Aquaculture: Environmental‐friendly treatment for fish diseases

By Angelina Tittmann*Germany – Velvet disease is a dreaded ailment. This infection is caused by dinoflagellates of the genera Amyloodinium and Piscinoodinium, and affects freshwater ...

Case study: Smoked eel in the EU

EUMOFA has published a new Price Structure Analysis on “Smoked eel in the EU”. The study analyses eel production and market trends in the EU, ...

Skretting and Proteon Pharmaceuticals to introduce novel phage technology for aquaculture

Skretting announces a collaboration with Proteon Pharmaceuticals aimed at providing functional solutions to tackle health challenges in the aquaculture industry. The companies will co-develop products ...

Calling All Innovators in the World of Aquaculture!

USA – The Global Aquaculture Challenge is accepting applications for the chance at an 8-12 week mentorship program, plus the chance at a $100,000 price ...

Microalgae with water fleas can treat aquaculture wastewater and prevent loss of nutrients

Bioremediation means the use of organisms to clean contaminated water or soil. In his dissertation at the University of Jyväskylä, Čedomir Stevčić studied the combined ...

UMaine and Maine Sea Grant support effort to boost sea urchin farming in New England

USA – A team of researchers, aquaculture production specialists and educators in Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire will be working to help transform the ...

OSU researchers prove fish-friendly detection method to be more sensitive than electrofishing

By Molly Rosbach*Corvallis, USA – Delivering a minor electric shock into a stream to reveal any fish lurking nearby may be the gold standard for ...

New tool for assessing the benefits, risks and sustainability of the consumption of fish

Spain – Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili’s (Tarragona) research group TecnATox have optimized the website FishChoice, which helps to consume fish and seafood ...

Making protein ‘superfood’ from marine algae

Australia – Marine microalgae-based cellular agriculture is a promising new way to sustainably produce plant-based ‘meat’ and healthy ‘superfoods’ for the future.

A fish released from an aquarium into nature may be an invasive alien species

Finland – The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) has investigated risks associated with 17 invasive alien species classified to be harmful in the EU, the ...