More sustainable and competitive fish, a strategy for relaunching Mediterranean fish farming

The MedAID project, coordinated by IAMZ-CIHEAM and IRTA, has carried out a global diagnosis of sea bass and gilt-head bream aquaculture in the Mediterranean to ...

Farmed seafood supply at risk if we don’t act on climate change

The supply of farmed seafood such as salmon and mussels are projected to drop 16 per cent globally by 2090 if no action is taken ...

Tropical fish…up north? How ocean physics play a role in altering water temperature and salinity

Woods Hole, MA — A study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists is explaining why warm and salty water along with warm water fish ...

New bioinformatics tool spots hybrid fish that threaten the survival of natural tilapia populations in aquaculture

A new genomics marker tool has been shown to accurately identify tilapia species and tell apart their hybrids, providing a novel resource to help develop ...

New Report Assesses the Feasibility, Cost, and Potential Impacts of Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Approaches

Washington – To better understand the potential risks and benefits of removing or sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide using ocean-based interventions — for example, by cultivating ...

Meet the Oystamaran

By Michaela Jarvis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, ...

Multiple indicators of wastewater contamination to shellfish farms

Human wastewater poses a global threat to seafood safety and the financial stability of the aquaculture industry. A recent study by researchers at the Dauphin ...

In the neighborhood of microalgae, location is key to bacterial carbon use

By Anne M Stark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Microscopic algae are responsible for half of the global atmospheric carbon fixed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and ...

Long-term exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of pesticides has deleterious effects on shellfish

By Shaun McGillis, Portland State University A New Study Examines The Effects Of Four Pesticides Registered For Use In Forest Management On The Soft-Shell Clam, Mya ...

Auckland Council to fund seaweed farming pilot in Hauraki Gulf

Auckland Council have earmarked $1.2 million to support the success of a Hauraki Gulf seaweed pilot farm project, which if successful, would scale up regenerative ...