Supporting invasive species week 2018!

By Pauline Davey*UK.- It’s the start on Invasive Species Week 2018 and we’re very pleased to again be supporting this important initiative from the Non-Native ...

Interreg funded PRIMROSE to develop new system to help monitor harmful algal bloom events and climate change on aquaculture sector

Galway, Ireland.- The Marine Institute are lead partners in the Interreg funded project PRIMROSE, which is developing a new system application that helps predict the ...

Canadian Government Receiving Royalties from Genetically Modified Salmon Sales

Halifax and Vancouver, Canada.- The Canadian government is receiving 10% royalties from sales of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) animal, a ...

Vital Oyster Research Initiated at Island University Thanks to Two Texas Sea Grant Awards

Corpus Christi, USA.- Two Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi professors, Dr. Jennifer Pollack, associate professor of marine biology, and Dr. John Scarpa, associate professor of aquaculture, ...

Aquaculture: looking at the potential for corn growers

USA.- The National Corn Growers Association recently attended the Aquaculture America Conference to learn more about the industry and make connections with companies to discuss ...

U.S. Congress Acts to Place Imported Shrimp Under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program

USA.- The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) is extremely pleased to report that the final Fiscal Year 2018 Omnibus appropriations bill includes a long sought-after provision ...

Scientists study spawning salmon through a riverbed lens

USA.- Each year on the United Nations-designated World Water Day, March 22, people around the world consider the importance of fresh water to ecosystems and ...

Five urgent water issues for policymakers

Germany.- In the run-up to the Bundestag elections in 2017, the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany’s largest research center for ...

Predicting the impact of global warming on disease proliferation

Dublin, Ireland.- Scientists have devised a method for predicting how rising global temperatures are likely to affect the severity of diseases mediated by parasites. Their ...

Emergency transplanting of oyster now allowed for selected waters

Baton Rouge, USA.- Oysters in Lake Borgne and the Mississippi Sound (known as harvest areas 1 and 2) can now be transplanted to other waters. ...