New 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 ...

Animal 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 ...

Tilapias 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 ...

Russian biologists discover a transmissible cancer lineage in the Far Eastern mussels

‘A transmissible cancer was first discovered in dogs in the middle of the 19th century. It is transmitted sexually from a sick dog to a ...

Shining, colored LED lighting on microalgae for next-generation biofuel

Washington, USA – As ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels continue to present challenges, such as competing with food security or lacking the technology for more ...

ITC Report Details Significant Impact of IUU Fishing on U.S. Shrimp Market

USA – Last week, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released an exhaustive report of the agency’s findings following an investigation of Seafood Obtained via ...

The immune system of sturgeons

Our doctoral student Christin Höhne has published the first article of her doctoral thesis in the major journal Reviews in Aquaculture. Only recently, colleagues managed ...

The promise of super algae Galdiera – from volcanic springs to your plate

A microalga originally isolated from volcanic springs has all it takes to become the next ‘superfood’ on the market. Compared to Spirulina – a similar ...

‘Dancing’ fish could be key to ridding salmon farms of parasites

AuthorsBenjamin Whittaker Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph Elizabeth Boulding Professor, Integrative Biology, University of Guelph Biologists study the social behaviour of ...

Seafood industry and policy makers call for improved seafood traceability at EU level

Today, stakeholders from across international seafood supply chains discussed best practices and recommendations to secure traceability for seafood products that enter the European Union (EU).