Yearly Archives: 2018

Vietnamese seafood companies need to work harder to realise the export target of 10 billion USD set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) when oversea shipments in during January-July were estimated at only 4.66 billion USD. The yearly growth rate of seafood export in the period this […]

The owners of the country’s largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school’s oceanfront campus. Springtide Seaweed’s Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera, who operate a 35-acre aquaculture lease in Frenchman Bay and several other […]

Seafarms has achieved a key regulatory approval required to deliver the mammoth Project Sea Dragon, obtaining the aquaculture licence for the Legune Station operation. Project Sea Dragon is a $1.45 billion prawn aquaculture project that will see the development of up to 10,000 hectares of land for black tiger prawn […]

The fifth national training programme on ‘Installation and Operation of Freshwater Aquaculture Production (FRP) Carp Hatchery’ was inaugurated at ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) here Tuesday. RK Singh, project coordinator, ICAR-All India Coordinated Research Project on Plasticulture Engineering and Technology (AICRP-PET) and director, ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering […]

The gross value of fisheries output totalled some RM 14 billion last year, with the highest attributed through fish catch, and the remaining shared by aquaculture and land fisheries industries respectively. The fish catch output value recorded at RM11 billion, while RM2.9 billion through aquaculture and the land fisheries (fresh […]

Eco-shrimp farming, which has been spreading in the Mekong Delta localities in recent years, is touted as a model for sustainable aquaculture development thanks to its strengths in environmental protection, low costs, and high profit. Eco farming refers to the practice of raising shrimps in rice fields or mangrove forests […]

The owners of the country’s largest organic seaweed farm are partnering with College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor to create and operate a saltwater research and production facility on the school’s campus. Springtide Seaweed’s Sarah Redmond and Trey Angera, who operate a 35-acre aquaculture lease in Frenchman Bay and […]

Shrimp farming is one of the biggest industries in Vietnam, and the government is pushing to expand it, having announced plans last year to boost exports from $3 billion in 2016 to $10 billion by 2025. Shrimp farmer Nguyen Manh Hung lost his entire farm to erosion in 2016 after […]

Nathan Egnew, a graduate student of aquaculture/fisheries at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, is researching the physiological response of largemouth bass to ammonia. His research could help fish farmers raise and transport the fish to market more efficiently, he says. By Will Hehemann Special to The Commercial “As […]

Major fish importers in the country have heeded the Federal Government’s directive to engage in backward integration of fishing through commercial aquaculture and production of fish for export, the Deputy Director of Fisheries, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Pwaspo Emmanuel, has said. He spoke on Thursday on […]