Intelligence
Study aims to increase awareness and knowledge about shrimp grow-out to enhance product quality, optimize efficiency and address animal welfare.
Intelligence
Using a recirculating aquaculture system, researchers successfully farmed the Queensland giant grouper in Europe for the first time.
Innovation & Investment
Oceanloop's $38 million loan will be used to build a land-based shrimp farm in Spain and expand operations in Germany.
Fisheries
New measures enhance responsible fisheries management of tuna and swordfish, emphasizing science, conservation and small-scale fisheries.
Responsibility
The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) raises concerns about supply chain traceability and reporting accuracy.
Fisheries
A new report shows the Western Mediterranean fisheries management plan has led to fish stock recovery, with a strong near-term outlook.
Fisheries
The future of European eel fisheries may depend on a coordinated plan to conserve the species, including seasonal closures and a ban on recreational fishing.
Innovation & Investment
Overall EU aquaculture production has "flatlined" and the sector's environmental impact can’t be reliably measured, a new report finds.
Fisheries
The EU reached an agreement with northeast Atlantic coastal states, UK and Norway on the shared fisheries management of key stocks in 2024.
Responsibility
New measures aim to improve the fisheries and aquaculture sector, but some question their value in achieving COP15 biodiversity goals.
Fisheries
The EU reached an agreement with northeast Atlantic coastal states, UK and Norway on the shared fisheries management of key stocks in 2023.
Health & Welfare
Horizon Europe has launched a new aquaculture research project to improve farmed fish health and welfare in Europe.
Innovation & Investment
The impact that recirculating aquaculture systems, or RAS, will have on European production remains to be seen, but the general vibe is positive.
Intelligence
Pathogenic noroviruses have been identified in shellfish from various countries in Europe. The major cause of outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in humans, norovirus infection is transmitted three main ways, led by consumption of shellfish.
Intelligence
Epidemiological studies have estimated that noroviruses are responsible for 60 percent to 80 percent of all foodborne outbreaks of gastroenteritis worldwide. Consumption of shellfish is one of three main transmission routes of norovirus infection.
Health & Welfare
After rapid expansion of glass eel culture in the mid-1990s was followed by overproduction, pricing problems, glass eel shortages and NGO pressures, European Union countries adopted national management plans for the eels. Importation of consumption eels was stopped, and exportation was phased out.