AE2014: REPORT on the Performance of the sea bass and sea bream sector

During the AE2014 event in Donostia - San Sebastian, EAS and EATiP co-organised a special one-day event to address the production performance of the sea bass and sea bream sector by providing a forum for discussion of some of the important technical challenges that underlie production performance.
The event brought together our scientific and production knowledge to help better explain and understand the issues that may contribute to this position, so as to facilitate cooperation and actions to solve them. The full report of this succesful event is available by clicking on the cover photo.

Study Report on EU aquaculture for the European Parliament

EAS (Alistair Lane), FEAP (Courtney Hough) and University of Stirling (John Bostock) have recently completed a study requested by the European Parliament that provides an assessment of the impact, economic and ecological, of increased growth of the European aquaculture sector by identifying the challenges to growth and how these may be overcome.
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Job vacancies at FAI Ardtoe Marine research Facility

FAI are looking to appoint a Manager and Trials Assistant for the Fish Health Unit at their research facility in Ardtoe, Scotland. More details here.

EAS honours Michael New and Yves Harache

At the opening session of its Aquaculture Europe 2014 event in Donostia-San Sebastián in Spain on October 14th, the European Aquaculture Society (EAS ) gave its Honorary Life Membership Award to Michael New and its Distinguished Service Award to Yves Harache, for their long-term contributions to the development of aquaculture and the activities of the Society. AE2014 was attended by almost 1500 participants from 71 countries, making it the biggest Aquaculture Europe event to date.

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DIVERSIFY looks at emerging species for EU aquaculture

Over the next 5 years, the EU project DIVERSIFY will study a number of new/emerging finfish species, with great potential for the EU aquaculture industry. These new/emerging species (meagre, greater amberjack, wreckfish, halibut, grey mullet and pikeperch) are fast growing and/or large finfishes marketed at a large size and can be processed into a range of products to provide the consumer with both a greater diversity of fish species and new value-added products. See the DIVERSIFY web site for more.

Major players in aquaculture production support the EAS

EAS is pleased to announce the support of Marine Harvest and Kiliç Deniz as new Premium Sponsors and of Skretting as sponsor of the EAS Student Group.
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Aquaculture International Impact Factor continues to rise!

Aquaculture International (AQUI) is the peer-reviewed journal of the EAS. Its 2016 Impact Factor (IF) was 1.095, thus reaching one of the main objectives of the Editorial Board and EAS Board. In 2017, the IF rose again to 1.283.

We are proud to see that it has now exceeded the milestone level of 1 for the last 5 years and hope very much that this will encourage more publications from EAS members and non-members. See more on submitting papers to AQUI

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