Learn from past to protect oceans

UK.- History holds valuable lessons – and stark warnings – about how to manage fisheries and other ocean resources, a new study says. Researchers examined ...

Development application for world first commercial lobster hatchery

Tasmania, Australia.- A Development Application was today lodged with Kingborough Council for construction of the world’s first commercial-scale rock lobster hatchery at the IMAS Taroona ...

SEANET’s Legacy: The impact of interdisciplinary aquaculture research on the state of Maine

Maine, USA.- In January 2020, Maine EPSCoR’s Research Infrastructure Improvement Track 1 project, the Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET), was officially completed. However, the legacy ...

Indonesian start-up adapts app to support shrimp farmers through COVID-19 crisis

Smallholders are most vulnerable to changing market dynamics. Around 400 shrimp farmers, around 200 of whom are smallholders, participate in IDH’s Banyuwangi (East Java) sustainable ...

Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance

Montpellier, France.- Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 700 000 deaths each year worldwide. In relation to this phenomenon, a team of researchers from IRD ...

FRI develops a low-fishmeal grouper feed to increase the income of aquaculture farmers

Taiwan.- As the demand for fishmeal increases, prices have also risen in lockstep year by year. In order to lower feed cost and seek sustainable ...

Coral-inspired biomaterials could lead to efficient biofuel production

USA.- Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and their colleagues have designed ...

Cleaner fish being sacrificed in the fight against salmon lice

By Guro Kulset Merakerås, Norwegian SciTech NewsResearch shows that even fish farmers have doubts as to whether using cleaner fish is an effective delousing method. ...

New means developed to reduce nutrient loads of recirculating aquaculture systems

Finland.- The joint project of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and the University of Jyväskylä developed a cost-effective ...

Genetics expertise could transform fish production

UK.- A recent review of research highlights how genetics can support development of sustainable aquaculture for global food security.