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.
Richard Newton, Wesley Malcorps, Bjorn Kok and David Little recently worked with colleagues from the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Aberdeen to look at how micronutrients in feed fish could be most efficiently utilised for human nutrition.
Dave Little and Richard Newton participated in the kick-off meetings for the DANIDA funded ‘Climate resilient aquatic food systems for healthy lives of young women and girls in Bangladesh project’ aka the AQUAFOOD project.
Wesley Malcorps was an invited speaker at the IFFO Annual Conference in South Africa, presenting on seafood sustainability and the importance of traceability.
Professor Dave Little was recently featured on the University of Stirling news pages for his contribution to a new paper entitled “Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation”
John Bostock and Wesley Malcorps visited Poland under the EU SAFE project to start working with Polish Partners, The West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) to study carp production systems and value chains