Norway.- Bhaktapur is nearly 1,000 kilometres away from the nearest ocean. Nevertheless, the Nepalese have good levels of marine fatty acids in their blood. The ...

Germany.- Fishes perceive changes in water currents caused by prey, conspecifics and predators using their lateral line. The tiny sensors of this organ also allow ...

Poland.- A new type of wound dressing could improve thousands of people’s lives, by preventing them from developing infections. The dressing, a type of compression ...

USA.- A fish called “Coco” is lending a fin and, more importantly, much needed DNA to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Auburn University researchers. ...

Halifax, Canada.- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved the use of mechanically-extracted camelina oil as a feed ingredient for farmed salmon and trout.

USA.- The genome of the fuel-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M ...

Norway.- Whether fish is processed before or after rigor mortis can be significant for the quality of the fish product. What is best depends on ...

Thailand.- Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a novel RNA virus resembling Orthomyxovirus. It has been reported as a newly emerging virus that causes syncytial hepatitis ...

Berlin, Germany.- Around half of the world’s fish consumed comes from aquaculture production. But in order to effectively relieve aquatic ecosystems, fish farming needs to ...

Japan.- The mechanism behind oil synthesis within microalgae cells has been revealed by a Japanese research team. This discovery could contribute to the development of ...