Education & academia

Aquaculture trainees Craig Johnstone and Lori Smith have been short-listed for Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS), which will take place on Thursday 9 March at the Doubletree by Hi…

CIHEAM Zaragoza, together with the NewTechAqua project, is organising an in-depth course for 30 participants on fish nutrition and health from 5 to 9 June 2023 in Spain.

Angela Odero, CEO and co-founder of Rio Fish Limited, is on a mission to end the sex-for-fish trade in Kenya, (whereby women traders are sexually exploited by predatory fishermen) - through market linkages so that women …

The Kurt Grinnell Aquaculture Scholarship Foundation (KGASF) today announced the appointment of two global aquaculture leaders to its board of directors.

FAI Farms (FAI) is launching free online training on tilapia welfare in five languages: Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and English.

A group of Icelandic salmon farming companies has signed an agreement to establish an initiative that allows secondary school pupils to learn about aquaculture.

A grant of nearly $800,000 from the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) program, will allow researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) to assess the extent of aquaculture operations in Bangladesh, India, Myanma…

This year has been particularly notable for the emergence of the seaweed sector, according to Harrison Karisa, senior aquaculture specialist at the World Bank, which has over $9 billion relating to the ocean portfolio.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and Auburn University’s fisheries lab are partnering on a $5 million project that will focus on fish diseases and aquatic pathogen surveillance.

The University of Stirling has secured £780,000 in funding for fish welfare projects in Vietnam and Thailand.

Aine O'Donnell and Aine-Lisa Shannon are bringing aquaculture to Ireland's primary schools as part of the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) Aquaculture Remote Classroom (ARC), a mobile classroom that showcases aquaculture's role…

Basel Ahmed is the founder and CEO of Octopus, which claims to be the, “first scientific aquaculture initiative in Egypt and the Arab region that is managed by youth and covers production, disease control and environment…

The KGASF has unveiled the winners of its inaugural Tribal and First Nations Scholarship Awards.

Heather Sadusky has been on a mission to give consumers access to sustainable seafood and has worked across the US, Hong Kong and the Caribbean to achieve her goals. She's now leading the Sustainable Fisheries Partnershi…

Researchers are developing new antifouling coatings that prevent algae from colonising ship hulls – and are hoping to create ones that allow coral larvae to thrive.

On 1 November, Insect Engineers will be launching its Insect School website in a bid to revolutionise the insect farming industry.

Six blue tech startups that focus on improving ocean health, increasing coastal resilience and developing new technology for the aquaculture sector have been tapped to join the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf B…

After establishing its zebrafish facility in 2003, the university has used the South Asian fish as a model organism to study everything from bacterial infections to muscular dystrophy – and researchers hope to expand the…

The Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative has been awarded $425,000 from the US Sea Grant programme to advance land-based aquaculture as the region moves to keep pace with seafood demand.

A newly launched consortium of Blue Planet, Lake Harvest Group, Larive International, Lattice Aquaculture and Skretting/Tunga Nutrition has launched a €2 million project provide practical and applicable expertise to empo…