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Copenhagen

Blue food, green solutions

Copenhagen is the venue for an event that will bring together aquaculture expertise from all over the world. The eyes of the world’s aquaculture sector will be on Copenhagen this...
Aerial view of the sea fish farm cages and fishing village in XiaPu, FuJian province, China

Big country, big ideas

The Chinese fish farming sector is steadily growing, as part of a drive to ensure food security, as Eugene Gerden reports. The Chinese fish farming sector is steadily growing these...
Hog Island Tomales Bay Farm

Growing together

Integrated aquaculture is catching on in world-wide markets, reports Julia Hollister. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, or IMTA, is similar to polyculture, where two or more crops are farmed in an integrated...
Subfarm pictured with Sevan SSP feed barge

Deep thinking

Norway’s Subfarm plans to take salmon farming to new depths – and exciting new locations – as Robert Outram reports The ocean is wide. Despite that, however, competition for marine...
Feeding fish

The aquafeed dilemma

The industry knows that we need to find alternative ingredients for aquafeed, but will consumers have a problem with that? One of the North Atlantic’s key fish stocks is in...
Salmon in a fish farm

Global approach

Instead of a dozen species-specific standards, the ASC is rolling out one. Robert Outram finds out why The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is one of the leading standard-setting bodies in...
Aquatic Food Security book

Seafood in an insecure world

A new collection of academic essays explores global food security issues and the role of aquaculture. Food security has come again to the fore as a policy issue, underlined by...
Icelandic salmon farm

Battle over the fjords

Iceland’s elected representatives are weighing up the arguments for and against further growth in the country’s salmon farming sector. Vince McDonagh reports Iceland's fish farmers could be heading for confrontation...
Students investigate the “naked clams” project

Shucking champs and naked clams

Despite the absence of politicians thanks to the election, the SAGB Conference covered the whole range of the UK’s shellfish sector, as Nicki Holmyard reports There's always room for the...
Fish Farmer cover July 2024

The July 2024 issue of Fish Farmer is out now