Removing flavour from fish offcuts
Nofima’s doctoral research fellow Silje Steinsholm has used a magnetic tongue to identify flavours that may make fish offcuts suitable for human consumption. On 12 ...
Read moreGuidelines support COVID-safe fish transporting
By Kate McMahon*Approximately 200 metric tons of live fish are transported to markets every day in Bangladesh. The onset of COVID-19 disrupted these transportation networks ...
Read moreAre Norwegians ready to eat seaweed?
According to a recent survey conducted by Nofima, many people are positive about eating seaweed and kelp, despite the fact that many know little about ...
Read moreHow much is a clam worth to a coastal community?
USA – Researchers have developed a method to estimate the value of oyster and clam aquaculture to nitrogen reduction in a coastal community. Nitrogen is ...
Read moreAquatic biodiversity key to sustainable, nutrient-rich diets
Canada – Seafood is a pillar of global food security—long recognized for its protein content. But research is highlighting a critical new link between the ...
Read moreMaking cleaner, greener plastics from waste fish parts
Washington, USA – Polyurethanes, a type of plastic, are nearly everywhere — in shoes, clothes, refrigerators and construction materials. But these highly versatile materials can ...
Read moreUNE researchers examine kelp farming’s benefits to the ecosystem
Biddeford, USA – As aquaculture expands off coasts around the globe, Carrie Byron, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Programs, is ...
Read moreNew international study shows alternative seafood networks provided resilient diversity during pandemic
Ontario, Canada – In a new peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, research led by the University of Maine shows that local ...
Read moreAnimal Welfare: Science has not kept pace with aquaculture
New York, USA – Aquaculture–the farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic animals for food–has reached unprecedented levels of growth in recent years, but largely ...
Read moreTilapias are not precocious, they are just resilient
Canada – Tilapias living in crowded aquaculture ponds or small freshwater reservoirs adapt so well to these stressful environments that they stop growing and reproduce ...
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