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Blind trust in the blue economy can be a big mistake

Amid increased focus on seafood for more sustainable and healthy diets, researchers reveal three flawed assumptions about seafood production and consumption.

Vaccine promise in marine extracts

By Tania Bawden*Australia – Scientists are exploring whether unique Australian marine bio-sources could enhance vaccines, with active ingredients in local sea cucumbers identified as holding ...

Healthy people and a healthy planet: Can aquaculture help transform our food systems?

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition is today announcing the launch of its new brief,  Harnessing aquaculture for healthy diets. 

PLOCAN participates in the H2020 funded MUSICA project, which aims to build, install and operate a floating Multi-use Platform (MUP)

Spain – The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) participates as a partner in the European project MUSICA: Multiple-use-of Space for Island Clean Autonomy ...

Producing cooking food grade fish oil with leftovers from the mackerel filleting process

Norway – A new refining process developed by the Nofima research institute now enables mackerel fillet producers to manufacture a high-quality oil from the residual ...

Scientists discover new parasite species able to infect toxic microalgae in the Baltic Sea

Spain – Parasitism is one of the most relevant biological mechanisms for the regulation of populations. Parasitism interactions are very common in nature, as are ...

Published Academic Study Confirms Higher Prevalence of Anti-Microbial Resistant Bacteria in Imported, Farm-Raised Shrimp

On Tuesday, Nature’s Scientific Reports published an article by Laxmi Sharma, Dhruv Patel, Dr. Ravinder Nagpal, and Dr. Prashant Singh of Florida State University and ...

Why overfishing leads to smaller cod

Overfishing, hunting and intensive agriculture and forestry can sometimes contribute to plants and animals becoming endangered. New research from Lund University in Sweden and University ...

RESMED: knowing about and protecting the marine littoral of the Pyrenees

Acoustic telemetry to study the movement of fish, citizen science, common protocols of work and collaboration with managers and fishermen are some of the essential ...

Stanford analysis shows plastic ingestion by marine fish is a widespread and growing problem

By Isabella Backman*Stanford ecologists have conducted one of the most detailed and comprehensive analyses of plastic ingestion by marine fish and shown that the rate ...