Education & academia

Plans to develop a $45 million mussel hatchery in New Zealand are gaining momentum, thanks to a collaborative training project that's taking place between Cawthron Institute researchers and Te-Whānau-ā-Apanui.

A new initiative has been launched in Scotland to encourage school pupils to eat farmed salmon.

A Scottish research collaboration has learned that green LEDs could be crucial in extracting a valuable ingredient for health and wellbeing supplements from microalgae.

Earthworm Foundation, an international non-profit undertaking social and environmental projects, is partnering with BioMar in a bid to improve the sustainability of Ecuador's shrimp aquaculture industry.

Mussels are able to anchor themselves to rocks underwater through natural adhesion – and researchers are hoping to use these adhesive proteins on dry land.

Applications are now open for Kvarøy Arctic’s third scholarship programme – which offers two annual scholarships that support the further education, research and career development of women in the aquaculture sector.

Scientists from the University of Missouri are focusing their efforts on diatoms, hoping to learn how to maximise the full environmental benefits of the green algae.

Bendik Fyhn Terjesen, who is head of land-based innovation and development at Cermaq Group, will combine his work in Cermaq with a professor II position at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture at Nord University in…

Wageningen University and Research (WUR) has launched Wageningen Aquaculture Research and Education (W-ARE) – in a bid to ramp up its capacity for research and education in aquaculture.

Phileo by Lesaffre has unveiled a functional nutrition programme for tilapia farming, increasing its footprint in aquaculture.

A new study from the University of Bonn in Germany has yielded an unexpected finding – that cichlids and stingrays can perform simple addition and subtraction in the number range of one to five.

Israeli startup Wanda Fish Technologies will accelerate production of its cell-cultured fish alongside David Kaplan, a leading researcher in cellular agriculture at Tufts University.

A new method can extract edible plant-based oils from a common type of microalgae – giving product manufacturers a more sustainable alternative to palm oil.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has advertised two vacancies – one for an aquaculture innovation officer and another for the skills and talent division – and will accept applications until mid-April.

Sailesh Chudasama believes that biofloc production – of species including shrimp, tilapia and catfish – can create well-paid jobs and improve food security, both in Ghana and beyond.

Researchers from James Cook University have mapped the complete genome for Australian tiger prawns, potentially unlocking disease resistance and productivity gains for the aquaculture sector.

AltaSea, a Los Angeles-based non-profit focused on climate change and job creation, has secured a $600,000 grant for hands-on blue economy and aquaculture educational programmes.

Ghent University has announced today that it is looking to hire an associate or full professor of aquaculture to join its Department of Animal Sciences and Aquatic Ecology.

A rare opportunity to study the carbon sequestration potential of a newly planted kelp forest in Namibia is currently being offered by the University of Cambridge.

A new £1.7 million research effort from Scotland's Roslin Institute and the University of Stirling's Institute of Aquaculture hopes to identify genetic mechanisms that could make Atlantic salmon more resistant to sea lic…