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.
Research on strategies for mixed-sex tilapia production has been published in the journal “Aquaculture”, suggesting there are particularly opportunities for larger companies targeting urban markets sensitive to environmental and welfare messaging.
In a new Nature publication we make the case that freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research.
A new, large-scale study into prawn and shrimp production in southwest Bangladesh has found that the industry is crucial to public health and prosperity, whilst being climate-resilient, contrary to its reputation.
We are pleased to launch the HotFish podcasts. These are a series of conversations around the implications of climate change in different aquaculture and aquatic food contexts.
An article by Dave Little and Richard Newton on the role of blue foods in a more sustainable future was published in The Conversation on 22nd September 2021.
A series of three articles by Alexandra Pounds on the theme of “Precision Aquaculture” has been published by Global Aquaculture Advocate with accompanying videos.
New publication on the survival of L. vannamei offspring from ablated and non-ablated female broodstock when challenged with Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) and White Spot Disease.
The Sustainable Aquaculture Group have been working with WorldFish and other partners to document and understand the ways in which the covid-19 pandemic is affecting stakeholders in seafood value chains.
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.
A report on Europe-Asia collaboration in training and education by John Bostock and an article on the economics of using Open Educational Resources in aquaculture education by Alexandra Pounds are now availble.