Lobster industry on the menu for Tasmania

Australia.- The Morrison Government is funding Tasmanian research to establish the world’s first sustainable onshore lobster aquaculture industry.

A Super Shrimp Designed at BGU Could Help Prevent a Disease that Affects 250 Million People

Israel.- Could single-sex prawns serve the triple goal of alleviating poverty, protecting the environment and reducing disease? BGU researchers Prof. Amir Sagi, who also serves ...

Image Analysis Aids Development of Aquaculture Vaccine Strategy Based on Protein Nanoparticles

Barcelona, Spain.- With the increasing threat of viral diseases to aquaculture, there is an urgent need for new types of vaccines that are efficient and ...

New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations

Canada.- Three new viruses—including one from a group of viruses never before shown to infect fish—have been discovered in endangered Chinook and sockeye salmon populations.

USSEC successfully launches international aquaculture feed formulation database in Latin America

USSEC organized two seminars and workshops focusing on sustainable aqua nutrition and feed formulation in Guadalajara, Mexico & Guayaquil, Ecuador, respectively, where aquaculture production is ...

Research grant supports reduction in aquaculture antibiotics

Canada.- Aquaculture – or fish farming – is an increasingly important food production source. One that is anticipated to help fill the supply-demand gap as ...

ODU Launches Open Seas Technology Innovation Hub

USA.- In conjunction with the unveiling of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Aug. 29, Old Dominion University is launching the Open Seas Technology ...

Seafood processing plants are harsh environments for human workers

by Laura Castañón*USA.- Advanced sensing, automation, and artificial intelligence are changing workplaces in many industries. But these changes don’t have to mean that robots are ...

Researchers suggest seaweed farming could be a versatile tool in the effort to mitigate climate change

By Sonia Fernandez*Santa Barbara, USA.- According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), addressing carbon emissions from our food sector is absolutely essential to ...

Mussels could ‘tough out’ climate change

UK.- Global environmental change is generally bad news for life on Earth. But the future may not be entirely doom and gloom. Cambridge biologist Luca ...