Crustaceans

Ecuador’s meteoric growth in shrimp production shows no sign of slowing down – despite the decline in global shrimp prices – according to one of the sector’s leading analysts.

Dr Stacey Williams has been awarded $10 million to help restore coral reefs in Puerto Rico with the help of farmed sea urchins and herbivorous crabs.

Counting devices are flooding the aquaculture market, but Algaeba claims to have developed the only one that counts with 97 percent accuracy in under 10 seconds. The Fish Site recently sat down with Algaeba owner Kunn Kangvansaichol to gain insights i…

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…

Despite being dominated by the production of a single commodity, shrimp farming is a remarkably disparate business with a huge variety of business models and production techniques.

How shrimp producers – and those who provide their feeds – can remain solvent during a time of rock-bottom shrimp prices and record feed costs will form the crux of many of the discussions in the feed session at the forthcoming Global Shrimp Forum.

The use of insect-based aquafeed ingredients – and potentially diversification into insect farming itself – could offer valuable opportunities for India’s small-scale aquaculture producers.

The second half of 2023 could be “the most challenging period for global aquaculture since the peak of the pandemic in 2020”, while for the shrimp sector it could be the toughest period since the outbreak of EMS in 2011.

Aquanzo, a startup that plans to farm Artemia in land-based systems for the aquafeed market, recently raised £1.2 million to help them to upscale their production.

A comparison of hard data and anecdotal evidence from the world’s key shrimp producing and consuming regions will be the subject of a special two-part plenary session at this year’s Global Shrimp Forum.