Category: Aquaculture
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India won the shrimp market
India leads US shrimp imports and EU tariffs are going to zero, but banned antibiotics in a few ponds now put every shipment at risk.
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More Fish, Less Fishmeal: Aquaculture’s Feed Bill Comes Due
This year two numbers moved in opposite directions, and the industry has not caught up with what that means. In June, FAO reported that aquaculture produced 103 million tonnes of aquatic animals in 2024. That was the first time it passed 100 million tonnes, and farmed fish now make up 53 percent of all aquatic…
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No farms – still lice
In British Columbia, removing salmon farms has not produced the clean drop in sea lice on wild juvenile salmon that many expected. That finding is now quoted worldwide as proof that farms do not drive lice on wild fish. The evidence is real, but it is narrower than the headline. It says a lot about…
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Aquaculture at a crossroads
Aquaculture has won the argument about scale. In 2024 farms produced 103 million tonnes of aquatic animals, passing 100 million for the first time and overtaking wild capture, which has been stuck between 86 and 94 million tonnes since the late 1980s. FAO expects aquatic animal production to reach 214 million tonnes by 2034, with…