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23 October 2025
Events
John Bostock
Tasting the World - The Institute of ...

The Institute of Aquaculture community converged on the Holy Trinity Church Hall  on the evening of 17th October for its annual International Food Night

Tasting the World - The Institute of Aquaculture’s International Food Night 2025
30 September 2025
John Bostock
The "SAFE" Project meets in Porto and Valencia

Richard Newton and John Bostock recently attended the annual consortium meeting for the SmartAqua4FuturE project which was hosted by CIIMAR in Porto, Portugal.

The "SAFE" Project meets in Porto and Valencia
7 August 2025
Projects
John Bostock
Funding announced for building the Asian Fish ...

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

Funding announced for building the Asian Fish Welfare Network
10 July 2025
Events
John Bostock
Participation in the 2025 Shrimp Summit

Simão Zacarias reports on our recent contributions to the TCRS Shrimp Summit 2025

Participation in the 2025 Shrimp Summit
1 July 2025
Projects
John Bostock
Freshwater fish consumption in Europe survey ...

A consumer survey has been developed and launched as part of the SAFE project to gain further insight into people’s consumption patterns and attitudes towards aquaculture produced fish

Freshwater fish consumption in Europe survey launched
John Bostock
24 August 2022
People

Spotlight - Dimitar Taskov

John Bostock
24 August 2022
People
Spotlight - Dimitar Taskov

In this first of a series of occasional posts, we turn the spotlight on Dimitar Taskov, his journey into Sustainable Aquaculture and what he is working on now.

Tagged: Spotlight, FAO, students, postgraduate

John Bostock
21 July 2022
Publications

Circular economy: Potential for converting whisky by-product to salmon feed through insects

John Bostock
21 July 2022
Publications
Circular economy: Potential for converting whisky by-product to salmon feed through insects

Jules Wehry reports on the findings of his MSc project on the potential for using insect larvae fed on distillery by-products as a substitute for fishmeal in Atlantic salmon feed.

Tagged: Insects, circular, salmon, Scotland, MSc

John Bostock
3 July 2022
Projects

Researching new tilapia production strategies in Kenya

John Bostock
3 July 2022
Projects
Researching new tilapia production strategies in Kenya

Three researchers from the Institute of Aquaculture are currently working with Victory Farms and Unga Farm Care in Kenya to assess alternate production strategies for tilapia in cages.

Tagged: Tilapia, Kenya, marketing, strategies, students

John Bostock
20 June 2022
Events

Seafood Matters UK

John Bostock
20 June 2022
Events
Seafood Matters UK

Members of The Sustainable Aquaculture Network at Stirling are playing a leading role in the organisation of “Seafood Matters UK” on 23-24th June 2022

Tagged: seafood, conference

John Bostock
13 June 2022
Publications

Mixed-sex Nile tilapia can perform competitively with mono-sex stocks in cage production

John Bostock
13 June 2022
Publications
Mixed-sex Nile tilapia can perform competitively with mono-sex stocks in cage production

Research on strategies for mixed-sex tilapia production has been published in the journal “Aquaculture”, suggesting there are particularly opportunities for larger companies targeting urban markets sensitive to environmental and welfare messaging.

Tagged: Tilapia, economics

Wesley Malcorps
9 March 2022
Publications

Freshwater aquaculture: The silent majority

Wesley Malcorps
9 March 2022
Publications
Freshwater aquaculture: The silent majority

In a new Nature publication we make the case that freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research.

Tagged: Tilapia, Carp, nutrition, policy

John Bostock
26 February 2022
Projects

GAIN Online Courses Collection

John Bostock
26 February 2022
Projects
GAIN Online Courses Collection

As one of the main dissemination outputs for the EU GAIN project, the Stirling team led the development of five free self-paced online course which are now available on the platform OpenLearn Create.

Tagged: sustainable, course, circular, training, GAIN

John Bostock
8 February 2022
Projects

News from the field - Reed Ozretich in Cote D'Ivoire

John Bostock
8 February 2022
Projects
News from the field - Reed Ozretich in Cote D'Ivoire

Reed Ozretich, researcher with the Institute of Aquaculture, sends the following update on his survey work in Cote D’Ivoire

Tagged: Africa, research, survey

Dave Little
3 February 2022
Resource Efficiency

Can raising fish within a broader food system reduce overall environmental impacts?

Dave Little
3 February 2022
Resource Efficiency
Can raising fish within a broader food system reduce overall environmental impacts?

An update from our research work in Bangladesh involving Stephanie Horn (PhD student) and Dr Abdullah Al Mamun’s team from the Noahkhali Science and Technology University.

Tagged: Bangladesh, research, Tilapia

John Bostock
19 January 2022
Events

Can you eat the whole fish?

John Bostock
19 January 2022
Events
Can you eat the whole fish?

This was the title of the first Big Fish seminar of 2022 which looked at different fish consumption patterns and approaches to reducing waste from fish consumption around the world.

Tagged: Webinar, Big Fish, nutrition, sustainable

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