FISH HEALTH | VETERINARY REGULATION

Brussels, 30 July 2026 | The Aquaculture Advisory Council is calling for these vaccines to be used across epidemiological areas, including between Member States, to enable a faster response to emerging diseases and local pathogen variants


TRAINING | DIGITALISATION

Valencia, 30 July 2026 | AQUATECHinn 4.0 brings together content on RAS, automation, sustainability, biosecurity, welfare, nutrition and reproduction developed by fourteen European organisations


BIOTECHNOLOGY | FUNCTIONAL MICROALGAE

Global, 29 July 2026 | The technology makes it possible to design strains capable of producing specific proteins, pigments, lipids and antigens, but commercial application will depend on genetic stability, scalability, costs and regulation


FEED | REGULATION AND COMPETITIVENESS

Oslo, 29 July 2026 | The reform would broaden ingredient availability for an industry producing 1.9 million tonnes of feed annually and facing estimated additional costs of NOK 1.8 billion from using GM-free raw materials


NUTRITION | FARM-SCALE VALIDATION

Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 28 July 2026 | Seaculture will assess over three months under offshore farming conditions whether the improvements in growth and survival observed in laboratory trials can be maintained at production scale


BUSINESS | AQUACULTURE DIVERSIFICATION

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 28 July 2026 | The company is ending the project planned for the Port of Las Palmas after five years of administrative procedures, having concluded that changes to the conditions and requirements had substantially altered the original proposal


POLICY | FOOD SECURITY

Brussels, 24 July 2026 | The EUSeA alliance argues that the new EU plan has been designed primarily around agriculture and livestock farming and is calling for the forthcoming Vision for Fisheries and Aquaculture 2040 to include a Blue Foods Action Plan.


BIOTECHNOLOGY | GENE EDITING

Europe, 24 July 2026 | The technology already makes it possible to target growth, sex and product quality, but its real potential lies in developing fish that are more resilient to stress, disease and changing farming conditions


AMAZING NATURE | REPRODUCTION

A cellular atlas reveals how androgens form the brood pouch and how the male nourishes oxygenates and immunologically tolerates the embryos


EUROPEAN UNION | CONSUMPTION

Brussels, 21 July 2026 | EUMOFA identifies a shift from weekly consumption towards more occasional purchases and warns that convenience, year-round availability and large retailers’ strategies are concentrating the market around fewer species


REPRODUCTION | SENEGALESE SOLE

Lugo, Spain, 23 July 2026 | Resolving reproductive dysfunction in Senegalese sole will probably require more than interventions targeting the gonads or the application of hormonal treatments.


IN-DEPTH

NUTRITION | AQUAFEEDS

Brussels, 13 July 2026 | The European strategy could increase the availability of local and circular ingredients, but it does not guarantee that aquaculture will gain access to cheaper proteins


Science-to-business | FEEDS

Luxembourg, 3 July 2026 | In terms of total inclusion, the European Commission considers technically feasible ranges of 10% to 15% algae-based ingredients in salmon and trout feeds, and 20% to 25% in feeds of European seabass and gilthead seabream.


INTERVIEW

Iannis Karacostas explains to misPeces how trial units help refine the nutritional requirements of species such as European sea bass, gilthead sea bream and rainbow trout, with the aim of improving growth, feed conversion, product cost and profitability for producers


Videos

  • September 30, 2025
    Garazi Rodríguez, treasurer and co-founder of NOWA. NOWA is a network of women from the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, Network of Women in Aquaculture.
  • September 28, 2025
    At the Aquaculture Europe 2025 – Valencia, misPeces interviewed Javier Ojeda, general manager of APROMAR, who analysed the current state of aquaculture in Spain and Europe and reflected on the steps needed to boost its growth.
  • September 29, 2025
    Valencia played host to the European Aquaculture Europe 2025 conference. In line with its slogan, 'Aquaculture for Everyone', the event brought together 3,115 participants from 97 countries. Plenary speakers, scientific sessions, industry forums and events for students made up the programme.

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