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.
Jules Wehry reports on the findings of his MSc project on the potential for using insect larvae fed on distillery by-products as a substitute for fishmeal in Atlantic salmon feed.
Three researchers from the Institute of Aquaculture are currently working with Victory Farms and Unga Farm Care in Kenya to assess alternate production strategies for tilapia in cages.
Research on strategies for mixed-sex tilapia production has been published in the journal “Aquaculture”, suggesting there are particularly opportunities for larger companies targeting urban markets sensitive to environmental and welfare messaging.
In a new Nature publication we make the case that freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research.
As one of the main dissemination outputs for the EU GAIN project, the Stirling team led the development of five free self-paced online course which are now available on the platform OpenLearn Create.
An update from our research work in Bangladesh involving Stephanie Horn (PhD student) and Dr Abdullah Al Mamun’s team from the Noahkhali Science and Technology University.
This was the title of the first Big Fish seminar of 2022 which looked at different fish consumption patterns and approaches to reducing waste from fish consumption around the world.
Dr Richard Newton gave a presentation on “Understanding the environmental footprint of marine ingredients” at a webinar hosted by the Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO).