The fearsome-looking creature on the cover of this month’s magazine is a pike-perch, also known as a zander. In Continental Europe, it is recognised as a high-quality fish for the table, but it has proved difficult to farm at any significant scale – up until now, at least.
As Mark Sallmann at Kaiserzander in Germany explains, pike-perch are now being raised in recirculating aquaculture systems on a commercial basis. Find out more about this premium freshwater fish, and how Kaiserzander found a formula for farming it, starting on page 38.