Education & academia

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.

The fledgling North American kelp farming sector has received a boost after Connecticut Sea Grant was awarded a $766,650 federal grant to lead a three-year, multi-state initiative.

The hard work and commitment of Precious Sanjama, a young entrepreneurial Malawian, reflects a new generation of talent emerging in the country’s aquaculture sector.

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed three new board members to its board for 2021.

A number of fully-funded places on masters degree courses at Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture are being offered to women from Southeast Asia.

A brand-new aquaculture facility has been opened in the New Zealand port of Tauranga as part of a $13 million algal biotechnology research project.

Nigeria is well placed to grow its aquaculture sector, helped by a recent training programme, according to the head of the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR).

A new research project hopes to develop a treatment for amoebic gill disease (AGD) by exploiting a vulnerability in the parasite that causes it.

Plans to establish a tropical aquaculture accelerator in Queensland by James Cook University (JCU) have been given a boost by an election commitment of $67 million by the leader of the Liberal National Party.

The Ghana Tilapia Seed (TiSeed) project has successfully trained 227 fish farmers and Fisheries Commission (FC) zonal officers in good aquaculture practices that can help improve productivity and profits.

Increased cultivation of sea sponges has been welcomed by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, but sea sponge aquaculture has become a winning sustainable development strategy for women in Zanzibar.

Over 100 pilot studies involving the aquaculture of low trophic species have been undertaken in the first year of AquaVitae, a major EU-funded project.

Five scholarships on the MSc in Sustainable Aquaculture at the University of Plymouth are now being offered for 2020-2021.