Climate change

Agtech startup Ÿnsect, a leading insect protein and fertiliser producer, has joined the invitation-only World Economic Forum's Global Innovators Community.

How and why seaweed aquaculture should be promoted in Europe is the subject of a new recommendation from the EU’s Aquaculture Advisory Council.

If the Norwegian salmon farming sector used European, instead of Brazilian, soya in its aquafeeds it could reduce its CO2 emissions by 41 percent, according to new research.

Candidates for future aquafeed ingredients – including algae, krill, copepods, insects, yeasts, bacteria and animal and vegetable by-products – are being assessed as part of a new project that aims to improve the climate…

The offspring of salmon that have been bred to be more resistant to sea lice may not be so resistant in warmer waters, according to new research by Nofima.

In the first instalment of a new series on restorative aquaculture The Fish Site speaks to Sarah Holmyard, head of sales and marketing at Offshore Shellfish, which is developing a large-scale rope-grown mussel f…

During an era when more and more freshwater bodies are being affected by saltwater intrusion, should aquaculture operators consider diversifying into species that have a greater tolerance for saline conditions?

Hosting the most important climate change summit since the Paris Agreement should act as a catalyst for Scotland’s emerging seaweed aquaculture sector.

Achieving net zero emissions by 2045 is among the pledges made in a major new blueprint setting out a long-term vision for Scotland’s successful farmed salmon sector.

Plans to invest $60 million to create the world’s largest kelp farm 3-10 kilometres off the coast of Namibia have been announced today.

Seaweed producers and ocean farmers must diversify their operations to make them more economically and ecologically resilient.

A biotech company that aims to turn carbon dioxide into feeds for sectors including aquaculture, has secured sufficient funding to establish a new production facility.

Oysters from Saint-Simon Bay in northern New Brunswick have been shown to be impressive tolerance to ocean acidification, according to a new study in the ICES Journal of Marine Science.

A coalition of 110 aquatic scientific societies, representing over 80,000 scientists, has signed the American Fisheries Society’s “Statement of World Aquatic Scientific Societies on the Need to Take Urgent Action Against…

GPS Group has been an integral force in reducing the Ecuadorian shrimp farming sector’s reliance on diesel-fired generators, and are on the cusp of launching the world’s first carbon zero certification for farm-raised sh…

The global aquaculture sector contributed 0.49 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2017, which is similar in magnitude to the emissions from sheep production.

The Ocean Conservation Trust has completed construction of a seagrass cultivation laboratory as part of a new £2.5 million habitat restoration project led by Natural England.

Recent work on the impact of climate change on Norway's salmon sector, led by researchers at Nofima, may help both the Norwegian sector, and the wider aquaculture industry, prepare for the numerous climate change-related…

The race to culture meaningful quantities of Asparagopsis seaweed has intensified, after new research shows that adding tiny quantities to cattle feeds can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A marine scientist at the UK’s Marine Biological Association (MBA) has been awarded a prestigious grant to fund cutting-edge research that addresses climate change impacts on threatened ocean predators.