News tagged with: aquaculture
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New facilities enable scientists and students to answer key questions around sustainable food production
University of Plymouth news: The Marie Lebour Marine Biology Research Facility will enable the University to both continue, and expand on, its world-leading research and teaching on sustainable marine production systems
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So what do the world’s coastlines look like in 2025?
University of Plymouth news: An international group of scientists, led by the University and the Marine Biological Association, revisited turn-of-the-century forecasts about threats that would face the world’s shorelines
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Offshore mussel farm collaboration wins at the Aquaculture UK Awards
University of Plymouth news: The University and Offshore Shellfish Ltd picked up the prestigious Collaboration Award at the 2025 Aquaculture UK Awards
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New research to improve fish health and wellbeing in sustainable aquaculture
University of Plymouth news: Having already invested over €1million in sustainable aquaculture research, the initiative heralds a new chapter in the long-running partnership between Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the University of Plymouth
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Historic map reveals how mussel farm is bringing shellfish reefs back to the seabed
University of Plymouth news: The UK’s first large scale offshore mussel farm is allowing shellfish reefs to return to parts of the seabed off England’s south coast for the first time in up to 150 years, a new study has revealed.
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Lobster tagging to assess habitat restoration effects of offshore aquaculture
University of Plymouth news: As part of the Ropes to Reef project, work is beginning to tag lobsters living in and around the mussel farm so the project team can gain a better appreciation of their movements and the habitats they favour
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University expands its work to address critical challenges facing our planet
University of Plymouth news: Our new Centre of Research excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems (CRISPS) will apply a systems level approach to the challenges of feeding a future global population in excess of 9 billion people
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![Researchers found that Naked Clams contain almost twice the amount of Vitamin B12 as blue mussels and have developed an efficient way to farm them]()
Turning waste wood into nutritious seafood
Researchers found Naked Clams contain almost twice the amount of Vitamin B12 as blue mussels and have developed an efficient way to farm them
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![The University is leading a project that will create a network of underwater cameras along the region’s coasts and estuaries]()
Underwater camera network to monitor the habitat needs of juvenile fish
University of Plymouth news: A new project, funded through the Fisheries Industry Science Partnership (FISP) scheme, will fill important knowledge gaps about the essential habitats required by species including bass and mullet
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Offshore mussel farms could have wider environmental benefits
A new study by the University of Plymouth suggests that in addition to helping meet global fish consumption demands, there is also the potential for the offshore mussel farm industry to have wider benefits for the marine environment
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![Dr Daniel Merrifield with scholarship recipients Paul Mosnier, Jack Sears-Stewart, Max Jouault, Tim Herring and James Mckay]()
Scholarships offer students the chance to excel in sustainable aquaculture
By 2030, it is anticipated that aquaculture will be responsible for 60 percent of the fish we eat, and the University of Plymouth’s MSc Sustainable Aquaculture programme aims to train the next generation of specialists.
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Research launched into impact of sea lice upon salmon fisheries
Plymouth University news: A new international research project has been launched to investigate the issue of sea lice infestation that is costing the Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry millions of pounds in lost stock.
