Education & academia

A new, innovative and interactive approach to generating interest in aquaculture is now publicly available, following the publication of a number of stories about the industry on the AquaTED platform.

The true value of small-scale commercial aquaculture as a means of generating rural development and reducing poverty has been revealed in a new academic study.

Vocational training in European aquaculture is chronically under resourced, while those textbooks that are available struggle to keep up with the technical developments in such a rapidly evolving sector.

Sustained investment in jobs and skills within Scotland’s remote rural communities has helped earn Scottish Sea Farms the highest level of Investors in People (IIP) accreditation.

Papers relating to cleanerfish production achieved a clean sweep at this year’s awards for Swansea University’s best undergraduate dissertations on fisheries and aquaculture.

In the past few years the world of online aquaculture academia has been increasingly blighted by non-peer-reviewed papers masquerading as real science. Here’s what you can do to avoid the worrying trend for unverified aq…

The team behind a project that aims to improve the health of farmed sea bass and sea bream in the Mediterranean has launched an discussion forum on Sparicotylosis today.

How one man’s idea to help soldiers earn extra income and acquire valuable skills on retirement has evolved to create a national aquaculture training centre in Ghana

Marks & Spencer has named Scottish Sea Farms’ salmon farming team at Wyre, Orkney as its Outstanding Producer of the year in the Farming for the Future Awards 2018.

A new agreement between the Universities of Stirling and Ningbo, in China, will see aquaculture staff and students share knowledge and collaborate on research and teaching projects.

A special issue of the Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists, covering the highlights of the 18th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, which took place in Belfast, has been publ…

Today at Aquaculture UK, the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) announced a new skills initiative and funding for four PhD projects worth over £500,000.

Anyone who works with seafood is now able to access a free online food hygiene training module.

A conference that focuses on smolt production in RAS and closed-containment systems is scheduled to take place in Norway in October.

A major discovery that could “revolutionise” the understanding of omega-3 production in the ocean has been made by an international team of scientists.

A new project looking into how different types of quality can increase the value of farmed salmon products has been recently launched.

Scotland’s current crop of aquaculture post-grads can become chief executives of major seafood businesses within a remarkably short space of time – as long as they’re prepared to put in the hard work.

Scotland’s fourth Aquaculture Careers Day is set to be the biggest yet, as Athina Papadopoulou, vice-president of the Aquaculture Students’ Association (ASA), explains.

The first ever comprehensive book on the use of cleaner fish in aquaculture, edited by Jim Treasurer, former Research Director at Ardtoe Marine Research Facility, has been published today.

An international project which aims to track scores of wild Atlantic salmon over the next two years was launched today as part of Europe's largest effort to halt the decline of the species.