Marine aquaculture - also called mariculture - refers to the farming of animals and plants in seawater. These plants and animals include the bivalves - oysters and mussels - finfish, abalone and seaweed species. Of these, abalone is the main marine aquaculture of value for export, while some seaweed and kelp species have. for decades been exported for alginate production.
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) is the lead Department for aquaculture development and management in South Africa. It is managed under the Branch Fisheries Management.
South Africa is one of the world’s top producers of abalone, exporting high-quality products of the endemic Haliotis midae or ‘perlemoen...
In South Africa, the following marine finfish species are produced: dusky kob, spotted grunter, Mozambique tilapia, marine trout and Atlanti...
The kelp and seaweed industry in South Africa, refers to the collection of kelp and seaweed species from its natural habitat, by rights hold...
Aquaculture is the production of plants (seaweed and kelp) and animals (fish, shellfish etc) in water. Marine aquaculture or mariculture imp...
Mussel farming in South Africa is based on two mussel species, the indigenous black mussel and the exotic Mediterranean mussel....
In South Africa, only the Pacific oyster is farmed on marine aquaculture farms on the coast of the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern C...
Early prawn research in South Africa, in the 1970s, was done by the Amatikulu Prawn Research Unit and funded by the Fisheries Development Co...