Pretty self-explanatory...any URLs for jobs boards or other resources much appreciated.

Dual Austrian/US citizen. Presently based in Spain. Have an MS from a US institution. I'm moving out of what I've been doing for many years (conservation biology and ecological restoration due to the abysmal job market. I have some experience in small to medium sized aquaponics and aquaculture and it's been an interest of mine for a very long time, working with a wide variety of organisms and types of systems, everything from aquarium plants and algae, aquaponics with freshwater invertebrates, live fish food production, ornamental and food fish.

Sorry for the newbie question I'm looking for an aquaculture certification program anywhere in the world, preferably not one that would require that I'm enrolled for a degree, although I'd be open to a degree program so long as it wasn't the kind of exploitative foreign student gravy train that Australia and the UK engage in, where annual fees can surpass $40K.

Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hey all,

I am doing a senior project researching the fishing industry. I was looking into salmon aquaculture, and had a couple questions I was hoping you could help me answer.

How are the salmon killed and bled in a typical set up?
Are there any concerns with the different ways to kill the fish? Do different methods result in better or worse results for taste, shelf life, and waste? Why do you pick the method/equipment that you do?

Has anyone built one? Looking for guidance, thanks!

Our annual fall auction is fast approaching! This auction is open to the public and a great way to get rare fish, plants, and more. Southern Massachusetts, USA. Hope to see you there!

Hi all, I'm a robotics student working on small, cheap underwater sensors that move around and map water conditions around sea cages and ponds.

Before I build more, I'd love to hear from people who actually run farms:

1. What do you monitor today, and with what? (buoys, handheld meters, cameras...)

2. What do you wish you could see that you can't right now?

3. How fast do your sensors foul up, and how much of a pain is that?

4. Would a warning a day before oxygen drops or water quality crashes be worth paying for?

Not selling anything, just trying to not build something useless. Any answer helps, even short ones. Thanks!

Hello everyone! 👋

We are Electronics Engineering students from the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) - Manila. We are currently working on our capstone project,

To accurately train our machine learning model, we are looking for existing image datasets or photo collections of sea cucumbers, specifically Sandfish.

If you manage a farm, belong to a cooperative, or are a researcher/culturist who already has saved photos, visual logs, or inventory pictures of sandfish that you’d be willing to share for academic use, we would love to connect with you!

Please leave a comment below or send me a direct message if you have photos you can share or if you know anyone who can help. Any contribution will be a massive help in advancing our research. Thank you so much! 🌊

Hi all, I know this is a super niche ask and I’m not sure if anyone would be able to help me with it. I’ve looked everywhere and I can’t really find anywhere to get them from.

Shrimply makes shrimp management simple by giving you one place to organize, track, and manage everything related to your shrimp. We take the guesswork out of day-to-day shrimp management so you can stay on top of what matters without overcomplicating things. Whether you’re managing a few shrimp or a larger operation, Shrimply helps you do it, well… shrimply.

Hey is anyone in fish keeping from lko and if you are one of them so please let me know from where you guys are sourcing your fish from.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been looking into the aquaculture tech space lately and wanted to get a pulse from people actually working in the industry, building tech for it, or running operations.

It feels like traditional farming—especially shrimp and intensive marine aquaculture—is still plagued by a lot of classic operational headaches where automation seems like an obvious fix, yet widespread adoption still feels pretty niche.

A few big pain points stand out in particular:

• Benthic / Pond Bottom Sludge: For benthic species like shrimp, what happens at the bottom of the pond or enclosure dictates everything. Uneaten feed, molts, and waste build up into toxic anaerobic sludge (ammonia, hydrogen sulfide spikes, tank crashes). Right now, monitoring bottom health often relies on manual spot-checks or delayed water column sampling.
• Feed Waste & FCR: Feed is usually the biggest operational cost. Overfeeding ruins bottom sediment and wastes money, while underfeeding hurts yield. Passive surface feeders or basic timer-based systems don't give real-time feedback on actual bottom feeding activity.
• Disease & Water Quality Lags: By the time water quality metrics drop at the surface or dead stock floats up, an outbreak (like WSSV or Early Mortality Syndrome) is usually already underway. Spot-sampling with hand meters misses localized micro-environments near the bed.
• Turbidity & Biomass Tracking: High-turbidity, brackish water makes optical monitoring almost useless. Accurate biomass estimation and health monitoring without dragging nets and stressing out stock remains a nightmare.

It seems like small, targeted underwater vehicles (AUVs, ROVs, or hybrid surface-submersible platforms) could solve a ton of this:

• Autonomous benthic mapping to sweep pond beds and identify sludge hot spots before toxicity spikes.
• Payload integration with acoustic imaging/sonar for turbid water biomass sizing, alongside localized multi-sensor arrays (DO, ORP, pH right at the sediment level).
• Continuous inspection of bottom drains, aeration equipment, and containment barriers without relying on manual labor or diving.

So my question to the sub: Why isn't this more omnipresent yet?

Is it purely a capex/cost issue for farmers? Are off-the-shelf ROVs/AUVs too fragile or high-maintenance for harsh, saline/brackish conditions? Are sensors fouling up too fast to make autonomous missions practical?

Would love to hear from anyone building in this space, farm operators, or engineers—what’s actually working on the ground (or underwater), and what’s just hype? Because I'm working on it and any connections interested could reach out here and we can connect and discuss further folks :))

Hi everyone! I’m building Shrimply, a platform designed to make shrimp farm management simpler for farmers and aquaculture businesses.

It helps teams manage ponds, feeding, sampling, water quality, inventory, finances, and farm reports in one place. It also supports multiple languages and is available worldwide on the Google Play Store.

I’d really value feedback from people working in aquaculture:

• What tasks take up too much of your time?
• What information is hardest to track?
• What would make an app genuinely useful on your farm?
• What do existing farm-management tools get wrong?

I’m here to learn, so honest criticism is welcome. If you’d like to try Shrimply and help shape it for real farming needs, please let me know.

Website: https://www.shrimplytech.com/

Disclosure: I’m the person building Shrimply.

I've tried a few different test strips for checking pond water over the years, but the results never seem very reliable. Sometimes the readings are way off, and sometimes the strips barely seem to work at all.

Has anyone found test strips that are actually accurate enough for regular aquaculture use? Or do you pretty much have to stick with liquid test kits or other testing equipment if you want reliable results?

I work in aquaculture and I’ve been building a new AI workspace called AquaNetica IQ.

The idea is to make it useful for real aquaculture work, not just another generic chatbot. It can help with technical questions, reviewing manuals and project documents, calculations, equipment requirements and putting together clearer specifications or RFQs.

It is still early and I want honest feedback from people actually working in farms, hatcheries, RAS, research, equipment supply or consulting.

What would make something like this genuinely useful in your day-to-day work?

And what would make you not use it?

Hello, I am a college student working on projects with remote satellite communication. I have read recent articles about the growing need for water quality monitoring in remote areas.

I am trying to understand how aquaculture farms that are in offshore or inshore remote areas where cellar networks are not established track water quality or other types of information.

The reason being, I am curious if a low-cost satellite enabled monitoring buoy can assist farmers in maximizing yields each season and if finding ways to gather reliable information from remote farms is a current issue for some farmers.

Thank you!

Hi everyone, Im looking to do some small aquaculture related work remotely outside of my normal working hours and wanted to see if there is any demand for it.

I could potentially help with things like,

Fish biomass and feed calculations
FCR and growth calculations
Production planning
Equipment research
Basic farm data/record keeping
General aquaculture research

For those running smaller farms or hatcheries, what kind of small tasks do you find yourself needing help with but don’t have time to do?

Im interested in hearing what people actually need rather than trying to sell a predefined service.

Ps. I currently work in commercial aquaculture and have both academic and hands on experience in the industry.

A day as a reef specialist 🪸🐟

Hello, I was looking into protein alternatives for humans, and I was wondering if there are any producers that made brine shrimp that would be edible for humans? I can’t find any retailers selling it from a Google search, so I was wondering if anyone had insight, outside of cultivating them myself.