Health & Welfare
InnoCreate pioneers the first rapid test for white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), giving shrimp farmers fast, affordable on-site detection.
Health & Welfare
Bacterial mixtures from live-feed microalgae can combat fish pathogens, offering a possible alternative to antibiotics in aquaculture.
Health & Welfare
Onda secures funding to develop a rapid disease test for faster, cost-effective aquaculture disease detection in fish and shellfish.
Health & Welfare
New Seek Labs tool detects White Spot Syndrome Virus in shrimp 24 hours post-infection, offering a cost-effective, lab-free solution.
Health & Welfare
A funding round of $8.25 million enables ViAqua to scale RNA-based solutions for aquaculture disease and invest in R&D for future products.
Innovation & Investment
Norway-based software and data analytics firm Manolin launched a service to automatically alert farmers about nearby non-notifiable diseases.
Intelligence
More R&D and investment is needed to address various ongoing issues in shrimp farming, including genetic improvement, nutritional requirements and feed ingredients, health management and other issues.
Health & Welfare
Policies to limit antibiotic use spurred interest in alternative strategies, such as dietary supplementation with immunostimulants and other compounds.
Health & Welfare
Proactive shrimp disease management, or prevention, is preferable to reactive treatment. Prevention can, however, can be costlier in the short term.