The September 2024 issue of Fish Farmer is out now online
The September issue of Fish Farmer is out now online and you can read or download it here.
Once every six years, the World Aquaculture Society and the European Aquaculture Society get together for a joint event, bringing together not only aquaculture experts from the academic world, but also senior industry representatives and public sector policymakers.
This year, the event was AQUA 2024 and the venue was Copenhagen. You can read our report of the conference in this month’s issue.
Also in September’s Fish Farmer, you can read about the latest developments aimed at placing aquaculture vessels on a more sustainable footing. Hybrid diesel-electric power, all-electric boats and even ammonia are being explored as alternative marine fuels, but which will prove the most practical?
Our Careers in Aquaculture feature this month is a report from our Recruitment and Diversity webinar, which brought together a panel of industry experts to discuss challenges for employers in aquaculture and why diversity is so much more than a “nice to have” for a company in a competitive job market.
Nicki Holmyard’s Shellfish column focuses on a subject close to home – the “Ropes to Reefs” study involving her family company, Offshore Shellfish. She explains how an old marine map from the 19th century suggests how and where shellfish populations the English Channel could be revived.
We look at a project that is empowering tilapia farmers in rural Uganda, and at the various challenges facing the aquaculture sector in Chile.
This issue features a report from Seafood Scotland’s Adam Wing on last month’s Japan International Seafood & Technology Expo in Tokyo, and articles on a new sea lice population model being developed by Mowi and a study looking at how salmon adapt to low levels of hydrogen sulphide in RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems) farms.
Finally, Nick Joy stresses the positive side of working in an industry that can be very tough, but also personally satisfying.
