Seafood company fined for biosecurity breaches
A New Zealand seafood company has been fined $39,000 for biosecurity breaches involving illegally moving thousands of oysters and mussels and putting the Bluff oyster fishery at risk. Fresh is…
Seawool startup seizes opportunity to get closer to Scotland’s natural resources and bioeconomy
A startup creating a biodegradable ‘wool’ material from by-products of the Scottish shellfish sector has relocated its headquarters to Glasgow in a move that is expected to underpin future growth…
Lyme Bay – Assessing offshore aquaculture’s effects on habitat restoration
Scientists, mussel farmers and fishers on the Devon and Dorset coast are this month beginning tagging work as part of a project using cost-effective and non-destructive remote sampling techniques to…
Mussel farms could have wider environmental benefits
A new University of Plymouth study suggests that in addition to helping meet global fish consumption demands, there is also the potential for the aquaculture to have wider benefits for…
Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam is co-ordinating a multi-party hybrid and electric propulsion research project. Image: Damen
The future of mussel farming – Damen leads on zero emissions research
Damen Maaskant Shipyards Stellendam is heading a research project to investigate the application of hybrid and fully electric propulsion in the Dutch mussel farming sector. The project, which is called…
