Farming sea cucumbers – known as sea slugs in China – is changing people’s lives, giving rural workers in Madagascar a potential pathway out of poverty.
As aquaculture grows as an economic engine, consumers, seafood buyers, NGOs and governments are pushing to assess and rate farms’ environmental performance. Establishing clear measurements remains a challenge.
The new Global Estimates of Modern Slavery report released by the International Labour Organization indicates that 24.9 million workers at any given time in 2016 were in modern slavery. One in 10 of those workers around the world was working in the fishing and agriculture industries.
Shrimp farm design improvements like reservoirs and recirculation canals can help small-scale shrimp farmers protect their infrastructure and improve production in flood-prone areas of India and elsewhere.
Group certification can streamline the auditing process, saving farmers time and money while improving economic conditions for all participants. It also has the potential to cause rifts among competitors.
The electrical conductivity of water is frequently measured in aquaculture systems and taken as an indicator of the degree of mineralization (total ion concentration) of water.
The electrical conductivity of water, usually called specific conductance or simply conductivity, is an important property of water frequently measured in aquaculture systems, and provides an assessment of the total concentration of dissolved ions in water.
A five-year study in Canada aims to provide more answers about warmer waters with lower oxygen levels and a way for farmed fish producers to adapt to climate change.
Some Maine lobster fishermen are turning to aquaculture in a quest to diversify and give defunct lobster pounds a second chance to produce local seafood.
Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration should have little effect on rising alkalinity concentration in aquaculture systems. Climate change is of greater concern in freshwater aquaculture than is an increase in alkalinity.
The economic and environmental performance of tilapia biofloc technology systems are compared against other conventional tilapia grow-out production systems, highlighting the merits of BFT as a competitive and sustainable alternative low-cost intensive feedlot technology.
Science tells us that domesticated livestock and fowl cannot begin to address our world’s near-term protein needs, and that farming fish is our best option. Getting more public support is critical to the success of aquaculture and our planet.
Chambo Fisheries, one of the world’s largest tilapia biofloc tank farms and the largest in Africa, has developed its own, on-farm production of specialized feeds and procedures to optimize feed applications and feeding rates.
Ocean "hot spots," UCSB researchers have determined, provide enough space to produce 15 billion metric tons of finfish annually, more than 100 times the current global seafood consumption.
Chambo Fisheries, the world’s largest tilapia biofloc tank farm and the largest tank farm in Africa, has a multi-cohort, sequential, continuous production schedule.
Egypt is the third-largest tilapia producer globally, after China and Indonesia, and accounts for about 80 percent of African production of farmed tilapia. Many of the reasons for Egypt’s successful development of its important tilapia industry could be applied to the rest of African continent.