Aquaculture Development Solutions Podcast

Nadeem Nazurally is an Associate Professor at the University of Mauritius, supervising PhD research at what is likely the largest marine finfish farm in the Western Indian Ocean, producing around 4,000 to 4,500 tonnes of red drum a year. His work spans environmental monitoring around aquaculture sites, coral restoration, IMTA development in open lagoon systems, sea urchin trials, and seaweed resea...

Two early-career researchers working at very different ends of the aquaculture spectrum. Aimee Cloete is a PhD student at UCT developing sea urchin aquaculture in South Africa, with a focus on integrating Cape Sea Urchin production into existing abalone systems. Anga Mbeyiya is the founder of One Blue, a seaweed startup connecting rural coastal cooperatives in the Eastern Cape and Kenya to markets...

Dr. Isabelle Arzul is a research scientist at Ifremer in La Tremblade, France, one of the most important oyster-producing regions in Europe. A veterinarian by training with a PhD on oyster herpesvirus, she has spent over 20 years specializing in shellfish diseases. She led the EU Reference Laboratory for Mollusc Diseases for nearly 15 years and now heads the ASIM team (Adaptation and Health of Mar...

Marissa Brink-Hull is a production scientist at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, with a PhD in genetics from Stellenbosch University and postdoctoral experience on EU-funded IMTA research across the Atlantic. Her work spans population genetics, hatchery and grow-out technology for low-trophic species, and microbiome dynamics in aquaculture systems, with a particular focu...

John Bolton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town with over 40 years of research on seaweeds along Africa's coastlines, and has been very involved in practically all forms of seaweed aquaculture in Africa and further afield. Sarah Halse works in research and production at a South African abalone farm, where she manages large-scale Ulva production and has developed hands-on exper...

In this episode, we sit down with two of South Africa's leading aquaculture researchers and research managers to take stock of where the sector stands and where it needs to go. Dr. Cliff Jones is a researcher at the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science at Rhodes University, with 25 years of experience developing aquaculture technologies in close collaboration with industry. Andrea B...

In this episode, we sit down with the two founders of LIMAQUA, a South African-French joint research and training programme working to develop sustainable, nutrition-sensitive marine aquaculture across the African continent. Dr. Brett Macey is a specialist scientist at South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment, where he has spent 18 years developing sustainable aquacultu...

Welcome to the Aquaculture Development Solutions podcast, where science meets practical action in African aquaculture. In this opening episode, hosts Bas de Vos and Siyabonga Mdletshe introduce themselves and the series. Bas is a marine biologist and aquaculture researcher (PhD, UCT) specialising in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, emerging species like sea cucumbers and sea urchins, and aqua...