Sustainable Aquaculture Group Postgraduate Research Students contributed to the very lively 5th Institute of Aquaculture Postgraduate Research Conference on 17th April 2018. The day featured 14 oral presentations and 24 posters. Writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry hosted the event and other invited speakers included Dr Iain Berrill from the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation, Professor Sandra Adams from the Institute of Aquaculture and Heather Jones from the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre.

Dimitar Taskov talks about his poster at the 2018 PhD conference

Sustainable Aquaculture Group contributions included:

Near field waste dispersion modelling with the use of numerical hydrodynamic model outputs.
Anastasios Baltadakis, Lynne Falconer and Trevor Telfer

Nutrient loading models for freshwater aquaculture - A comparison of the OECD and Dillon-Rigler models
Akpojotor O. Ekpeki, Lynne Falconer and Trevor Telfer

Examination of competitive strategies in the UK aquaculture industry
Dimitar Taskov, Francis Murray, John Bostock and David Little

Reproductive performance and offspring (larvae and juveniles) quality of non-ablated pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) under commercial scale conditions
Simao Zacarias, Stefano Carboni, Andrew Davie and David C. Little