CIHEAM Press Review

Wabil Alshareef, founder and owner of Saudi Arabia’s first rainbow trout facility - the imaginatively titled Trout Fish Farms - outlines his ambitions to produce up to 5,000 tonnes a year. 

With a record-breaking 3,115 participants from 97 countries, Aquaculture Europe reinforced its place as the continent’s most influential gathering for the sector.

French startup Agriloops has recently launched its first commercial-scale saline aquaponics facility, in a bid to produce environmentally responsible shrimp and vegetables for the local market. 

Omega Farm in Fujairah is one of pioneers of fish farming in the UAE, combining innovation, sustainability, and a strong focus on research and development.

Following a scathing appraisal of the industry, renowned ecologist, author, and research professor Carl Safina explains his views on contemporary aquaculture, and outlines changes he believes necessary for it to attain true sustainability.

Wavu aims to link smallholder fish farmers to high quality and affordable inputs, while also guaranteeing their offtakes, in a bid to ensure a more resilient future for tens of thousands of Kenyans.

A new initiative that will provide training, equipment and startup capital for 10,000 prospective fish farmers across Ghana has been launched by the country’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo.

A new yeast-based product by Lallemand has shown promising results in improving the performance of farmed European seabass.

Previous research carried out by ESR suggested that animal welfare was "completely unheard of" in Egypt's farmed fish sector, but the two organisations aim to change this through the new partnership.
Egypt is the top tilapia producer in Africa and the Tilapia Welfare Project aims to show Egyptian producers not only how to measure and assess tilapia welfare on farm, but also the financial and production benefits of doing so.

The recently published communication on international ocean governance sets the path of EU ocean policies for years to come. Among the key policies, there’s a set of EU commitments to support the innovation, sustainability and competitiveness of the aquaculture sector.

The European Commission has approved €400 million in state aid to support French farms and fish farms and is proposing to provide €17.7 million in aid to Air France employees made redundant by the pandemic.

Results from an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) project with sea cucumbers and marine finfish show that the system is feasible, but practitioners need to refine their designs to ensure the sea cucumbers thrive.

Ecotechnolgies, including constructed and reciprocating wetland systems, might offer economical alternatives to RAS, employing some of the same principles as recirc systems, but at the fraction of the

A new study by the University of Piraeus suggests that that case for heavily subsidising Greece’s fish farming sector is fundamentally flawed.

As interest in aquaculture grows, we can and should ask: how can we farm with an eye toward minimizing or altogether avoiding welfare harms?

Mohamed El Gendy manages a 600-tonne capacity carp farm in Erbil, northern Iraq, which might be one of the country’s most promising aquaculture operations.

Francisco Murillo is perplexed by the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on failing RAS projects, when a fraction of the funding could help proven businesses like Tropo Farms produce tens of thousands more tonnes of tilapia a year.

A project in Duhok, in Iraqi Kurdistan, aims to produce up to 60,000 tonnes of carp a year, offering economic hope and improved food security in this fragile region.

Seeking to change perceptions of farmed seafood, the Aquaculture Stewardship Council recently hosted eight retail seafood buyers and journalists for a deep-dive tour of Mediterranean aquaculture.

Reducing the harvest weight of tilapia is proving commercially astute and boosting food security in Africa – according to the continent’s largest producer, Victory Farms.

With nearly 30 countries and 10 especially popular shrimp species, a look at the European shrimp market provides a fascinating insight into cultural and culinary differences across the continent.

Spain is one of the main European aquaculture producers, being considered a key sector in the food chain that is supported by a strong, competitive and highly technological value chain.
That is why it is essential to create an international meeting space for the industry in this country, as a sign of the potential, quality and talent linked to this sector.

It’s surprising that an industry as large as aquaculture hasn’t been mapped yet. Practically every other industry has a global mapping/monitoring programme: Global Forest Watch, Global Mangrove Watch, Global Fishing Watch, Allen Coral Atlas, Global Solar Atlas, the list goes on.

For the first-time visitor coming from 27°C degrees in Accra Ghana, the 10°C welcome offered by the historic city of Alexandria was very unfriendly. But all that faded away as I entered Bibliothek Alexandria for the beginning of AFRAQ 2021, the twice postponed conference and exhibition hosted by the World Aquaculture Society and other partners, which eventually took place from 25 to 28 March.

When it comes to the business of seafood, Covid-19 hasn't been nearly as damaging as the ecological havoc caused by humans, a recent global survey of fish farms found.