Its annual production of 60,000 tonnes of mussels makes St Andrews the world’s largest producer of the bivalves, according to the Chilean company’s former farm general manager, Felix Howard.
Brandon Hargraves and Alaeddine Aichouch reflect on the constraints facing temperate seaweed-producing regions and argue that scalable tropical red seaweed will be central to meeting the sector’s growing biomass demands.
Over the course of two decades, Ferme Marine de Mahébourg has managed to establish an expansive red drum farm in the lagoon in Mauritius, proving that aquaculture can thrive alongside tourism.
What sounds like a terrible idea – farming tropical shrimp in chilly northern Germany – is exactly what HanseGarnelen is turning into a high-tech, almost-zero-carbon showcase for “German shrimp”.
