aquaculture

Every yellowtail snapper excretes ammonia. It cannot help doing so; it is a metabolic inevitability, the nitrogen-rich byproduct of a fish eating, breathing, living at commercial density in a tank on Virginia Key, Florida. In a conventional aquaculture operation, that ammonia accumulates in the effluent water until it becomes a problem, sometimes a serious one, for the marine environment downstre…

UMBC has secured $1.5 million in congressional funding to establish the UMBC Center for Precision Aquaculture, an interdisciplinary effort aimed at revolutionizing land-based fish production through real-time monitoring and smart technology.

By Aquaculture Magazine Editorial Team Modern aquaculture, particularly tilapia farming, is experiencing a period of high technical demands. Rather than merely seeking to increase production volumes, producers now seek stability, predictability, and consistent results that allow them to plan their operations with less risk. In this context, the maturation and reproduction phase has become one [&#…

By Hailia The new study asked more than 1,500 people from the UK, Sweden, and Germany about their attitudes towards food products made from seafood sidestreams. The survey shows 74% of respondents have a positive or neutral attitude towards eating food made from filleting sidestreams, pointing to new growth opportunities for processors European consumers are […]

• The organism will play an important role in the development of the America First Seafood Strategy to promote production, marketing, sale and export of US fishery and aquaculture products. United States (US) Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins recently announced the creation of the new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Seafood. This first […]

Applications are now open for the African Women in Science (AWIS) Program 2027 & 2028, a prestigious initiative by the African Center for Aquatic Research and Education (ACARE). This highly competitive program is designed to empower African women scientists working in freshwater systems, aquatic ecosystems, fisheries, aquaculture, and related environmental research. The AWIS Program provides […] …

By Coldep First scientific demonstration of norovirus extraction from seawater by vacuum flotation. As part of the NoVLess project, conducted with a consortium of six scientific and institutional partners, French water treatment company Coldep has demonstrated that its VAL AQUA technology reduces norovirus levels in seawater by 95% in just 120 minutes. The experiments, carried […]

By Word Aquaculture Society (African Chapter) Women are central to fisheries and aquaculture value chains in Africa, fulfilling critical roles across producing, harvesting, processing, trading, and retail, and often underpinning household food security and local economies. Women comprise a significant proportion — particularly in post-harvest segments — where their labour adds value, reduces loss…

By Aquaculture without Frontiers In the television/streaming series Better Call Saul, the character Jimmy McGill often references far-flung places like Tajikistan to make his stories sound more impressive—more worldly, more convincing. But audiences recognise what’s really happening: the story is doing the work, not the substance. There is none of that in the story of […]

Dr. Rachel June Ravago-Gotanco from the Marine Science Institute of the University of the Philippines-Diliman presents her study on sea cucumbers and their implications for aquaculture and fishery management and conservation on April 22, 2026, during the NAST Environmental Science Awarding ceremony at Admiral Hotel, Manila. (Photo by Xyrus Ivan De Gracia, DOST-STII) A recent […]

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a promising tool for tackling challenges in aquatic environmental research, especially in small-data scenarios where limited sample sizes and high dimensionality typically hinder model performance. This review assesses current ML approaches applied to small datasets in aquatic systems, focusing on data characteristics, modeling strategies, and optimization fra…

Microbial community assembly in marine integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems remains poorly understood, particularly across interconnected extractive compartments spanning spatial and temporal scales. Two-step biofilters that incorporate seaweeds and multi-species biofilms (periphyton) are widely used to remove excess nitrogen and phosphorus from aquaculture effluents while simultan…

Alabama’s shellfish aquaculture industry produces eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) through off-bottom farming techniques, including adjustable long-line and floating cage systems. Highlights for 2024 Thirteen commercial oyster aquaculture operations reported harvests....

By Onda and Innovafeed Preliminary research demonstrates antibacterial potential and strong growth performance in Atlantic salmon Innovafeed, a global leader in insect-based ingredients (Black Soldier Fly – Hermetia illucens), and Onda, the world’s largest independent aquatic contract research organization, today announced promising results from two collaborative trials evaluating the perfo…

• In collaboration with Aqua Kompetanse, KIME Akva and Greenfox Marine. • It is an important step toward greater sustainability in the species farming. • The technology for sex-sorting fish uses ultrasound in combination with AI. The Norwegian company Akvaplan-niva, in collaboration with Aqua Kompetanse, KIME Akva, and Greenfox Marine, has now completed a pilot […]

Intensive shrimp aquaculture systems often suffer from water quality deterioration and disease outbreaks. Biofloc technology is one of the sustainable management strategies for shrimp culture, while the choice of organic carbon source critically influences microbial community dynamics. This study investigated the effects of peanut shells (an abundant agricultural by-product) on the bacterial comm…