08 May Will cobia be the fish of the future?
It is a high quality white fish with a mild flavour, it grows three times faster than salmon, it can be farmed consistently all year round – and not many have ever heard of it....
07 Jun Meat should be raised on insects, UN says
There has been a lot of press, both positive and negative, about a recent United Nations report in which scientists recommended that we start eating insects to fight world hunger. But the other UN recommendation — that...
31 Jan DTI to boost aquaculture industry
Aquaculture has been one of the world's big food success stories over the past two decades, but one in which SA has played an insignificant role. If the department of trade & industry (DTI) has its way, this will change....
15 Mar The foods of the future
The world diet in 2062 or 2112 will be as unfamiliar to most people today as our own cosmopolitan diet of fast food and ethnic cuisines would be to our great grandparents in 1912. The new foods will be the result of fierce demand and...
07 Apr The SA aquaculture success story that is Abagold
While poachers risk life and liberty extracting abalone off the shores of Hermanus, the pricey delicacy is being produced in tons not far away by Abagold, an SA aquaculture success story. Two decades ago this company helped pioneer what...
06 Jan Fish farming’s new frontiers
Given the environmental issues that have dogged fish farming down the years - pollution, disease, the need for wild fish to feed to the farmed ones - how can the industry expand so far without creating major problems? And where are all...