The Greek marine aquaculture has a leading role in the Mediterranean mariculture industry, mainly in the export sector and its prominent contribution to the country’s economy. In the present study, the spatial distribution of Greek finfish farming...
The global shift to renewable energy, including large-scale development of offshore wind farms (OWFs), is well underway. This expansion will in certain places lead to increased coexistence and the potential for multiple uses of the space available...
Fisheries and aquaculture make a crucial contribution to global food security, nutrition and livelihoods. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals separate marine and terrestrial food production sectors and ecosystems. To sustainably meet...
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 development of best practices is an important part of the recently launched European Strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture. The workshop stimulated the sharing of knowledge and promoted best practice...
The Member Associations of the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) provide production data for the activities of their national producers on an annual basis. The FEAP Secretariat groups this information into European and National...
Macroalgae (seaweeds) are the subject of increasing interest for their potential as a source of valuable, sustainable biomass in the food, feed, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Compared with microalgae, the pace of knowledge acquisition in...
“The EU fish market” aims at providing an economic description of the whole European fisheries and aquaculture industry, based on the data available as of June 2021. It replies to questions such as what is produced/exported/imported, when and where...
The objective of the study is to update the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA) study on organic aquaculture published in 2017. It covers the whole sector, with a focus on the main species, namely: Atlantic...
In 2021, the European Market Observatory for Fisheries and Aquaculture Products (EUMOFA) has released several monitoring reports with the aim to provide an overview on the fishery and aquaculture sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. This document...
