A new shrimp production technology developed by a Texas AgriLife Research scientist near Corpus Christi promises to revolutionise how shrimp make it to our tables, through an innovative stacked system.
Information on the culture of the milkfish (Chanos chanos) from the FAO Cultured Aquatic Species Information Programme.
The European research consortia SELFDOTT and ALLOTUNA recently succeeded in controlling the reproduction of the Atlantic bluefin tuna in captivity and began larval rearing work.
Once described as the holy grail of aquaculture, a new breakthrough in cod may be about to change the way we farm fish forever, writes Adam Anson, TheFishSite.
This report from the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, analyses the development of a new generation of environmentally sustainable marine aquaculture systems, which are contained, bio-secure and contaminant-free.
Lives of Nepal's subsistence fish farmers dramatically improved with help from an MU professor, some science and vertical cages, writes Randy Mertens, Missouri University.
According to the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance, the time has come for Canadian aquaculture to escape the ghosts of its past and become a world leader in aquaculture. Adam Anson, writing for TheFishSite, takes a closer look.
Wild salmon are done spawning in the rivers for this year, but a few too many farmed salmon have escaped from their cages, spreading their roe and milt, writes Reidun Lilleholt of Nofima.
Aquaculture history has been made with the announcement that Southern Bluefin Tuna have been successfully spawned in captivity for the first time ever, writes Adam Anson, TheFishSite.
The habitat of the locations where culture takes place is very similar. Galicia (NW Spain) has been taken as a model in this fact sheet produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations to explain how the different systems of mussel...
The fisheries sector in Tanzania has many challenges, such as maintaining market shares of products, little ability to control fish prices in foreign markets, and the high cost of modern technology in the fishing industry, write G.F. Nanyaro Director...
Many may assume that the effects of a few farmed fish escapes to overall wild stocks will be as influential as a drop of water is to the ocean, but figures and statistics now available have put the size of the issue into true perspective, writes Adam...
Huge demand and high prices have led to a booming Asian aquaculture industry, but over in the EU an industry fraught with legislation is beginning to stagnate. Adam Anson, reporting for TheFishSite, discovers how the EU plans to turn this trend aroun...
In 2008, Marine Harvest - the world's largest aquaculture company - succumbed to a devastating annual loss of over 2.8 billion Norwegian Kroner. At the heart of this downfall lies a biological situation in Chile rapidly growing out of control, writes...
Early this year it was reported that Viet Nam had become the world's eighth largest seafood exporter, but behind these tidy headlines lies a mish-mash of inter-related management and environmental issues. In these topsy-turvy financial times will the...
















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