Parasites Associated with Eating Fish Showing Up in Southern California Fishing Locales

by Robert Monroe, UC San Diego Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego discovered that a snail species carrying human-infecting flatworms known ...

$1.25M award to increase kampachi, shrimp production

by UH News Improving the reproduction of kampachi (also known as longfin yellowtail or Almaco Jack) and Pacific white shrimp in Hawaiʻi is the focus ...

New study encourages harvesting, consuming wider variety of fish

by Hugh Markey, University of Rhode Island It’s better to harvest many fish species lightly than to harvest few species heavily. That’s the result of ...

New research tool offers industry benefits

by Reidun Lilleholt Kraugerud, Nofima What goes on behind the scenes at research facilities may be of great interest to the industry. Once again the ...

Study reveals migration law and recycling strategy of nitrogen in innovative recirculating aquaculture system

by Li Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences In aquaculture, scientific introduction of nitrogen is necessary to achieve economic production and prevent environmental pollution. Litopenaeus vannamei ...

Study explores dosage-effectiveness of modified clay flocculating red tide organisms

by Li Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Red tide is a global marine ecological disaster. Currently, the main remediation technology employed for red tide control ...

Gut bacteria are essential for development of social behavior in fish

by Public Library of Science Microorganisms are essential for normal social development in zebrafish via their influence on pruning of neural connections in the developing ...

Aston University researchers ‘feed’ leftover coffee grounds to microalgae to produce low emission biodiesel

by Aston University Two Aston University researchers have produced high-quality biodiesel after ‘feeding’ and growing microalgae on leftover coffee grounds. Dr Vesna Najdanovic, senior lecturer ...

Learning to Better Understand the Language of Algae

by Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Communication is everything – and that applies for algae, too. However, their chemical language and its significance in ...

Plankton zombies for Halloween!

by Ivy Kupec, EMBL Marine parasites invade single-celled microalgae, devouring the nucleus and hijacking metabolism while the organism remains alive. It’s a tale as old ...