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This Forum is focusing on promoting sustainable supply from the Scottish aquaculture sector. It provides research and advice relevant to developing sustainable aquaculture and encompasses the entirety of the Scottish aquaculture sector, including fin-fish, invertebrates and algae.
2024: MASTS Annual Science Meeting, Special Session on “Sea Lice Surveillance and Modelling” and Workshop on “Innovations in Sea Lice Monitoring”The Workshop was organised by Dr Helena Reinhardy (SAMS-UHI) and Dr Thangavel Thevar (University of Aberdeen) and well-attended with about 40 participants.
The Session was co-chaired by Dr Sandy Murray (Marine Directorate, Scottish Government) and Dr Helena Reinhardy (SAMS-UHI), with a total of 7 talks:
The latest issue of The Grower is now available at https://www.assg.org.uk/ and includes:
Published after a MASTS ASM 2022 Workshop on EDI in Scottish Aquaculture by Ingrid Kelling and Ibrahim Lawan (2023).
Read the paper here!
The Fisheries Science Forum is a world-class fisheries science collective which provides research and advice relevant to sustainable fisheries management. Find out more about its activities and objectives here!
The pace and scale of aquaculture development in Scotland has been accompanied and underpinned by the growth of world leading aquaculture research expertise in our Universities and research institutes, many of whom have been at the heart of European and wider international efforts to develop sustainable aquaculture.
The forum encompasses the entirety of the Scottish aquaculture sector, including fin-fish, invertebrates and algae. Multidisciplinary research is critical to support the ecological, social and economic aims of the aquaculture industry, and MASTS is working with the industry to achieve these aims.
Scotland has been proactive in developing a robust and effective policy and regulatory framework for aquaculture. MASTS research contributes through helping reduce the losses related to disease and parasites, diversifying marine fish and algae production, managing and genetically improving farmed species, replacing and reducing marine ingredients within aquafeeds, site design including contained production systems and colocation with marine renewables development, and ensuring a sustainable and ethical supply of food for the future.
Dr | Assistant Professor | Global Research Institutes & The Lyell Centre
Interests: Fisheries, aquaculture, small-scale fisheries, global value chains, marketing seafood, food security, wellbeing economy | Large and small-scale projects in developing countries, particularly Southeast Asia and seafood markets in Europe.
MASTS was founded in 2009 to be a unique collaboration between marine research organisations, government and industry.
Charity Number: SC045259
Company Number: SC485726
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