People & planet

The Asian region is a major supplier of fish products to the EU market. Over the period 2005-2010 in particular, the aquaculture sector in some Asian countries became an important producer as well as exporter of whitefish and shrimps.This article provides a su…

As part of the Chichester Harbour Oyster Partnership Initiative, this article by Lawrence Eagling and Antony Jensen, University of Southampton, analyses the reproductive success of oysters in Chichester Harbour, UK.

In the present report, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur, identifies the challenges facing global fisheries and examines how the individuals most vulnerable to negative impacts (the residents of developing coastal and island countries, especially low …

This factsheet by the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center (SRAC) gives information on mycobacterial infections of fish.

Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that afflicts blue crabs and is of growing concern to aquaculture ope…

Teagasc researchers are looking to seaweed for proteins with health benefits for use as functional foods. Historically, edible seaweeds were consumed by coastal communities across the world and today seaweed is a habitual diet in many countries, particularly i…

Meiotic maps are a key tool for comparative genomics and association mapping studies. Meredith V. Everett, James E Seeb, University of Washington, and Michael R Miller, University of Oregon, look at the development of meiotic maps of sockeye salmon which are d…

This report by authors from the University of Sterling and Hendrix-Genetics looks at the hepatic transcriptome analysis of inter-family variability in flesh n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid content in Atlantic salmon.