Yomna Elshamy

With over 30 years of aquaculture experience in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, NAPCO Aqua's CEO, Nabil Kammoun, is developing RAS and biofloc projects in the Kingdom, combining farm design, operational management and a 2,000-tonne pilot farm to strengthen…

Wabil Alshareef, founder and owner of Saudi Arabia’s first rainbow trout facility - the imaginatively titled Trout Fish Farms - outlines his ambitions to produce up to 5,000 tonnes a year.

Fairouz Abbassi is the hatchery manager at Aquaculture Tunisienne, the largest sea bass and sea bream hatchery in North Africa, with an annual production of up to 30 million juveniles.

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.

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.

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…

Mohamed Sameh El-Sayed, who runs Al-Zohour's three tilapia hatcheries in Egypt alongside his father, Engineer Sameh El-Sayed, has faith that the country’s tilapia sector will continue to grow.

Omega Farm in Fujairah is one of pioneers of fish farming in the UAE, combining innovation, sustainability, and a strong focus on research and development.

A project in Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan, aims to produce up to 60,000 tonnes of carp a year, offering economic hope and improved food security in this fragile region.

Lana Fish Company produces tilapia, carp, ornamental fish and even rainbow trout – despite being located in the Saudi Arabian desert – as executive director, Ibrahim Al-Madbouly, explains.

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.

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…

Egypt has huge potential to increase its production of marine species, in sea cages, coastal ponds and well-based inland farms according to Dr Mohamed Abdel Rahim, one of the country’s leading…

Despite the turbulent events that Iraq has witnessed over the past decades, there is still some hope for the country’s tiny aquaculture sector, according to Hatim Al-Hamdani, the head of the Rawafed…

Dr Ahmed Nasr Allah and Mahmoud Rashad discuss how WorldFish’s Empowering Women Fish Retailers in Egypt (EWFIRE) project has overcome challenges to help improve the livelihoods of female fish…

Despite scepticism from some parts of the mainstream aquaculture sector, aquaponics can make a meaningful contribution to global food security, as well as a flourishing business, according to Dr…

Dr Hamada Elkady, executive director of Delta Farm, believes that the Egyptian desert has the potential to be a successful shrimp producing region.

After gaining her master’s in aquaculture in Gran Canaria, Nourhan Ali has gained an impressive range of farming experience in Egypt and is now a consultant for the Saudi Aquaculture Society.

An Egyptian team has succeeded in developing a smart device to estimate the feed intake required for each tank on a fish farm, helping improve productivity and water quality.

Ahmed Al Sharaki is one of the pioneers of aquaculture in Egypt, who has worked in the public and private sectors in mono-sex tilapia culture for four decades. He currently runs the two Almadinah…