On December 9th 2021, NUI Galway presented the ShellAqua project at an online workshop organised by BIM for the rope mussel producers of Ireland. This webinar provided an overview of ongoing technical projects supported by BIM and support available for the industry for 2022 and beyond for the sector. There were three technical talks covering: […]
ShellAqua at Circular Bioeconomy Innovation Exchange
The MOREFISH team was invited to give an online presentation at the Circular Bioeconomy Innovation exchange organised by the Circular Bioeconomy Cluster South West on the 2nd of December 2021. The theme of this session was “Marine sector: Ecosystem services and blue carbon”. The MOREFISH presentation, given by Alex Tahar, focused on the recently funded […]
NEPTUNUS Ecolabel webinar
On November 29th, NUI Galway presented NEPTUNUS at an Interregional workshop on promoting relevant EU ecolabels within the framework of Europe. The workshop was organised by the University of Patras as part of the Interreg Europe project EXTRA-SMEs. The workshop brought together perspectives from Greece, Finland, Poland, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and Ireland. The participants represented […]
ShellAqua
NUI Galway Aquaculture Project to Quantify Ecosystem Services Provided by the Irish Shellfish Sector The ShellAqua Project will measure the potential benefits provided by shellfish aquaculture A new research project, ShellAqua, aims to quantify the ecosystem services, that is the benefits to humans provided by the natural environment from healthy ecosystems, potentially provided by shellfish […]
NEPTUNUS – Northern European Aquaculture event
The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) recently presented at an interregional workshop on aquaculture and circular economy implementation in Ireland, Finland and Poland the workshop was organised by the Interreg Europe funded project EXTRA-SMEs. Researchers, stakeholders and experts from Lapland University of Applied Sciences (LAPIN AMK), Resources Institute Finland, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the […]
March 2018 Stakeholder Meeting
On the 15th of March 2018, the third stakeholder meeting of the MOREFISH project took place in the Sheraton Hotel in Athlone. The event proved to be the largest of the meetings to date with 62 attendees, consisting of representatives from industry (14 farms represented – approx 90% of freshwater farms), research, academia and regulatory […]
2019 Activities
It has been a busy few months with the EcoAqua project. We have completed our sampling campaigns, all relevant data is now being analysed and will be presented to our partners in the coming weeks and months. Some of the results that can be expected include: Four life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on salmon smolt, […]
Aqua 2018 – #WeRAquaculture (Montpellier, France 25-29 August 2018)
The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) and the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) host a joint global aquaculture event every 6 years which was hosted this year in Montpellier, France, entitled AQUA 2018. This conference discussed and explored the fact that aquaculture is one of the most important food industries in the world, and showcased all the […]
EcoAqua
New Project to Significantly Improve Efficiencies in Fish Farming An innovative multidisciplinary aquaculture project led by NUI Galway and Athlone Institute of Technology is set to improve production efficiencies and management of farmed fish at several inland freshwater sites. The project ‘ECOAQUA’ has received €348,781 in funding under the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF), administered by […]
IFM 2017
IFM 2017, Belfast – The Big Fish MOREFISH attendance: Ronan Cooney (NUIG) Presentation: Poster The Institute of Fisheries Management annual conference was held in Belfast from the 10th – 12th of October 2017. The event was very well attended with delegates from Ireland, the UK and the USA to name a few. This was the […]
