CIHEAM Press Review

An Egyptian team has succeeded in developing a smart device to estimate the feed intake required for each tank on a fish farm, helping improve productivity and water quality.

It is less than a month until Zambia meets the world for the second Aquaculture Africa Conference, which is taking place in Lusaka on 13-16 November.

Une production de plus de 1.200 tonnes de poisson a été enregistrée dans la filière d’aquaculture marine et continentale de Boumerdes depuis le début de l’année 2023, a-t-on appris mercredi de la direction locale de la pêche et des ressources halieutiques.

After overcoming some early setbacks, Nawa Consollata Muyangana’s decision to diversify into farming tilapia has seen her make waves in Zambia’s aquaculture scene and she now has ambitions to ramp up production to 20,000 tonnes a year.

Straight after her graduation with a degree in land economy in 2019, Precious Nutifafa decided to build a catfish farm in Saviefe Agorkpo, in the Volta Region of Ghana, and she now has plans to build production to 200 tonnes a year.

Shrimp farming consultant and hatchery specialist, Philip Buike, was instrumental in getting the first commercial production of post-larvae in Europe off the ground, at a farm run by White Panther in Austria. He is currently involved with the development of va…

The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI), and the Spanish Association of Tuna Freezers (AGAC) have joined forces to launch the innovative FAD Watch Project. This collaborative effort aims to prevent and minimise the impact of drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs) on coral reefs, shallow water…

En Égypte, l’industrie aquacole est la plus développée en Afrique. Dans le pays ce sous-secteur agricole a le plus souvent recours aux énergies fossiles notamment dans l’industrie des aliments pour poissons ou encore pour le fonctionnement des écloseries

WorldFish has embarked on a groundbreaking initiative with Norway which aims to refine, test and scale innovative renewable energy solutions for the aquaculture sector in Egypt.

Writing in the latest edition of The Current, Sonia Fernandez from UC Santa Barbara explains that the study shows that more than 90 percent of global blue food production faces substantial risks from environmental change, with several leading countries in Asia and the United States set to face the greatest threats to production.

The Fish Site columnist Proscovia Alando is planning to launch the first ever comprehensive independent analysis of the Kenyan aquaculture sector – in a bid to determine the number of farmers, their total production capacity, the key challenges they need to overcome and to make recommendations for how productivity and profitability can be improved.

Oluwasikemi Olabisi is the director of The FarmLady Aquatics Limited, a consulting company that helps prospective and existing catfish farmers through training, mentoring and production of healthy catfish juveniles.

Alternative proteins are often cited as being better – environmentally, ethically and nutritionally – than farmed seafoods, but the reality is much more complex and far less clear-cut than some alt-protein evangelists realise.

As an advocate of seaweed aquaculture, biologist Patricia Bianchi promotes sustainable food production all over the world with the aim to improve livelihoods and minimise environmental impacts through her role in the ASC-MSC seaweed programme.

The ASTRAL Project invites academic researchers, industry experts, high-tech SMEs, future-orientated policymakers and technology enthusiasts to join an in-person event on “Technologies and Circularity for a Sustainable Aquaculture”, on 9-10 November at DFactory, Barcelona.

Ahmed Al Sharaki is one of the pioneers of aquaculture in Egypt, who has worked in the public and private sectors in mono-sex tilapia culture for four decades. He currently runs the two Almadinah hatcheries.

Un Fonds d’appui d’environ 25 millions d’euros est mis en place pour aider à développer les projets d’entreprise dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, de la pêche et de l’aquaculture durables.
Ce fonds d’appui au développement durable dans le secteur de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche artisanale en Tunisie (ADAPT) est financé par l’Union Européenne (UE) et est mis en œuvre par l’Agence Italienne pour la Coopération au Développement en partenariat avec le Programme Alimentaire Mondial.

Plans to replicate a successful pilot programme in Uganda, which involves the creation of aquaculture hubs that provide a cluster of local farmers with a market and also key inputs, are gaining momentum, following the formation of a new partnership.

Rural Aquaculture Development (RAD) has developed an innovative model both to grow and sell its own tilapia, and to support the local aquaculture sector, in a bid to improve smallholder livelihoods in western Uganda.

Vincent Oduor, who was recently named Kenya’s most innovative fish farmer, is the co-founder and CEO of Aquaculture Barn Limited – a producer of juvenile tilapia and catfish.

Kenneth Odoemenam is an aquaculture consultant, catfish farmer and YouTube sensation from Nigeria, who leverages the power of social media to drive his catfish farming and consulting business.

Seafood production has become a globalised industry and many countries have seafood industries that are being buoyed by overseas migrant workers – hard-working people who left their home countries, and often their entire families, to seek their fortunes abroad…

Eslam Elsamadony is one of the pioneers of Egypt’s biofloc aquaculture sector, helping to transform a struggling farm into a system capable of producing 50 tonnes of tilapia a year.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for a global effort to strengthen aquaculture for food and sustainable development.