Human health

Chilean biotech startup Aquit is developing a preventative treatment against infections in fish that boosts natural immunity, improves survival rates and replaces the need for antibiotics, according to CEO Daniela Allerbon

Quality nutrition is of critical importance during the first 1,000 days of life. Research to reveal the current contribution of fish and seafood to early childhood nutrition and the identification key barriers and potential resolutions for improved consumption…

Entrepreneur Jennifer O’Brien – founder and CEO of alt-seafood startup Sea & Believe – has teamed up with pioneering seaweed scientist Dr Maeve Edwards on a pilot project to cultivate the native Irish red seaweed Palmaria palmata (dulse) off the w…

A new report on the most exciting emerging market opportunities in the seaweed sector – which has been compiled for the World Bank by Hatch Innovation Services – has recently been published.

The Zimbabwe government has embarked on an ambitious aquaculture programme that it says will address food insecurity, unemployment and income generation – but critics have labelled it a “vanity project.”

Vincent Doumeizel, author of The Seaweed Revolution, believes that seaweed can help replace many of the worst elements of conventional contemporary agriculture and help to feed the growing global population.

Alternative proteins are often cited as being better – environmentally, ethically and nutritionally – than farmed seafoods, but the reality is much more complex and far less clear-cut than some alt-protein evangelists realise.

Senegal needs to step up its domestic oyster aquaculture sector to better meet domestic demand, according to Amy Gaye, FISH4ACP’s national professional officer in Senegal, who has been working on a new project for FISH4ACP.