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Sea food is a healthy food choice. An average person living in the EU consumes 24 kg (live weight) of fish or seafood per year and this is 3.3 kg more than in the rest of the world (EU Facts and Figures, 2022). Sea food consumption has increased for centuries, and the world food fish consumption in 2030 is projected to be 18% higher than in 2018 (FAO, 2020). Aquaculture …

Aquaculture is becoming an increasingly attractive source of food production. Growing at a 2.2% rate from 1990 to 2020 to reach an outstanding sum of 90 million tonnes per year, it has gained popularity for its sustainability and high-quality seafood production. An EU project, AquaIMPACT, is supporting this growth by looking at the fish gut microbiota, the community of living microorganisms that harmoniously inhabit the fish gut. The keys behind …

AquaIMPACT had a total of 5 presentations in the International Symposium on Genetics in Aquaculture (ISGA) in Chile, Puerto Varas 27th November – 2nd December 2022. ISGA provides a forum for the industry and academy to share the latest research on breeding and genomics of sustainable aquaculture. It is one of the most important international events for this topic. One of the presentations was on the improvement of production efficiency …

Can we program Atlantic salmon to improve the utilisation of vegetable ingredients in feed? Nutritional programming is a tool which has been studied in different aquaculture species with an aim to improve the utilisation of plant-based feed ingredients. Researchers at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture are trying to implement this tool in Atlantic salmon.   Why are we looking to improve the use of vegetable ingredients? In recent …

The Institute of Aquaculture (IoA) at the University of Stirling (UoS), Scotland, UK, is a Global Centre of Excellence for Aquaculture and related Aquatic Resource Science, and one of the leading institutes worldwide solely focused on research and teaching underpinning aquaculture. The IoA combines cross-disciplinary, world-class research to meet the wide range of challenges faced as aquaculture grows to meet global demands. They have 75 staff members in four main research …

ULPGC (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish university located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital city of Gran Canaria island. ULPGC has the oldest Marine Science Faculty and Aquaculture training in Spain. The Aquaculture Research Group (GIA), the research group involved in AquaIMPACT has over 35 years of experience in aquaculture research and collaboration with Mediterranean fish farming and feed manufacturing industry, particularly in the areas of …

An AquaIMPACT study on the gut microbiota of gilthead sea bream was nominated for the Student Spotlight Award in the Aquaculture Europe 2022 conference. The annual Aquaculture Europe international conference celebrated its 22nd edition in Rimini, Italy (September 27-30th) and, as usual, the organization selected the three most interesting and high-quality abstracts presented by students. This year, Fernando Naya-Català, a PhD student of the Nutrigenomics and Fish Endocrinology group of …