Latest report from the Scientific Advice Mechanism team suggests a range of options to foster more offshore entrepreneurs. Tiny sea creatures lower on the food web and underwater plants are a huge untapped source of food and biomass for a growing population, and Europe must expand its hunt for them, […]
Archivos diarios: 12/05/2017
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The INvertebrateIT Project for the aquaculture sector, in which the Marine Institute is one of five partners, has been officially launched. The project is focused on developing innovative approaches for aquaculture, particularly on the use of organic waste for the production of insects as alternative ingredients in fish feed. INvertebrateIT […]
Founder Monica Jain sees an unsustainable industry that’s ripe for technological disruption. When 40 start-ups from all over the world gathered at Stanford University in November, it was not a typical Silicon Valley pitch day. The entrepreneurs competing in the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum saw themselves more like the next […]
Auburn University researchers gather catfish at a research pond. Professor Cova Arias has developed and patented an experimental vaccine to fight Columnaris disease in catfish. Auburn researchers will use a nearly $321,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to field-test a novel vaccine that would effectively and economically control one of […]
Ron Hardy built a fisheries research program respected around the world. Ron Hardy has built a world-class fish research facility at the University of Idaho and is one of the top scholars in his field worldwide. His work has advanced the scientific knowledge of fish nutrition and genomics and sustainable […]
A new method is being tried to increase seafood production through the use of aquaculture. The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission is awarding grants totaling $450,000 for new and unique aquaculture projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The projects will range in size from $50,000 to $100,000 and will be […]
World‘s fishing production only grows at six percent a year on average. China dominates global aquaculture, producing $131.7 billion of farmed fish in 2015, according to a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The total value of the country’s wild and farmed fish has more than tripled […]