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Byproducts from aquaculture can increase the industry’s sustainability and contribute to other sectors like diet supplements, cosmetics and animal feeds, a new study concludes. 

Longtime university researcher Prof. Simon MacKenzie will helm the school’s Institute of Aquaculture, succeeding Selina Stead, beginning Jan. 1. 

Farmed shrimp eyestalk ablation research is one of three finalists for the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award. 

Media coverage fuels negative perceptions of farmed shrimp among Europeans. A paper – similar to one on pangasius consumption four years ago – finds the sector is doing too little to rectify ill-founded notions. 

Professor Selina Stead, the new head of the Institute of Aquaculture (IoA) at the University of Stirling in Scotland, assumes her post on March 1 and will be in charge of 180 staff and students, and in regular contact with a global network of partners and businesses. 

A research project aimed at improving shrimp hatcheries’ welfare practices shows there is a viable alternative to a common spawn-inducing technique. 

Despite the positive outputs of the global salmon farming business it remains a target for sharp criticism. In Scotland, the industry’s battle against misleading and inaccurate information reaches a new level. 

Harry Hamlin-Wright is a fish vet. It’s a career choice that gets strange looks but offers him varied and interesting work. See the world of aquatic animal health and welfare through a fresh set of eyes in a new Advocate series on aquaculture jobs. 

La remoción del tallo o pedúnculo ocular de camarones hembras reproductoras ha ayudado en el crecimiento explosivo de la acuacultura a escala comercial. Un compromiso de un productor de camarones de América Central ha demostrado que la producción de camarones sin ablación puede aliviar las preocupaciones de bienestar animal sin la temida caída en la producción.