Food Security

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

New research has found that aquatic invertebrates provide substantial essential nutrients, strengthening their role in sustainable global food systems

3rd September 2026

Aquatic invertebrates underpin global nutrition

3rd September 2026

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest ports group, has extended its property portfolio with the acquisition of the long leasehold interest of Grimsby Seafood Village, saying the purchase of the seafood processing centre provides future security and support for…

20th June 2025

ABP buys Grimsby Seafood Village

20th June 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched its most comprehensive and participatory global assessment of marine fish stocks to-date. Including contributions from more than 650 experts from…

19th June 2025

Moving in the right direction – FAO releases latest, biggest assessment of global fish stocks

19th June 2025

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

While aquaculture is widely recognised as being crucial to global food security, the recent Blue Food Innovation Summit heard the industry needs to do much more to ensure it can meet the…

16th April 2025

UN: Global food security requires ‘silicon fjord’ innovation to trickle down to all aquaculture

16th April 2025

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Albanese Government’s commitment of AUD 3.5 million to develop new national food security strategy: Feeding Australia has been welcomed by Seafood Industry Australia (SIA).

4th March 2025

Australian food security strategy lauded by seafood industry

4th March 2025

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The 36th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI36), 8-12 July 2024, held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, focused on the…

11th July 2024

COFI focuses on food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty

11th July 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

After nearly a century of dams being built on most of the world’s major rivers, artificial reservoirs now represent an immense freshwater footprint across the landscape. Yet, these reservoirs are understudied and…

1st May 2024

Study: US reservoirs hold billions of pounds of fish

1st May 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

The Royal Thai Government must drop new legislation that’s looking to deregulate the country’s fishing industry and instead reform its fisheries, according to the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), with a new report…

4th March 2024

EJF: Pair trawling turning future valuable catches into today’s ‘trash fish’

4th March 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new study reveals for the first time substantial benefits for Zambian farmers from adopting smallholder aquaculture. The research, published in Agriculture & Food Security, provides evidence of how fish farming diversifies livelihoods and improves…

2nd February 2024

Zambian farmers benefiting from smallholder aquaculture

2nd February 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Farmed wolffish could start appearing on fish counters – offering consumers a new variety of tasty whitefish – but it does require somewhat different farming conditions from that of salmon, finds a new thesis from the University of…

31st October 2023

Farmed wolffish – a future alternative to salmon?

31st October 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

International research organisation WorldFish has embarked on an initiative with Norway aimed at refining, testing and scaling innovative renewable energy solutions for the aquaculture sector in Egypt. 

11th July 2023

WorldFish, Norway target Egyptian aqua growth

11th July 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The United Kingdom’s Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has appointed Professor Grant Stentiford as its new Chief Scientist. Stentiford will lead Cefas’ scientific research and provide expert advice to government, industry and academia – helping tackle…

3rd April 2023

Cefas appoints new chief scientist

3rd April 2023