During October 2024, Simão Zacarias attended the Responsible Seafood Summit in St Andrews – Scotland and presented on “The Paths to Viable Alternatives to Shrimp Eyestalk Ablation”
Dr Richard Newton participated in the “International Fisheries and Aquaculture Conference - Ways to a Circular Economy” in September 2024 in Madrid, Spain, representing the SAFE project.
With supporf from the Fishmongers’ Company, the Institute of Aquaculture recently hosted a workshop on conservation aquaculture for wild Atlantic salmon management.
Congratulations to Alexandra Pounds and John Bostock, whose paper on Open Educational Resources was one of Springer’s most downloaded publications in the field of Aquaculture and Aquatic Science in 2019.
Between April and August 2019, Systems Group staff supervised ten Sustainable Aquaculture MSc projects of which eight were presented at a seminar during the closing week of the course.
Simão Zacarias is currently in Thailand for the last research trials of his PhD on offspring (larvae, post-larvae and juveniles) produced from non-ablated broodstock.
The Aquaculture Systems Group welcomed the visit of John Paterson & Frazer Lang (Chairman and CEO respectively) of the Scottish Africa Business Association (SABA) to discuss possible future collaborations.
Professor David Little attended the recent Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy (ANHA) in Hyderabad, India where he interviewed Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Former Assistant Director General of WorldFish and pioneer of the blue revolution in Asia.
Funding your studies is something that every Masters student will have to think about. With fees, living costs and often travel to pay for, the costs can stack up. 2015-16 Sustainable Aquaculture MSc student Julien Stevens found an enterprising way around this - crowd funding his research.