Publication - A Risk Benefit Analysis of Mariculture as a means to Reduce the Impacts of Terrestrial Production of Food and Energy

Publication - A Risk Benefit Analysis of Mariculture as a means to Reduce the Impacts of Terrestrial Production of Food and Energy

The Sustainable Aquaculture Research Group worked with ABPMer to produce this report for the Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum and WWF-UK. The study was commissioned to investigate whether the pressure on land and freshwater for future food and energy resources, and impacts on the climate, related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, may be reduced through expansion of global mariculture.

Aquaculture Enterprise Malawi

Aquaculture Enterprise  Malawi

Aquaculture Enterprise Malawi AEM :   18th  April 2016 Professor   David Little visited the Sustainable Aquaculture Group's 3 year Scottish Govt funded project which is supporting development of profitable  small scale   commercial pond   culture in southern Malawi  with   carefully selected entrepreneurial individuals - here in the photo with Gift Phiri AEM fish farmer from Mulanje. For further details and regular updates of the project see the AEM Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/Aquaculture-Enterprise-Malawi-572805602862378/ or contact Will Leschen- wl2 @stir.ac.uk

New EU project announced: "Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability" (TAPAS)

Researchers from the Sustainable Aquaculture Research Group at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture will lead a team of European experts in this four-year study worth almost €7 million, to establish new strategies and models for sustainable growth in the aquaculture industry.