Carp

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

By global standards, aquaculture across Central Asia is growing at a very slow pace, with the progress far more drawn-out than forecasted. There is, according to local players, a plethora of factors constraining the industry’s development – everything from a…

24th July 2025

Central Asian aquaculture struggling to get a firm footing

24th July 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Fish welfare consultancy, FAI, has released an online course in Chinese to help raise carp welfare standards.

8th May 2024

Raising carp welfare standards in China

8th May 2024

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

It’s expected Russian aquaculture production exceeded 400,000 tonnes in 2023, Ilya Shestakov, head of the Russian federal agency for fisheries, Rosrybolovstvo, outlined during a recent press conference. While stakeholders say this will…

12th January 2024

Has the storm passed for Russia’s fish farmers?

12th January 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

One year ago, Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border, triggering the bloodiest conflict the European continent has seen since the Second World War. Since then, Ukrainian fish farmers have sustained tremendous losses,…

12th April 2023

Ukrainian aquaculture – one year on

12th April 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

In recent years, Polish fish farmers have developed and scaled-up their businesses – largely anticipating a steady rise in domestic fish consumption, but this past year, skyrocketing food inflation has led many…

8th February 2023

Poland in uncharted waters

8th February 2023

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Despite all the terrors of ongoing conflict, most Ukrainian fish producers have maintained their operations – not least because the population needs them to, learns World Fishing & Aquaculture

25th July 2022

Farming in the shadow of war

25th July 2022

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

The EU-27’s total organic aquaculture production reached a level of around 74,032 tonnes in 2020 and accounted for 6.4% of the region’s total farmed output, according to a new report from the European…

20th May 2022

EU organic aqua growth

20th May 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Struggling to bolster food security, countries in this vast region have set their sights on aquaculture growth. But while ambitious plans are being laid out, fish farmers still find themselves undermined by…

19th May 2022

Central Asias aqua hopes

19th May 2022

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Iran’s new government has rolled out ambitious plans to boost domestic farmed fish production from last year’s level of 560,000 tonnes to 1.6 million tonnes by the end of the decade through…

21st February 2022

Iran’s aqua growth plans

21st February 2022