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.
Richard Newton, Wesley Malcorps, Bjorn Kok and David Little recently worked with colleagues from the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Aberdeen to look at how micronutrients in feed fish could be most efficiently utilised for human nutrition.
Dave Little and Richard Newton participated in the kick-off meetings for the DANIDA funded ‘Climate resilient aquatic food systems for healthy lives of young women and girls in Bangladesh project’ aka the AQUAFOOD project.
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.
This was the title of the first Big Fish seminar of 2022 which looked at different fish consumption patterns and approaches to reducing waste from fish consumption around the world.
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.