What is LIMAQUA? Inside Africa's Marine Aquaculture Research Lab

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 aquaculture technologies, with a focus on integrated systems and animal health. Dr. Maria Darias is a research professor at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), based in South Africa, whose work sits at the intersection of aquaculture and human nutrition.Together they explain what nutrition-sensitive aquaculture means, why Africa has some of the lowest marine aquaculture production in the world despite its coastal potential, and what LIMAQUA is doing about it. The conversation covers integrated abalone and seaweed systems, the nutritional profiling of farmed species, the circular economy potential of aquaculture byproducts, and how LIMAQUA is building capacity across the continent through its Africa-wide research network, AFRIMAQUA.This episode was produced in partnership with the LIMAQUA programme.