Responsibility
Egypt is the third-largest tilapia producer globally, after China and Indonesia, and accounts for about 80 percent of African production of farmed tilapia. Many of the reasons for Egypt’s successful development of its important tilapia industry could be applied to the rest of African continent.
Health & Welfare
Un estudio con tilapia del Nilo llevado a cabo en jaulas de producción comercial en Brasil mostró el potencial – en ausencia de las amenazas de las principales enfermedades – de un promotor del crecimiento comercial, natural que modula la microbiota (inhibiendo el crecimiento de bacterias patógenas y promoviendo el crecimiento de bacterias beneficiosas) e inhibiendo la detección de quórum.
Innovation & Investment
The Velella Project examined the technical viability of unanchored open-ocean fish farming by deploying a submerged net pen off Hawaii.
Responsibility
While Bangladesh's prawn industry is based on pond culture, a feasibility study was conducted to establish prawn cage culture to benefit resource-poor fishers and landless people.
Health & Welfare
With support from the government and large companies, models for tilapia cage farming in Thailand acted as a catalyst to expand production in the 1990s.