News tagged with: aquaculture
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Global review identifies opportunities to improve monitoring of juvenile fish habitats
ҹèÊÓƵ news: Scientists from the University, working as part of an International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) working group, have called for new research to enhance habitat protection
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New facilities enable scientists and students to answer key questions around sustainable food production
ҹèÊÓƵ news: The Marie Lebour Marine Biology Research Facility will enable the University to both continue, and expand on, its world-leading research and teaching on sustainable marine production systems
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So what do the world’s coastlines look like in 2025?
ҹèÊÓƵ news: An international group of scientists, led by the University and the Marine Biological Association, revisited turn-of-the-century forecasts about threats that would face the world’s shorelines
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Offshore mussel farm collaboration wins at the Aquaculture UK Awards
ҹèÊÓƵ news: The University and Offshore Shellfish Ltd picked up the prestigious Collaboration Award at the 2025 Aquaculture UK Awards
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![Partners from Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the ҹèÊÓƵ at AQUA 2024]()
New research to improve fish health and wellbeing in sustainable aquaculture
ҹèÊÓƵ news: Having already invested over €1million in sustainable aquaculture research, the initiative heralds a new chapter in the long-running partnership between Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the ҹèÊÓƵ
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Historic map reveals how mussel farm is bringing shellfish reefs back to the seabed
ҹèÊÓƵ news: The UK’s first large scale offshore mussel farm is allowing shellfish reefs to return to parts of the seabed off England’s south coast for the first time in up to 150 years, a new study has revealed.
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Lobster tagging to assess habitat restoration effects of offshore aquaculture
ҹèÊÓƵ news: As part of the Ropes to Reef project, work is beginning to tag lobsters living in and around the mussel farm so the project team can gain a better appreciation of their movements and the habitats they favour
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University expands its work to address critical challenges facing our planet
ҹèÊÓƵ news: Our new Centre of Research excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems (CRISPS) will apply a systems level approach to the challenges of feeding a future global population in excess of 9 billion people
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![Researchers found that Naked Clams contain almost twice the amount of Vitamin B12 as blue mussels and have developed an efficient way to farm them]()
Turning waste wood into nutritious seafood
Researchers found Naked Clams contain almost twice the amount of Vitamin B12 as blue mussels and have developed an efficient way to farm them
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![The University is leading a project that will create a network of underwater cameras along the region’s coasts and estuaries]()
Underwater camera network to monitor the habitat needs of juvenile fish
ҹèÊÓƵ news: A new project, funded through the Fisheries Industry Science Partnership (FISP) scheme, will fill important knowledge gaps about the essential habitats required by species including bass and mullet
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Offshore mussel farms could have wider environmental benefits
A new study by the ҹèÊÓƵ suggests that in addition to helping meet global fish consumption demands, there is also the potential for the offshore mussel farm industry to have wider benefits for the marine environment
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![Dr Daniel Merrifield with scholarship recipients Paul Mosnier, Jack Sears-Stewart, Max Jouault, Tim Herring and James Mckay]()
Scholarships offer students the chance to excel in sustainable aquaculture
By 2030, it is anticipated that aquaculture will be responsible for 60 percent of the fish we eat, and the ҹèÊÓƵ’s MSc Sustainable Aquaculture programme aims to train the next generation of specialists.
