The Biofilter You Didn’t Choose – Part Two, Salinity, the new microbiology and the...
by Marco G Pistrin, Founder and Managing Director, AquaOrganica SRL, Italy
The first article left the biofilter as a temperature problem: fast or slow, surface-area-bound or oxygen-bound. Salinity is the second master variable and it...
You Do Not Have an Oxygen Problem
by Marco G. Pistrin
The call almost always sounds the same. Dissolved oxygen is sitting low, the fish are off their feed and something must be done before the weekend. And the reflex answer is...
Aquaculture and the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility: A missed opportunity?
by Dr Elisabete Matos, Assistant Professor, Egas Moniz School of Health & Science, Portugal
We are approaching the end of a remarkable chapter: the implementation of the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), created...
Global Aquafeed Production Shows Strong Recovery
By Daniel Merrifield
The recent release of Alltech's Agri-Food Outlook 2026 provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the state of the global aquafeed industry. Each year, the report offers a valuable overview of global...
The Ocean has never been static, so fisheries management must adapt too
By Brett Glencross
A landmark study by Fulton and colleagues, analysing decades of data from the highly complex Gulf of Thailand fishery, underlines that ecosystems are not static. They are deeply dynamic, with constantly shifting...
From Bottleneck to Broodstock,The rise of farmed amberjack
by Marco G Pistrin, Founder and Managing Director, AquaOrganica SRL, Italy
Japan has farmed amberjack for the better part of a century and built it into something close to a national staple: after tuna, yellowtail...
Sustainable Fish Feeds and Climate Resilience
by Arkadios Dimitroglou, Assistant Professor in Fish Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
Climate change has been documented for decades and is being mentioned more often day by day. The problem gets greater when this...
A RAS Is Not a Shopping List
Why correctly-sized components still build systems that fail and what the Excel farmer and the catalogue engineer have in common
Walk into almost any recirculating system that is struggling and you will find the same...
Europe’s Aquaculture Faces a Growth Challenge
When the first State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report was published in 1995, the FAO estimated that global aquaculture production would need to double from around 16 million tonnes to 31...
There are No Solutions, Only Trade-offs
In our collective rush to build a greener future, we have become dangerously addicted to the myth of the ‘silver bullet.’ We look at complex global challenges and demand clean, uncomplicated solutions. In the...
