Education & academia

Israel Yusuf, who is also known as "Dr Fish", is a 41-year-old fish farmer, farm reform advocate, agribusiness development consultant and aquaculture service provider in Nigeria.

An aquaculture expert with the University of Stirling has been awarded £1.5 million for an innovative five-year data project that will help the marine aquaculture sector respond to the impacts of climate change.

Results from an innovative European seaweed research project have laid the foundations to strengthen Europe's seaweed cultivation and biorefining industry.

Pure Salmon, which has plans to produce salmon in land-based RAS facilities in Poland, Japan, USA and France, has decided to establish its headquarters in Abu Dhabi.

A scholarship programme, in memory of aquaculture leader and advocate, Kurt Frederick Grinnell, who lost his life in a tragic car accident in April 2021, has been launched this week.

A new $4 million Centre for Innovative Aquaculture Production (CIAP) has been established at Fleming College in Canada.

A project that aims to improve the health of farmed oysters, in the face of variable water quality, pathogen levels and increasingly unpredictable weather events has been awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the US …

A dozen fully-funded places are currently available for masters degrees in aquaculture-related subjects at the University of Stirling.

A new app to disseminate the latest freshwater aquaculture technologies to the country's fish farmers has been launched this week.

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz are turning to marine microalga as a potential component of low-polluting aquafeed for farm-raised rainbow trout.

A two-week capacity building workshop on the breeding, on-growing, processing and marketing of catfish has just finished in Lagos.

A team of researchers from the University of Western Australia found that processing organic food waste with black soldier fly larvae produced high quality aquafeed for rainbow trout and other key aquaculture species.

Kvarøy Arctic has announced the launch of its second Women in Aquaculture scholarship programme – offering two generously funded places to women looking to gain hands-on experience of the salmon farming sector.

Applications are open for a fully-funded PhD study that will research the impact of harvesting wild wrasse for use as cleaner fish in salmon farms.

The University of St Andrews has announced the offer of ten fully funded places on a masters course in sustainable aquaculture.

Collaboration between researchers and industry players is essential for the sector’s continued growth, according to key figures in the 37-year relationship between INVE (Benchmark Advanced Nutrition) and Ghent University…

A project to assess the US aquaculture industry’s economic viability, impact and management measures – in a bid to reduce the country’s $16.8 billion seafood trade deficit – has been awarded $1 million in grant funding.

More than £4.5m is to be invested in expanding the marine enterprise cluster in Argyll, in a move that paves the way for expansion of Scotland's aquaculture sector, and will create more than 30 well-paid jobs.