Offshore Shellfish

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

The UK’s shellfish farming industry is a small but very important industry, and it has fantastically huge potential that could put it on par with France and Spain – Europe’s leaders in the space – if it’s provided with a…

21st March 2025

Red tape has UK shellfish aquaculture in a bind

21st March 2025

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood industry body has added two new members to its board, Sarah Holmyard and Georgina Wright.  

12th November 2024

Seafish appoints new board members

12th November 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The UK’s first large-scale offshore mussel farm is allowing shellfish reefs to return to parts of the seabed off England’s south coast for the first time in up to 150 years, a…

21st August 2024

Mussel farm bringing shellfish reefs back to Devon’s seabed

21st August 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scientists, mussel farmers and fishers on the UK’s Devon and Dorset coast are this month beginning the tagging work that will help them assess the impact of offshore aquaculture on the general…

25th March 2024

Lobster tagging to assess habitat restoration effects of offshore aquaculture

25th March 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

In addition to helping meet global fish consumption demands, offshore mussel farms could also have wider benefits for the marine environment, a new study suggests.

28th October 2022

Mussels with benefits

28th October 2022