrimp sector is in for a difficult year, with many of the smaller farmers likely to go out of business, according to Rabobank’s latest Global Aquaculture Update, which was published this week.

Though many are still at the pilot stage and haven’t been proven at an industrial scale, analysis from Spheric Research suggests that indoor shrimp farming has huge potential to transform the wider…

A Sino-Australian project to use seaweed as an alternative to plastic packaging, led by Dr Jianhua Zhang, from Melbourne’s Victoria University, has recently been launched.

The world’s first industrial-scale facility to produce FeedKind, a protein that has been developed to replace the use of fishmeal in aquafeeds, has switched on.

Although the $4 billion giant river prawn (Macrobrachium ronsebergii) sector has largely stagnated over the last decade, new breeding programmes could help pave the way for its resurgence.

Though Asia already leads the world in the traditional seafood trade, it is poised to gain global dominance in the nascent alternative seafood segment.

A range of initiatives from US soy producers have been integral to the transformation of China’s aquaculture sector from traditional rural polyculture to modern methods, thereby inspiring the…

Recent genetic advances are being heralded as possible game-changers for the tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) farming sector, potentially bringing a welcome renaissance to a sector that has fallen far…

When I was contemplating a topic for this month’s article, I was reminded of a question my daughter asked me several years ago: “Can we feed our dogs a vegetarian diet?”