Stirling members of the SmartAqua4FuturE (SAFE) project team joined the major AQUA2024 Conference from 26-30th August in Copenhagen, which had the overall theme of “Blue Food, Green Solutions”. This was a great opportunity to network with other researchers and meet new industry contacts.
Some of the SAFE project team at the Eurofish International stand
Wesley Malcorps gave an oral presentation on “Enhancing resilience of the European seafood market through a sustainable growth framework for aquaculture”. This was based on work under both the GAIN and SAFE projects.
Wesley Malcorps presenting at AQUA2024
Richard Newton drew on a range of projects including SAFE to give the following presentations:
Developing one health sustainability indicators for aquaculture
Developing an indicator to measure and improve nutritional retention of marine ingredients in aquaculture
Black soldier fly utilisation strategies for affordable tilapia production in East Africa
Richard Newton presenting at AQUA2024
Stephanie Horn gave a presentation entitled “Assessing the envionmental impacts and nutritional outcomes of tilapia farming in Bangladesh”. This was based on her PhD studies with some of the research issues and methods being carried forward into the SAFE project on European freshwater aquaculture systems.
Stephanie Horn presenting at AQUA2024
Stirling PhD candidate Bjorn Kok gave three presentations based on his PhD work and consultancy activities with Blonk Sustainability:
Sustainable aquafeed ingredients? The devil is in the detai
Development of LCA tools for aquaculture production systems
Inclusion of greenhouse gas and nutrient emissions from tropical aquaculture ponds in the environmental footprint of aquaculture
Bjorn Kok presenting at AQUA2024
Mausam Budhathoki, ITN early-stage researcher/PhD student gave a presentation on his research entitled “Consumers’ preferences towards farmed salmon in China: Integrating sensory and choice experiments”. The study was carried out under the financial support from EATFISH project in collaboration with the Shanghai Ocean University.
Mausam Budhathoki presenting at AQUA2024
John Bostock took the opportunity to attend the Industry and Innovation sessions and visit many of the industry exhibitors to obtain data and information useful for the completing value chain studies within the SAFE project.
In addition to the above, there were many other staff and research students from the Institute of Aquaculture at the event with presentations on nutrition, behaviour, welfare and environment.
Some of the staff, students and alumni from the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling attending the conference
Presentations were also contributed by other SAFE project partners including:
A full-scale sequestration of sediments from common carp farm improves biodiversity of the aquatic environment and sets farmers on the circularity path (Remiguisz Panicz , ZUT, Poland)
Co-farmning watercress and duckweed to enhance common carp production (Piotr Eljasik, ZUT, Poland)
Measurement of European seabass in the rearing environment by images taken by cameras above RAS tanks (CIIMAR, Portugal)