Aquaculture and sustainable exploitation of marine resources

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.

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CIM consolidates its collaboration links with the Institute of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine Problems of Ukraine

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…

International jurists debate in Vigo the main challenges of sustainable fishing

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…

CIM researchers make progress in improving fish feeding systems in aquaculture

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…

‘Scientific Reports’ publishes a Vigo study on the common origin of all rare hake morphotypes

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 Bocats2 project returns to the North Atlantic to analyze circulation and ocean acidification

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 Seafeed project presents an autonomous and intelligent feeding system for aquaculture

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,…

CIM researchers recommend grouping shellfish banks into clusters following the characteristics of the sediment

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,…

Researchers from the Fish Fisiology group lead a project that will deepen the knowledge of the processes that regulate food intake in fish

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…

Ecocost group researchers lead a project that studies whether ‘Zostera noltei’ meadows improve the breeding of three species of commercial clam

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…

Mussels more resistant to climate change

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…

‘Nature’ publishes a study with the participation of CIM-UVigo on how the sea can respond to food needs in 2050

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…

Researchers from the CIM-UVigo analyze biological parameters and provide management tools for razor clams and sea cucumbers

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…