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.
A workshop- ‘Building a sustainable seafood sector through collaboration’ attracted a diverse range of participants at the University of Stirling on Friday January 19th
Wesley Malcorps, shares a video of his work on how a circular economy can be enabled for the utilisation of fish processing waste using blockchain technologies.
Jules Wehry reports on the findings of his MSc project on the potential for using insect larvae fed on distillery by-products as a substitute for fishmeal in Atlantic salmon feed.
As one of the main dissemination outputs for the EU GAIN project, the Stirling team led the development of five free self-paced online course which are now available on the platform OpenLearn Create.
Wesley Malcorps shares research from the GAIN project on how seafood is advertised at international seafood shows to get a better understanding of signalling of perceptions and values around seafood products; and also on further analysis of processing by-product utilisation potential.