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...
The Biofilter You Didn’t Choose – Part One, How system design and temperature write...
by Marco G Pistrin, Founder and Managing Director, AquaOrganica SRL, Italy
Walk onto most farm floors and ask how the biofilter was chosen and you will hear a number: so many cubic metres of media,...
Biosecurity Is Not a Door You Lock, Paying Attention to What Is Inside
by Marco G Pistrin
The aquaculture industry has built an impressive set of front doors. Footbaths at every entrance. Visitor logs. Disinfection stations positioned at carefully considered intervals. Walk into any modern RAS facility and the...
The Tide is Turning: Marine By-Products as Aquaculture’s New Frontier
By Brett Glencross
Recently I was able to attend the 22nd International Symposium of Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF) in the beautiful tropical Australian city of Darwin. This event, coordinated every two years by the...
Food Security Starts with Reducing Waste
By Eric De Muylder,CreveTecSince the COVID-19 crisis, many countries have realised that they should focus more on food security. The recent developments in the Middle East and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz...
Editorial- June 2026
By Daniel Merrifield
Effective feed formulation depends fundamentally upon knowing the nutritional requirements of the target species, considering the life stage and production system, while also balancing practical and economic constraints. Whether formulating to meet minimum requirements...
