Sustainable Aquaculture @ Stirling

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.

The EU funded SmartAqua4FuturE (SAFE) project held its third annual consortium meeting in Szczecin (Northern Poland) in September 2024.

With supporf from the Fishmongers’ Company, the Institute of Aquaculture recently hosted a workshop on conservation aquaculture for wild Atlantic salmon management.

Stirling members of the SAFE project team joined the major AQUA2024 Conference from 26-30th August in Copenhagen.

Alex Pounds introduces a book of poetry developed from her PhD research in Sindo, Kenya

Participants from the EU funded SAFE project visited carp farms in the Chinese Province of Guangdong.to collect data on the farming systems there.

As part of the Small Tilapia Matters project we have produced a spreadsheet to help compare tilapia production strategies in tropical cages.

Dr Alexander Kaminski answers questions about his recent publication “Growing smaller fish for inclusive markets? Increasing stocking density and shortening the production cycle of Nile tilapia in cages on Lake Victoria”

Professor David Little shares his contribution to a workshop on fish seed supply for aquaculture organised by the FAO in Szarvas, Hungary.

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.

We have a PhD studentship available: “Investigating comprehensive sustainability indicators for global aquaculture”

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.

The second annual meeting of the Horizon Europe project “SmartAqua4FuturE” (SAFE) was held in Logroño in La Rioja region of Spain in November 2023.

Dave Little, Richard Newton and Wesley Malcorps recently appeared on “The Business of Aquaculture” podcast

Congratulations to Steph Horn and Arsénio Hilinganye on successfully passing their PhD vivas.

Congratulations to Professor Dave Little, who was recently included in the Clarivate list of most highly cited researchers globally

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

Professor Dave Little was invited to give evidence to the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission on the perceived impact on UK food standards of the UK joining the CPTPP.

Congratulations to Wesley Malcorps and Alexander Kaminski for successfully completing their PhD studies

Simão Zacarias and Richard Newton report on their participation in the Shrimp Summit in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam

Professor Dave Little reports on his participation at the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit

Recent work in Bangladesh finds adolescent girls are at risk of nutritional deficiencies even in areas with aquaculture and other seafood production.

Stuart Bunting shares some key findings from a recent open-access paper entitled ‘Evaluating the potential of innovations across aquaculture product value chains for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh and India’

A workshop- ‘Building a sustainable seafood sector through collaboration’ attracted a diverse range of participants at the University of Stirling on Friday January 19th

As part of our Open Philanthropy funded project on improving farmed fish welfare in Asia we are inviting proposals for short research projects from Thailand and Vietnam.

We are shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely passing of Professor Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain (Ranu) of Bangladesh Agricultural University.

The Institute of Aquaculture hosted an AwayDay to enable PhD students from six universities to network and share their perspectives around the theme “Aquatic Foods in Sustainable Food Systems.”