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
ThinkAqua recently coordinated a review of global aquaculture on behalf of the Sustainable Aquaculture Working Group of the Blue Food Partnership, World Economic Forum.
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.
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.
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.
Tori Spence-McConnell, Senior Aquaculture Scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium, visited the Institute of Aquaculture to give a seminar on the Aquarium's 'Seafood Watch' programme to help consumers and businesses make choices for a healthy ocean.
Researchers in the Sustainable Aquaculture Research Group have recently published a new article “Investigation of a novel approach for aquaculture site selection”.