The sustainable management of marine resources is essential to ensure their survival and contribute to a healthy and safe diet. The need to increase the proportion of food of marine origin, healthier and less costly in energy and environment, cannot be exclusively addressed by fisheries, requiring the development of a biotechnologically advanced aquaculture. Aquaculture is the growing food sector with the fastest production worldwide. The advances in the knowledge of biology, genetics, population dynamics and ecology of exploitable species are the key to ensuring the sustainability of marine resources.
Aquaculture and sustainable exploitation of marine resources
Estefanía Paredes, from UVigo, nominated as associated professor of the UNESCO Chair base don that institution After several years of close collaboration, the Marine Research…
The maritime fishing sector is in the process of transition to a much more sustainable model and, to achieve this, it must be transformed into…
The Fish Physiology and its Application to Aquaculture (PHYStoFISH) research group at the Marine Research Centre has been working for decades on numerous research projects…
The work is part of María Fernández’s doctoral thesis The scientific journal Scientific Reports, belonging to the Nature group, collects the results of a study…
The ocean, an essential element in the evolution of the climate, currently accumulates 93% of the excess heat and 31% of the excess CO2 generated…
The Marine Research Centre participated in the design of a floating feeding system for autonomous, intelligent, easily transportable and energy efficient fish farms. The platform,…
Miguel Ángel Nombela, coordinator of the Geological Oceanography and Biogeochemistry group of the Marine Research Centre of the University of Vigo, CIM, and Ángel Mena,…
The design of more efficient feeding strategies is one of the great challenges that aquaculture faces when it comes to producing fish, a high-quality protein…
Seagrass beds are ecologically critical shallow-water ecosystems, as they play an important role in all coastal processes, making them critical for maintaining populations of commercially…
The 3,373 floating hatcheries or rafts registered in Galicia generate about 11 million euros per year. At the moment, the mussel seed is collected on…
Answering the question of how much food the sea could produce in a sustainable way in 2050 is the objective of the study published in…
Of the 51 million people who are dedicated to fishing in the world, it is estimated that 50 of them work in artisanal fishing, a…