New knowledge on stunning and bleeding fish
Norway.- Capture and handling related stressors influencing the amount of blood in fish muscle. Controlled slaughtering (stunning, bleeding and gutting) of fish immediately when they ...
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Finland.- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) is studying best methods to cultivate the common duckweed in aquaculture facilities – and to use it as fish ...
Read moreMississippi State leads global aquaculture project
USA.- Mississippi State University will lead a new $15 million federal initiative to reduce poverty and improve living standards for impoverished populations dependent on aquaculture-led ...
Read moreClimate change poses significant threat to nutritional benefits of oysters
UK.- The nutritional qualities of shellfish could be significantly reduced by future ocean acidification and warming, a new study suggests.
Read moreThe English version of the FISHWELL Atlantic salmon welfare handbook is out now
Norwegian.- The Norwegian version of the FISHWELL handbook on welfare indicators for Atlantic salmon has been available for over a year. From today, the handbook ...
Read moreThe caviar market: Production, trade and consumption in and outside the EU
EUMOFA (European market observatory for fisheries and aquaculture products) has recently published a study on “The caviar market. Production, trade and consumption in and outside ...
Read moreGlobal project launched to protect marine biodiversity
New York, USA.- A new international effort to combat the negative environmental impacts of the transfer of aquatic species through ships has been launched this ...
Read moreNew biocontainment strategy controls spread of escaped GMOs
Japan.- Hiroshima University (HU) researchers successfully developed a biocontainment strategy for genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Their new method prevents genetically modified cyanobacteria from surviving ...
Read moreSteroid synthesis discovery could rewrite the textbooks
Australia.- Steroids are essential molecules for life in all complex organisms such as animals and plants. Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, ...
Read moreCanada’s Seafood Farmers Launch National Youth Initiative
Ottawa, Canada.- The Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) announced today the official launch of its National Youth Council.
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