Minh Phu’s rice-shrimp farming model combines rice cultivation and shrimp farming in an integrated and innovative way, optimising land use and farm inputs, while reducing operational risks for farmers in the Mekong Delta.
Despite facing a number of key challenges, Bangladesh’s monodon sector has an opportunity to position itself as a low carbon alternative to the more intensively produced vannamei that dominate global markets.
While aquaculture has not always been well-received around the Greek islands, one family has managed to combine fish farming with tourism, suggesting that the two sectors can successfully co-exist.
Biofilters are commonly used in recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS), but their limitations mean that innovators are busy developing possible alternatives – such as electro-oxidation – or enhancements, such as electro-coagulation and UASB reactors.
How shrimp farmers can gain tangible benefits from reducing their carbon footprints is one of the key themes at the climate session of this year’s Global Shrimp Forum.
The Shrimp Tech project, a collaboration between Dutch and Vietnamese partners, aims to help Vietnam’s struggling shrimp sector compete in the global markets by promoting sustainable farming practices.
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.
The seaweed sector could dramatically reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies if – like the space sector – it did more of the work from the comfort and safety of shore bases, according to Joyeeta Das, CEO of Samudra Oceans.
Although aquaculture production is becoming the fastest contributor to the food sector, the Caribbean has seen slower growth and accounts for less than 1 percent of global aquaculture production.
