Sustainable Aquaculture @ Stirling

Richard Newton, Wesley Malcorps, Bjorn Kok and David Little recently worked with colleagues from the Universities of Cambridge, Lancaster and Aberdeen to look at how micronutrients in feed fish could be most efficiently utilised for human nutrition.

We have a PhD studentship available: “Investigating comprehensive sustainability indicators for global aquaculture”

Dave Little and Richard Newton participated in the kick-off meetings for the DANIDA funded ‘Climate resilient aquatic food systems for healthy lives of young women and girls in Bangladesh project’ aka the AQUAFOOD project.

The second annual meeting of the Horizon Europe project “SmartAqua4FuturE” (SAFE) was held in Logroño in La Rioja region of Spain in November 2023.

Dave Little, Richard Newton and Wesley Malcorps recently appeared on “The Business of Aquaculture” podcast

Congratulations to Steph Horn and Arsénio Hilinganye on successfully passing their PhD vivas.

Congratulations to Professor Dave Little, who was recently included in the Clarivate list of most highly cited researchers globally

Wesley Malcorps was an invited speaker at the IFFO Annual Conference in South Africa, presenting on seafood sustainability and the importance of traceability.

Professor Dave Little was recently featured on the University of Stirling news pages for his contribution to a new paper entitled “Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation”

John Bostock and Wesley Malcorps visited Poland under the EU SAFE project to start working with Polish Partners, The West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) to study carp production systems and value chains

Professor Dave Little was invited to give evidence to the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission on the perceived impact on UK food standards of the UK joining the CPTPP.

Congratulations to Wesley Malcorps and Alexander Kaminski for successfully completing their PhD studies

Simão Zacarias and Richard Newton report on their participation in the Shrimp Summit in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam

Professor Dave Little reports on his participation at the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit

Recent work in Bangladesh finds adolescent girls are at risk of nutritional deficiencies even in areas with aquaculture and other seafood production.

Stuart Bunting shares some key findings from a recent open-access paper entitled ‘Evaluating the potential of innovations across aquaculture product value chains for poverty alleviation in Bangladesh and India’

A workshop- ‘Building a sustainable seafood sector through collaboration’ attracted a diverse range of participants at the University of Stirling on Friday January 19th

As part of our Open Philanthropy funded project on improving farmed fish welfare in Asia we are inviting proposals for short research projects from Thailand and Vietnam.

We are shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely passing of Professor Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain (Ranu) of Bangladesh Agricultural University.

The Institute of Aquaculture hosted an AwayDay to enable PhD students from six universities to network and share their perspectives around the theme “Aquatic Foods in Sustainable Food Systems.”

A short summary report from our #SeafoodMattersUK event is now available to support stakeholder dialogue and prompt further research and collaborative actions.

Richard Newton visits Uganda to help establish black soldier fly larvae production at the RAD farm which will be piloted as a direct feed supplement for pond-farmed fish.

The University of Stirling has been awarded £780,000 from Open Philanthropy to improve the welfare of farmed fish in Thailand and Vietnam

ThinkAqua recently coordinated a review of global aquaculture on behalf of the Sustainable Aquaculture Working Group of the Blue Food Partnership, World Economic Forum.

With sponsorship from Salmon Scotland, Institute of Aquaculture PhD students recently invited high school students to visit the University of Stirling campus and interact with them about their research

Danielle Maitland has created an extensive database of information about aquaponic systems, which she is sharing with the aquaponics community for further development.

Wesley Malcorps, shares a video of his work on how a circular economy can be enabled for the utilisation of fish processing waste using blockchain technologies.

A video has been produced to share some of the ideas and discussions from the recent #SeafoodMattersUK event at the University of Stirling.

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.