December 2018: William Leschen and Martin Haines carried out an initial scoping study visit to Zambia as part of a Norwegian/WorldFish Center WFC funded project to develop new curricula for two aquaculture vocational colleges NRDC and Kasaka in Zambia.
The Rise of Aquaculture By-products
Following on from work with The Marine Ingredients Organisation (IFFO) investigating potential to increase global fishmeal and fish oil supplies from by-products, Julien Stevens, built on the work of Dr. Richard Newton, first in an MSc project and then with a follow up project to investigate how by-products from Scottish farmed salmon are utilised, and how value and efficiency could be added.
BOLTI EGYPT
This is a Newton Institutional Link Project coordinated by researchers from Stirling University and Kafrelsheikh University in collaboration with Europharma UK, WorldFish Centre Egypt and Egyptian Union of Fishermen Cooperatives on behavioural prophylaxis for improved culture system design and management in the Egyptian tilapia industry.
BlueEdu Project kicks off to study Vocational Education and Training for the European cage-based aquaculture industry
John Bostock attended the first meeting of the EU Erasmus+ BlueEdu project in Brussels. This aims to identify skills gaps within the European aquaculture workforce, evaluate education and training demand and supply, and establish industry and education and training providers’ receptiveness to innovative delivery methods.
PrimeFish meets in Stirling
AQUAEXCEL Consortium Meet in Crete
AQUAEXCEL2020 is an EU Horizon 2020 project which supports transnational access and research coordination between the leading European aquaculture research infrastructures including the Institute of Aquaculture in Stirling. The second annual meeting was held in Crete from 11th to 14th October 2016 to review progress over the first year and work on plans and arrangements for future activities.





