The purpose of this paper is to assist the offshore aquaculture by providing an inventory (non-exhaustive) of good practice as a means to prevent, reduce, monitor, quantify, remove and recycle marine litter in the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the...

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is an international non-profit organization that maintains a policy on farmed seafood thus maintaining sustainable aquaculture. It offers a strict certification and marking scheme for safe and responsible...

Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector in our food system and an important source of sustainable food in Europe. With demand for food growing and hundreds of hectares of formerly agricultural land being used for other purposes, enhancing both the...

This manual provides comprehensive information and practical guidelines to assist farmers, producers and all stakeholders along the feed value chain to comply with the requirements of the Codex Alimentarius Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding...

Located on the banks of the Danube, in the south of Olt County, the city of Corabia has more than 170 small scale fishermen. While the city’s fisheries sector has traditionally been reasonably profitable, most of fishermen were unable to sell their catch...

The launch of a Centre for advice and consultancy for aquaculturists was based on the need to create a formal mechanism that would allow the transfer of technology to fish farmers and to assist them in ensuring that their projects conformed to all...

The Blue Career Centre Romania was established within the MENTOR project – a partnership comprised of 7 partners from 4 countries, that aimed to support businesses in finding the right staff with proper qualifications and to provide prospects for...

The name of the best practice is Bio Packaging but behind these two simple words there is a great work in research & development and in technological innovation. Mitilicoltori spezzini is the cooperative of Ligurian mussel farmers. Their good...

This Good Practice Guide was produced under the EXTRA-SMEs project which aimed at improving and adapting aquaculture business development strategies. The Guide presents 15 good practices and cases on business strategies and interventions, which have...

Approximately 180 million salmonids (salmon and trout) eggs are produced each year in the UK making fish farming the largest livestock sector after broiler production (FAWC 2014). Fish farming is predicted to grow exponentially for the next 10 years...