Only a balanced approach to ocean and inland aquaculture will nourish the world

Penang, Malaysia – New research published in Nature Communications questions scientific and policy narratives around the potential of ocean aquaculture to solely contribute to food ...

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Global Ocean Data in the Palm of Your Hand: UMITRON Launches the Pulse Mobile Application for Marine Farmers

UMITRON PTE. LTD. (Singapore, Co-founder/ Managing director Masahiko Yamada, hereinafter UMITRON) is making it even easier to access ocean environmental data with the release of ...

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Americans don’t eat enough fish and miss out on robust health benefits

By Michael Tlusty*Eating fish can provide powerful advantages for the heart and brain, yet Americans eat less than half of the 26 pounds per year ...

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Seafood mislabeling is having negative impacts on the marine environment

Media outlets, governments, academics, and NGOs are increasingly recognizing and documenting seafood fraud. Policies are being designed and revamped in an attempt to reduce seafood ...

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Funding for salmon drugs may help lower cost of treating deadly human diseases

UK – The University of Glasgow has received funding to repurpose drugs that are currently used to treat some parasitic diseases in humans – Sleeping ...

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Iloilo mudworm likes it dark, study finds

The Philippines – The world is hungry for worms, marine worms. Every year, an estimated 121,000 tons of the tiny burrowers, called polychaetes, are dug ...

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Research breakthrough achieves fish-free aquaculture feed that raises key standards

By Allison Arteaga Soergel*After six years of research, a team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz has developed a cost-effective new aquaculture ...

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Seaweed extract found to have promising effects in brain cancer treatment

A compound found in brown seaweeds could help to treat one of the most common and aggressive forms of malignant brain tumour.

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EUMOFA: “The EU Fish Market” 2020 edition is now online

EUMOFA has released the 2020 Edition of “The EU Fish Market”. We invite you to read the report highlights in this newsletter, and to download ...

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Infection by parasites disturbs flight behaviour in shoals of fish

Germany – In order to escape predators, many fish – including insects, fish and birds – have developed strategies for rapidly transmitting information on threats ...

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