Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Meenakshi J, BBC Fisheries & Aquaculture
The green fronds that grow along much of India's shoreline have large potential as a sustainable food source, while helping to fight climate change.
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Pallab Sarker, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture, or fish farming, is the world’s fastest-growing food production sector. But the key ingredients in commercial fish feed – fishmeal and fish oil – come from an unsustainable source: small fish, such as anchovies and herring, near the base of ocean food webs.
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Watch and learn how we are expanding sustainable aquaculture opportunities in the United States to support healthy people, a healthy planet, and a healthy economy.
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Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
For the first time in the history of seafood production, ten of the largest seafood companies in the world have committed to a set of time-bound and measurable goals that will ensure the industry becomes more sustainable.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Early Charm Ventures, which specialises in turning scientific discoveries made at universities into companies focused on growth, has joined Stronger America Through Seafood (SATS).
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
FreshToHome is raising support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) for activities including the development of its “nano farm aquaculture technology”.
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Darius Snieckus, Recharge Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Oceans of Energy development off northern Netherlands aims to accelerate commercialisation of offshore renewables-powered aquaculture.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
Four months after joining the world’s only aquaculture and alternative seafood accelerator programme, eight startups from Hatch’s latest cohort pitched their ideas to investors in an entertaining online event today.
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Nicola Frost and Kristian Teleki, World Resources Institute Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
At this unprecedented moment in time, one message has never been clearer: It is time to forge a new relationship with the ocean — one in which ocean protection and economic production and prosperity go hand-in-hand.
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Erna Solberg, Nature Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
Why I put my political will behind knowledge to benefit the ocean and humanity.
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Jane Lubchenco et al., Nature Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Unleash the ocean’s potential to boost economies sustainably while addressing climate change, food security and biodiversity.
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Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine Fisheries & Aquaculture
A vast, mostly invisible ecosystem shapes life on Earth, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. And the more scientists learn, the more they say it’s in trouble.
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World Wildlife Fund Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded World Wildlife Fund (WWF) $100 million to harness the power of nature to stabilize the climate crisis.
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Editorial staff, Salmon Business Fisheries & Aquaculture
On November 6, “Guoxin 101” was launched out of the port city of Taizhou, to set out on the East China Sea, where the ship will undergo testing, reports tv station Qingdao News, according to Undercurrent News.
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Efua Konyim Okai, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
The Nigerian government has announced plans to establish six new “fish farming estates” around Lagos as a means of increasing fish production and promoting employment.
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Ed Scott-Clarke and Tom Page, CNN Fisheries & Aquaculture
Off the northernmost tip of Northern Ireland, a small island could have a hand in the future of food production.
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Cliff White, SeafoodSource Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new boutique investment firm is seeking to make an impact in the aquaculture sector by tying capital financing in with the integration of environmental and social governance (ESG) principles.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A brand-new aquaculture facility has been opened in the New Zealand port of Tauranga as part of a $13 million algal biotechnology research project.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
The growth and improvement of freshwater aquaculture systems should not be neglected, despite a widespread tendency by investors and policymakers to look towards the oceans as the key area for the growth of global fish farming.
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Economic Development, UN News Fisheries & Aquaculture
In the first story of a two-part series looking at the opportunities and challenges facing Ocean farming, we take a look at the huge potential role of seaweed in mitigating climate change, cutting marine pollution, and achieving the UN goal of Zero Hunger.
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