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Aquaculture Europe 2017. Participation of MedAID in the Industry Forum: Cooperation in Mediterranean Aquaculture: A Croatian Perspective

10th November 201725th May 2018superadminLeave a comment

The recent main event of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS), Aquaculture Europe 17 – Cooperation for Growth (AE2017), held in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik (Croatia) was again a great success, with 1700 participants from more than 60 countries.

During the congress, as in previous EAS conferences, an industry Forum took place: “Mediterranean Cooperation Industry Forum”. It was a one-day meeting (held on 20th September 2017), to deal with the main challenges that Mediterranean aquaculture must face.Continue reading

MedAID leads H2020 project session at Spain’s Aquaculture National Congress

10th October 201725th May 2018Diego LozanoLeave a comment

The Rectorate and Conference center of the University of Zaragoza hosted Spain’s 14th Aquaculture National Congress, from 3 to 5 October 2017. Around 300 aquaculture experts came together under the heading “Our aquaculture, a safe bet” to discuss feeding and nutrition, breeding and genetics, pathology, health and welfare, aquariology, food quality and consumption, environment and spatial planning, production and technology or business innovations.Continue reading

MedAID’s partners participate in the 21st Annual Workshop of the National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) for fish diseases

29th May 201725th May 2018Lucía Lopez MarcoLeave a comment

From the 30th to the 31st of May, the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) for fish diseases, in Denmark, will host the 21st Annual Workshop.

Around 60 participants from more than 35 countries will attend the workshop, amongst them partners from the MedAID consortium, such as Niccolò Vendramin and Niels Jørgen Olesen from DTU-Denmark, Anna Toffan from IZSVe- Italy, Snjezana Zrncic from HVI-Croatia and Nadia Chérif from INSTM-Tunisia.

The workshop programme can be downloaded here and more information about the workshop and the daily work of the EURL for fish diseases can be found here: www.eurl-fish.eu.

European Research project to boost Mediterranean fish farming

15th May 201725th May 2018Lucía Lopez MarcoLeave a comment

Europe presently consumes twice as much seafood as it produces, with imports filling the gap. Despite this fact, aquaculture accounts for about 20% of production in Europe and directly employs some 85 000 people, mostly in rural and coastal areas. In contrast with the development seen in other non EU Mediterranean countries, aquaculture production is stagnating in Europe. This is the reason why the European Commission has proposed the target of a 20% increase in sustainable aquaculture production in the Mediterranean. With the aim of supporting this objective the MedAID project has been born, and its outcomes are expected to be vital in strengthing European marine fish production.Continue reading