The new fish-free feed is the first to demonstrate across-the-board gains in sustainability, performance, economic viability, and human health.
Sustainable food systems, the situation in the European agricultural market as well as specific challenges related to COVID-19 and African swine fever were the main items discussed during the informal videoconference meeting of the agricultural and fisheries ministers. Ministers also touched upon the EU forest related policies and the EU forest strategy.
Sealogy, the European Exhibition on Blue Economy, is the first Italian trade fair entirely dedicated to the sea and its resources, conceived to become the international reference event for the Blue Economy sectors, where all actors of the supply chains actively contribute to sustainable development and innovation.
A ‘women’s pastime’ practised by Queen Victoria, ‘seaweeding’ spread from the UK to California – now the samples are providing a glimpse into history
The world is facing depleting fish stocks and fish farming – or aquaculture – offers solutions and could help ensure food security. But aquaculture has been called out for challenging natural biodiversity. Applying technology such as AI, machine learning, satellite data and geospatial datasets can make fish farming sustainable while providing the evidence to prove it.
Fish are food. We know that. And yet, in discussions about the future of food, that simple fact tends to be forgotten. When world leaders gather for the UN Food System Summit next year, fish and other aquatic foods need to be on the table.
The COASTAL Biogas project objective is to provide solutions based on anaerobic digestion of cast seaweed to coastal regions to tackle eutrophication, contribute to the transition to a circular bio-economy and improve prosperity.
How Galicia's fertile ocean offers its people the finest flavours of the sea
Why does cod in European seas continue to decline, and could climate change be playing a part?
Best performing “fish-free” diet contains algae oil rich in essential omega-3 fatty acids.
Policy reforms and technological improvements could drive seafood production upward by as much as 75% over the next three decades, research by Oregon State University and an international collaboration suggests.
The European Commission adopted an updated action plan for a sustainable, resilient and competitive blue economy in the EU Atlantic area, covering France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
The EU is actively promoting sustainable fisheries around the world. In this context, the EU has on 7 July extended the protocol to the existing Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) with the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for one year.
A recent project led by Spanish researchers, along with help from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has come up with an innovative new material with which to make batteries used for storing renewable energy. By extracting ‘chitin’ from the shell of a shrimp, scientists can produce electrodes to form vanadium flow batteries.
Ocean explores Europe's growing seaweed sector meeting the farmers trying to put the industry on the map.
In line with the European Green Deal, algae farming can support sustainable economic growth, employment and the bioeconomy in coastal regions and across Europe.
On June 11, 2020, the European Commission published “The EU Blue Economy Report 2020”, an overview of the performance of the EU economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment. With a turnover of €750 billion in 2018, the EU blue economy is in good health.
The additional funding is part of the Recovery Package and follows earlier EU support measures to alleviate the immediate socio-economic impact on the sector. The Commission will work closely with EU countries to ensure that the additional funding contributes to a swift recovery, in line with the European Green Deal and the ambitions of the common fisheries policy.
To find out more about what Europe is doing to help the continent's fishing industry cope with the coronavirus pandemic, Ocean's Denis Loctier spoke to Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries.
