Stirling awarded grant for Vietnam vaccine project

Pangasius catfish in hand in banana leaf

Scientists at the University of Stirling have been awarded more than £770,000 to support the roll out of a new vaccine that could deliver major benefits to the aquaculture industry in Vietnam. The new project – led by the University’s world-leading Institute of Aquaculture – will build on a previous study that developed an innovative…

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Record breakers

Fish market, Angola

With aquaculture now producing more than catch fisheries for the first time in human history, has the age of the fish farm arrived?

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Conflicts impact on Vietnam 2023 seafood exports

Vietnam’s seafood exports in 2023 – mostly aquaculture related – have hit US $9.2bn (£7.2bn), just short of the $10bn (£7.8bn) goal that had been set at the start of the year. The Vietnamese Fisheries Directorate said the main export species were shrimp at US $3.45bn (£2.7bn) and pangasius at $1.9bn (£1.5bn), both heavily farmed.…

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Ambition in the East

Vietnam is looking to grow its aquaculture – and to make it more efficient. Vince McDonagh reports It might come as a surprise to some people to learn that Vietnam is the world’s fourth-largest producer of farmed fish, generating almost 4.9 million tonnes a year – three times that of Norway, for example. Its products,…

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