Last April AQUA srl inaugurated its new headquarters in the port of Lavagna (Genoa, Italy) with new offices, staff rooms for the personnel and subs, cleaning and packaging laboratories for the transport and delivery to resellers, and a large meeting room to host clients, institutions, media as well aso school groups to explain what is…
Brazil’s aquaculture sector has continued to grow rapidly at a rate of 8-10 per cent each year and with more than 8 million km of coast line, there is a big opportunity for the future growth of aquaculture in the country. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture has an important role to play in the future of the…
A new study reported by the Science for Environment Policy news service of the European Commission, indicates that a salmon farming system incorporating seaweed and sea urchins could reduce nitrogen releases to the environment by 45%. The study by Lamprianidou, F., et al. was published in the Journal of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science and is based…
The Sargassum Regional Conference 2016 took place on 21st March in Moskito Island, property of entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson in British Virgin Islands. The conference focussed on the Sargassum seaweed challenges that the Caribbean is presently facing and on the opportunities to turn these seaweed into an economically viable resource. Sargassum is a brown macro algae from…
Aquaculture Europe 2016, the annual conference organized by the European Aquaculture Society will be held this year from 21 to 23 September in Edinburgh, Scotland UK. A special session will be dedicated to IDREEM and will feature the project’s final results and conclusions. This session will provide a detailed insight into all the main IMTA-related…
A new research paper about the development of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture in Europe was published last April by the Aquaculture Environment Interaction Journal. The paper was written by IDREEM coordinator Dr. Adam Hughes and Prof. Kenneth Black, (Scottish Association for Marine Science) and analyzes the trade-offs in implementing IMTA systems in Europe, in contrast with…