Month: December 2020

One of the aims of AquaIMPACT is to increase the awareness of consumers, regulators and policy makers on sustainable aquaculture, and to communicate the societal impacts of the technologies developed in AquaIMPACT. This is needed so that consumers will have information for making decisions on their preferred food choices. Additionally, there may be a need to clarify potential misconceptions. On the other hand, for the scientific community, open-access publishing and …

SYSAAF is the French association of poultry, aquaculture and insect breeding companies. It groups together companies developing programs of genetic improvement and management applied to poultry, fish and oyster species and another species like insects. With the staff of 16 geneticists and biologist and 4 PhD, SYSAAF acts as a technical centre specialised in genetic improvement and advices over 42 companies developing breeding programs of more than 23 species. SYSAAF …

CSIC (Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spanish National Research Council) is the largest public research institution in Spain and the third largest in Europe. CSIC has 10.940 employees and 123 Institutes. Its overall mission is to develop and promote research that will help to bring about scientific and technological progress. CSIC covers all fields of knowledge from basic to applied research, produces 20% of the national scientific output …

Open sharing of both scientific articles and their source data sets is one way to increase the impact of the scientific research and development work. To facilitate open access publishing, the European Commission has launched a cost-free publishing platform called Open Research Europe. Based on the Open Research Europe website, it ‘will provide all Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries and their researchers with an easy, high quality peer-reviewed venue …

Scientists from INRAE (Geneviève Corraze, Sandrine Skiba, Frédéric Terrier & Marc Vandeputte) have been part of the group developing brand new feed for rainbow trout. The aim is to be able to bring a locally produced, more sustainable option to the market. What is the current state of feed ingredients for rainbow trout? Historically, fish meal and fish oil have been major ingredients in rainbow trout feeds. Limited availability of …

A qualitative study through consumers’ focus groups was performed in Finland, France and Spain to study perception of consumers about farmed fish. Consumption habits, information they receive on fish farming, and their needs for receiving explicit information about aquaculture were assessed. The study also tested the reactions of consumers after receiving a set of basic information, in eight slides, about world aquaculture and salmon farming. The study will be continued …