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A Forest with No Canopy

By Harrison Tasoff*Santa Barbara, USA – A lush canopy is a defining feature of most of the planet’s forests. But canopy-forming species can be particularly ...

Alternative to fishing – cell-based fish from the bioreactor

München, Germany – Already about 90 percent of all fish stocks are considered maximally exploited or overfished, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...

Climate change poses threat to ‘tuna dependent’ Pacific Islands economies

by Benjamin Long*Australia – Climate change-driven redistribution of key commercial tuna species will deliver an economic blow to the small island states of the Western ...

New PhD Scholarship honours Tasmanian aquaculture researcher

Australia – A new University of Tasmania PhD scholarship honouring Tasmanian aquaculture biologist Dr Harry King, who lost his battle with prostate cancer in 2019, ...

B.C. Salmon Farmers launch innovation and technology report update

Campbell River, Canada – The B.C. Salmon Farmers Association launched its 2021 Innovation and Technology Report Update – highlighting innovation, progress and accomplishments made across ...

Aquafeed: Calling on investors to engage

Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has through several years covered how illegally caught fish from occupied Western Sahara is transformed into fishmeal and fishoil, and ...

Fleming establishes two new research centres with provincial and federal funding

Peterborough, Canada – Fleming College has been awarded nearly $8 million in long-term funding for two new applied research centres in the fields of advanced ...

New tool to improve ‘cleaner fish’ welfare in salmon farming

Researchers at the University of Stirling have developed a new tool that fish farmers can use to improve the welfare of lumpfish – a species ...

Hope for the groupers

In Brazil, declining populations of grouper make it one of the country’s endangered species. However, Claudia Kerber, a former SEAFDEC/AQD trainee, is at the forefront ...

EU-Funded TechOceanS Project Developing New Microsensors for Environmental Ocean Monitoring

The EU-funded project, TechOceanS (Technologies for Ocean Sensing) is developing innovative microsensors that have the potential to revolutionise how we measure and monitor the world’s ...