Abagold in Exporter of the Year Final
SOUTH AFRICA - Abagold Limited, a leading land-based aquaculture company based in Hermanus in South Africa, is one of the finalists in the Cape Town Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Exporter of the year.

South Africa Gets to Grips with Aquaculture
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa is slowly starting to invest in the fishing industry – with many new developments focused in the Eastern Cape.

Expansion for East Cape Aquaculture
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa's East Cape could soon rival the Western Cape for aquaculture production following a 7 billion rand investment.

Fish Farms Planned for Karoo
SOUTH AFRICA - An Eastern Cape company is planning to farm fish in the middle of South Africa's hot and arid Great Karoo.

Farmed Shellfish, No Risk, says DEAT
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa's Environmental Affairs and Tourism Department has stated that West Coast farmed seafood products were never at risk from possible poisoning.

Expansion at Abalone Farm
Premier Fishing is to invest R40 million (Rand) to expand operations at its abalone aquaculture farm near Gansbaaito.

R1.5 Million Bio-fuels Plant Will Benefits Local Food Producers
PRETORIA - A R1.5 billion investment in a bio-fuels processing facility also hopes to improve food availability for South Africans.

Global Promotion Planned for SA Abalone
SOUTH AFRICA - It's a little known fact that South Africa is a leading supplier of legally-obtained, farmed abalone, but that's about to change.

Fish Industry gets boost from R18m Salmon Project
SOUTH AFRICA - Plans are underway for South Africa's largest land-based fish farm.

Food Riots of the 21st Century
SOUTH AFRICA - The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, according to one of the world’s leading agricultural researchers.

R9.2bn Prawn-Farm Facility for Coega
SOUTH AFRICA - A 1 200-ha high-tech prawn-farming facility that will employ some 11,000 people is to be developed at Coega, following a successful pilot phase. A similar venture is aos planned for Zhanjiang in China, through a partnership agreement.

Fish farming plan to earn income for labourers‘ wives
SOUTH AFRICA - An innovative aquaculture project has been launched to farm fish in the Karoo, using existing reservoirs and dams – and thousands of unemployed women.

Fish farming plan to earn income for labourers‘ wives
SOUTH AFRICA - An innovative project has been launched to farm fish in the Karoo, using existing reservoirs and dams – and thousands of unemployed women.

Government to put R100m in fish farms
SOUTH AFRICA - Government is to invest R100-million next year in six marine fish farming projects, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

A chance to mussel in on aquaculture
SOUTH AFRICA - Fisherman Lindela Makhotyana is up at the crack of dawn. Breathing in the fresh salty ocean air, he engages the seamanship he has acquired, operating his mussel raft and ropes.

Danes arrive with much to show
SOUTH AFRICA - Denmark will present a pavilion comprising seven companies at the forthcoming Fish Africa/Aquaculture Africa 2007 Exhibition, which runs at Cape Town‘s International Convention Centre from 24-26 October

Aquaculture gets a big break
SOUTH AFRICA - Tax breaks, grants, credit and other available fiscal measures will be made available by government to stimulate the local marine aquaculture industry.

Mighty Zambezi threatened by fish disease
SOUTH AFRICA - Zambia is blessed with so many natural resources. Among them the Zambezi River which is a source of water and also home to different kinds of fish species. Fishing and fish production is one of the major activities practiced by the local...

Fish farms help families in Africa hit by AIDS
SOUTH AFRICA - Tiny fish farms have helped 1,200 poor families hit by AIDS in Malawi to raise their incomes and improve their diets in a scheme being expanded to other African nations, a report showed on Monday.

Zambezi Fish Disease Mystery Cracked
SOUTH AFRICA - Scientists have identified the mystery disease that killed fish in parts of the Zambezi River last year.

Marine aquaculture tabled in Eastern Cape
CAPE TOWN – Round-table talks on the development of marine aquaculture in South Africa got under way in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape yesterday.

Aquaculture industry still lagging behind in SA
SOUTH AFRICA - Natural fish and other seafood stocks are plummeting from over exploitation, pollution and climate change.

Deat hosts round table on SA's marine aquaculture policy
SOUTH AFRICA - The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (Deat) will this week host a national stakeholder round table in Port Alfred, in the Eastern Cape, to discuss a revised draft marine aquaculture policy, before gazetting the document....

South Africa: Fishy Deal Puts Smile on Cape Business
SOUTH AFRICA - The South African fishing industry has undergone a major restructuring over the past few years, with traumatic results for those subsistence and commercial fishers who were unable to secure quotas allowing them to harvest SA's dwindling...

Simplicity aids profit and the environment, says research
SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa's aquaculture industry should focus on farming 'simple' creatures, such as molluscs and seaweed, rather than carnivorous fish, says a University of Cape Town researcher.