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Leanne Morris Bennet is an aquaculture extension officer with the National Fisheries Authority in Jamaica, currently pursuing a master of science in aquatic biology in Iceland, where her research focuses on oyster farming in Jamaica.

Chabungbam Bijoy Singh started fish farming in Manipur state, northeast India after he realised the huge potential in carp seed production around four decades ago. He dreams of developing his business into the state’s largest hatchery, so the region is self-su…

Pak Asdar Marsuki is working closely with seaweed farmers in South Sulawesi, where MARI Oceans – a community development vehicle – is trialling new technologies in a bid to optimise farming operations.

Victory Farms might have achieved a great deal in their first seven years, but – as company CEO, Joseph Rehmann, explains in the second part of the article – fresh challenges and opportunities await.

The shrimp sector is in for a difficult year, with many of the smaller farmers likely to go out of business, according to Rabobank’s latest Global Aquaculture Update, which was published this week.

After deciding to become a fish farmer at the age of 13, Soibam Surchandra Singh is now one of the most successful aquaculture operators in Manipur, northeast India.

Reaching 10,000 tonnes of tilapia production within eight years of being founded is no mean feat – especially in a poverty-stricken country with an extremely limited aquaculture ecosystem – but it’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to Joseph Rehmann, CEO…

Angela Odero, CEO and co-founder of Rio Fish Limited, is on a mission to end the sex-for-fish trade in Kenya, (whereby women traders are sexually exploited by predatory fishermen) - through market linkages so that women traders can access an adequate, convenie…

Over the last 11 years Mpanju Elpidius has grown his tilapia farm from scratch, to become one of Tanzania’s largest farmers – producing over a million fingerlings as well as 20 tonnes of market-sized fish every month.

Stacy Ann Gray has spent over 15 years as an aquaculture extension officer at Jamaica’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, where her achievements include setting up an oyster farm and the country’s first seaweed farm.

The global recession has hit emerging farmers in developing countries most harshly, according to Prof Greg Lutz, Fish Site columnist and extension specialist at Louisiana State University.

Indonesia needs a sustainable source of funding to conserve and restore its blue carbon ecosystems and combat climate change – and carbon credits may be the solution that helps them flourish.

This year has been particularly notable for the emergence of the seaweed sector, according to Harrison Karisa, senior aquaculture specialist at the World Bank, which has over $9 billion relating to the ocean portfolio.

After an eventful recent past – which included two years stuck in Myanmar due to Covid-19 restrictions and then spending time as a refugee in Vietnam, where his former student, Loc Tran, managed to secure him a temporary visa after the coup in Myanmar – Prof K…

Aquaculture advocate Jennifer Bushman is the co-founder of Fed by Blue and executive producer of Hope in the in Water – a four-part docuseries about the future of blue foods that’s due to be broadcast in early 2024.

Indonesia-based aquaculture specialist Retno Nuraini’s continual work on sustainable production has led her to join Deliberate Capital, an investment company which is providing financial and technical expertise to smallholder shrimp farmers.