The Institute of Aquaculture community converged on the Holy Trinity Church Hall on the evening of 17th October for its annual International Food Night
Richard Newton and John Bostock recently attended the annual consortium meeting for the SmartAqua4FuturE project which was hosted by CIIMAR in Porto, Portugal.
New funding from Open Philanthropy will enable the Institute of Aquaculture to build on the successes of the “Improving Farmed Fish Welfare in Asia” Project and develop an Asian Fish Welfare Network
Simão Zacarias reports on our recent contributions to the TCRS Shrimp Summit 2025
Message from Malcolm: "I will continue to lead the Aquaculture Branch (FIAA) of the FAO, through the second year of the planning biennium. We continue to support countries and partners in their endeavours to maximise the potential of aquaculture to meet their economic, social and environmental goals and to develop and share information on aquaculture technologies and development via a range of publications."
Professor Dave Little & Will Leschen working together with Drs Sonia Planellas and Simon Mackenzie from the Inst's Fish Health and Biotechnology groups in Egypt for fish health related workshops & setting up real-time PCR field diagnosis under a 2 year British Council Newton funded Institutional Links project with Kafr El Sheik University, the World Fish Center and the Egyptian Union of Fishermen and Fish Farmers.
John Bostock & Will Leschen from the Sustainable Aquaculture Group Institute of Aquaculture on 16th November 2016 attended the Inception meeting in London of a new Global Innovation Fund NESTA project which is setting up a new innovative investment "prize" delivery model for developing aquaculture for lower income individuals in Bangladesh and India.
Dr Mahmoud El Tholth of Kafr El Sheik University last week visited the Sustainable Aquaculture Group at the Institute as part of the DFID Newton funded BOLTI project which is looking at Behavioural Prophylaxis as a potentialfish health management strategy for the Egyptian commercial tilapia farming sector.
