Fish fingers – like you’ve never seen before
A pilot community project to create a new locally sourced fish finger for school lunches is making waves across Plymouth and beyond. Known as the Plymouth Fish Finger, the project…
Fishermen’s data close to satellite accuracy
Artisanal fishermen can be almost as accurate as satellite data when it comes to their awareness of features that can be found in the marine environment, a new study published…
Representatives from the University of Plymouth and Lallemand Animal Nutrition at the AQUA 2024 conference. Image: University of Plymouth
New collaborative research into fish health and wellbeing in sustainable aquaculture
Lallemand Animal Nutrition and the University of Plymouth have marked 15 years of collaboration by unveiling a major new initiative that aims to enhance fish resilience and welfare. The partnership…
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…
Study aims to offer new insights into pollack stocks
The announcement of new management measures on pollack fishing highlights the urgent need for more data, according to scientists. The announcement by Defra of new measures to restrict pollack fishing…
Tagging programme to identify key English Channel habitats
Around 1000 fish have been tagged in the English Channel as part of an ambitious project to preserve and enhance the habitats of some of the region’s key fish species.…
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…
Invasive lionfish should be part of Mediterranean fisheries
Scientists have published a series of recommendations to enable communities and managers to minimise the impact of lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea. This invasive species was first noticed off the…
