Julie Hesketh-Laird, the new chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producer’s Organisation shares her first impressions of the country’s salmon sector and how she plans to help it to evolve.
With 2394 visitors, 190 exhibitors and a 50 percent increase in floor space, Aquaculture UK 2018 exceeded expectations, as this photo gallery reflects.
As a post-grad Dr Yvonne Roessner set up the only mussel farm in the German Baltic, an operation that is now thriving, and now has ambitions to take over – and revitalise – the country’s only saltwater rainbow trout farm
The combined ethical and economic arguments for encouraging gender diversity in aquaculture were among the key themes at The Fish Site’s inaugural Women in Aquaculture event.
Heather Jones, CEO of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, explains why she's backing this week's Women in Aquaculture breakfast, describes a visit to a Tasmanian shellfish hatchery and recalls an unpleasant encounter with an uncooked echinoderm
Marie-Clare Russell, who has been involved in fish health since the mid-80s, is relishing the challenge of developing new ways to tackle sea lice in her current role as managing director of FAI Aquaculture.
Isabel Represas, regional sales director at INVE Aquaculture, discusses the opportunities and challenges facing fish farming in the Mediterranean, and what it takes to keep pace with a rapidly evolving industry
Catherine Greengrass Smith, director of aquaculture and environmental consultancy Gaia, talks about her ambitions to help the growth of South Africa’s aquaculture industry
Victoria Chomo, secretary of the FAO's European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) and the Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (CACFish), offers some fascinating insights into aquaculture in Easte…
Four employees from Kampachi Farms – Lucie Leonard, Helen Meigs, Lisa Vollbrecht and Taimane Ulu – discuss gender issues, feed trials and the challenges posed by farming yellowtail in the middle of the largest ocean on earth.
