By Fishprof For millennia coastal communities have harvested seaweed. Quite clearly seaweed is making inroads nowadays into western areas – be that food, beauty products, or medicine. The advent of new important activities and documents on seaweed has determined that FishProf will give you an update. For millennia coastal communities have harvested seaweed. In East Asia, notably China, Korea and...
Rosenstiel School Aquaculture Nutrition & Biotechnology Laboratory * By Jorge Suarez, Julio Camperio and Daniel Benetti Too often, decisions related to species selection, feed formulation, ingredient adoption, and investment in new technologies are driven by popularity, market trends, compelling narratives, or short-term availability, rather than by objective and comparable performance criteria. This dynamic has created structural imbalances across the sector. Certain species,...
By Aquaculture Magazine Editorial Team With modern industrialization and urbanization, global warming has become a serious threat to ecosystems, especially affecting ectothermic animals (those who body temperature depends on the environment), such as fish and shrimp. Unlike mammals, ectotherms are highly sensitive to temperature changes, which influence their distribution, behavior, physiology, metabolism, and immune function. Among the most affected systems...
* By Antonio Garza de Yta, Ph.D. The idea of producing fish within cities using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is appealing: total control minimal water use, biosecurity, traceability, and proximity to the consumer. But, as I have insisted on other occasions, not every proposal being promoted today is viable. The problem is not usually the technology itself, but rather the...
By: Lindsey White Seaweed is having a moment. Whether it’s being hailed as a climate solution, a superfood,or a miracle input for regenerative agriculture, seaweed seems to promise a fix for everything. It’s easy to get swept up in the optimism — but as someone who works on seaweed aquaculture, I believe the most important story isn’t about hype or...
By Aquaculture Magazine Editorial Team As aquaculture strives for sustainability, replacing fish meal in shrimp diets remains a challenge. This study explores an innovative combination of poultry by-product meal, insect meal, rapeseed meal, peanut meal, single-cell protein, and fish waste. Results show improved growth rates, efficient nutrient utilization, and stable gene expression, proving that alternative protein sources can sustain shrimp...
