Michelle Mbeo, founder of Kenyan tilapia producer Lake View Fisheries, explains her ambitions – both for the company and for the country’s aquaculture sector as a whole.
Africa’s largest, vertically integrated tilapia farmers deserve to attract more investment, but financiers should look at other options on the continent too, argues Anton Immink, CEO of ThinkAqua.
Francisco Murillo is perplexed by the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on failing RAS projects, when a fraction of the funding could help proven businesses like Tropo Farms produce tens of thousands more tonnes of tilapia a year.
Recent trials in Thailand suggest that mixed-sex tilapia farming might offer a promising alternative to the cultivation of hormone-induced all-male fish, especially in cage farms in Africa.
Tran Van Van swapped a career as a civil engineer for one in aquaculture, founding the Minh Phu International Joint Stock Company, which produces tilapia, catfish and mitten crabs.
After graduating from United States International University (USIU-Africa), with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Paul Murage opted to work at his family’s construction business, before establishing Pwani Fish Farm and Hatchery, in Kilifi County…
Lana Fish Company produces tilapia, carp, ornamental fish and even rainbow trout – despite being located in the Saudi Arabian desert – as executive director, Ibrahim Al-Madbouly, explains.
Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons has an optimistic outlook for the global aquaculture sector, especially in terms of alternative aquafeed ingredients, but is deeply concerned how plans to raise import tariffs in the US will impact both the domestic seafood market a…
Wavu aims to link smallholder fish farmers to high quality and affordable inputs, while also guaranteeing their offtakes, in a bid to ensure a more resilient future for tens of thousands of Kenyans.
Mazen Elsawaf, technical director of Maher fish farm in Saudi Arabia and a strong advocate of RAS, represents a new generation of ambitious young Egyptians in aquaculture.
Tilapia farming in sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing incomparable growth rates, and experts expect these to continue apace, as it bids to finally fulfil its aquaculture potential.
Aquasend’s low maintenance water quality sensors are being used by an increasingly wide range of international aquaculture producers, as CEO, Kristin Elliott, explains.
Mohamed Salah Ibrahim runs Al Sahaba Hatchery, one of the oldest tilapia hatcheries in Kafr El-Sheikh, and continues the legacy of his father, Dr Salah Ibrahim, one of Egypt’s pioneers of mono-sex tilapia production.
Akin Showemimo, widely known as “Akinfish”, is the director of Asher Royal Produce Limited, a company that produces its own catfish, tilapia and heterotis, and also helps to equip and train other farmers, both in Nigeria and further afield.
Gabriel Thomas Kimeu, 27, is a computer science graduate who set up a RAS tilapia, catfish and ornamental fish farm in eastern Kenya and has major ambitions to grow.
Egypt has huge potential to increase its production of marine species, in sea cages, coastal ponds and well-based inland farms according to Dr Mohamed Abdel Rahim, one of the country’s leading aquaculture experts.
A look at some of the emerging technologies that hold promise for saving endangered fish species, as well as the potential to accelerate genetic improvements in aquaculture.
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.
As it seeks to ramp up tilapia production in Kenya and Rwanda, Victory Farms has decided to outsource much of its egg production to local smallholders – bringing a range of community benefits.
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is slowly being transformed by groundwater extraction, overpopulation, pollution and climate change. Unsolved, this will dramatically reduce Vietnam’s aquaculture output and pose a serious threat to local and regional food security.
