During October 2024, Simão Zacarias attended the Responsible Seafood Summit in St Andrews – Scotland and presented on “The Paths to Viable Alternatives to Shrimp Eyestalk Ablation”
Dr Richard Newton participated in the “International Fisheries and Aquaculture Conference - Ways to a Circular Economy” in September 2024 in Madrid, Spain, representing the SAFE project.
With supporf from the Fishmongers’ Company, the Institute of Aquaculture recently hosted a workshop on conservation aquaculture for wild Atlantic salmon management.
Congratulations to Alexandra Pounds and John Bostock, whose paper on Open Educational Resources was one of Springer’s most downloaded publications in the field of Aquaculture and Aquatic Science in 2019.
Richard Newton has recently been working with the Marine Ingredients Organisation to revisit Fish In: Fish Out ratios (FIFOs) which have often been used by NGOs and certifiers as a measure of how efficiently marine resources are utilised in aquafeeds
Alexandra Pounds, in collaboration with Dr. Faruk Islam at Practical Action, visited rice farms and fish markets in Rangpur District in early December.
An interdisciplinary team led by Dr Francis Murray of the Systems Group has developed a pioneering tool that will minimise environmental and occupational health risks associated with the use of probiotics in shrimp farming.
John Bostock attended this Curriculum Development for Sustainable Seafood Security Teachers Training Programme at Nong Lamh University HCMC and Can Tho University, Vietnam between 25-30th November 2019
Dave Little spoke as part of an expert panel at this FAO Symposium where he emphasized the nexus between fish production systems and the wide range of consumers nutrition availability and needs towards human health.
Dr Richard Newton visited the annual Qindao Fisheries and Aquaculture Expo where he was involved in data collection on Sustainability Messaging for the EU funded GAIN project