Belgium.- Ghent University and the Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Research (ILVO) have launched the project “North Sea Aquaculture”, together with their partners: Belwind, ...

Kiel, Germany.- Iron is a critical nutrient in the ocean. Its importance for algae and the nitrogen cycle has already been investigated in detail. Now ...

USA.- Plant biologists have sequenced the genome of a particularly promising species of green alga, providing a blueprint for new discoveries in producing sustainable biofuels, ...

Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement is crucial to understanding the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. EU-funded research feeds into a new study that ...

Omega-3 fatty acids play an important role in our diets in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and for normal vision and brain functions. We eat ...

Finland.- Cohort after cohort, fishing typically removes large fish from the population and can lead to rapid evolutionary changes in exploited fish populations. A new ...

Japan.- The aquatic environment is full of tantalizing chemicals that can guide a fish to mates or meals. Now, scientists in Japan have identified the ...

The ERNACT network of regions is delighted to announce that the ‘SAFER – Smart Atlantic Seafood Clusters’ innovation project has been approved and co-funded by ...

Madrid, Spain.- Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and University of Florence are developing a bio-inspired robot equipped with special chemical sensors able to detect ...