The rapid development of blue economy and human use of offshore space triggered the concept of co-location of marine activities and is causing diverse local pressures on the environment. These pressures add to, and interact with, global challenges...

This review paper highlights the significance of seaweed farming in global food and nutritional security, mitigation and adaptation to global climate change, and women empowerment within a single frame. This review paper also outlined the major...

There have been a number of indications of strong negative impacts of Covid-19 and the preventive measures associated with the pandemic for all food sectors. However, there is increasing evidence that the picture is quite nuanced where the Covid...

Mortality represents a major challenge in farming of salmon in open sea cages. Production takes place in large cages with up to 200,000 fish and offers no other treatment of individual fish than euthanasia of moribund fish. Improvements need to take...

The United Kingdom's first large-scale, offshore, long-line mussel farm deployed its first ropes in 2013 in Lyme Bay, southwest United Kingdom, located in an area of seabed that was heavily degraded due to historic bottom-towed fishing. It was...

Aquaculture has been one of the fastest-growing food production systems sectors for over three decades. With its growth, the demand for alternative, cheaper and high-quality feed ingredients is also increasing. In this review, the current trends in...

Aquaculture production comprises a diverse range of species, geographies, and farming systems. The application of genetics and breeding technologies towards improved production is highly variable, ranging from the use of wild-sourced seed through to...

In this paper, it is presented a suggestion for a sustainability assessment framework using the genome editing of salmon as a case study. The salmon farming industry is facing several challenges hindering sustainable production. Genome editing has...

Aquaculture is one of the largest, and fastest growing industries in Norway. Recently, the industry has experienced significant development in the daily operations acquiring new technologies and systems that capture data and automate the different...

Assessing the carbon footprint of marine bivalve aquaculture demands an accurate estimation of the CO2 release associated to capital goods and aquaculture operations but also to the metabolic CO2 budget of the cultured species. Nowadays, there are...