Shrimp producers and processors must learn from the salmon sector by diversifying their product range and increasing demand if they are to avoid a prolonged price crash, according to a new report.

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Rabobank’s latest report on the shrimp sector, which has been released t...

Applications for a business development programme designed to help commercial fishermen diversify in to the aquaculture sector are now open.

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Maine’s Island Institute is accepting applications for its 2020 Aquaculture Business Development (ABD) programme and is looking...

Danielle Blacklock, who was recently appointed director of NOAA’s Office of Aquaculture, talks to The Fish Site about how to ensure the US develops a sustainable offshore aquaculture sector, what the country can learn from other nations and how the sector is coping wit...

For a truly sustainable fishery, more needs to be considered than just the abundance of the harvested species. Harvesting even abundant species can create indirect extinction cascades down the food web that can harm the long-term economic and ecological sustainability...

How the DFO implementation of the Marshall decision dealt a blow to both Indigenous self-governance and community-based fishing.

It’s been two months since Sipekne’katik First Nation launched its own self-regulated lobster fishery off the Saulnierville wharf in Southwes...

The living natural resources in the Indo-Pacific is taken to be one of the richest assets of the Indo-Pacific and constitutes of a prospective asset to feed the population of the Indo-Pacific region. Many livelihoods are also dependent upon these living resources of th...

A recent review in the journal Antibiotics has outlined the potential treatment and preventative potential of bacteriophages in aquaculture, arguing that phages could be successfully replace antibiotic treatments if the appropriate safety and regulatory challenges are...

The joint venture company, called Touchlight Aquaculture, will - according to a press release issued today - "utilise Touchlight Genetics’ innovative DNA-based Doggybone platform to develop new vaccines".

The technology "provides a unique, synthetic DNA vector system in...

Common Bacterial Pathogens (Aeromonas,Vibrio, andEdwardsiella):

Common bacterial pathogens (see Bacterial Diseases of Fish), Aeromonas hydrophila, A salmonicida, Vibrio spp, Edwardsiella ictaluri, E tarda, Streptococcus spp, and other related gram-positive cocci, can al...

"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed”--Mahatma Gandhi 

India has a vast coastline, and hence, it supports a thriving fisheries sector. Although available in abundance, this renewable source of food can collapse rapidly due to u...