Seafish announces board appointments

Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has appointed two new members to its board. Sarah Holmyard and Georgina Wright bring experience from the shellfish and salmon sectors respectively. 

Sarah Holmyard is Head of Sales and Marketing at the award-winning aquaculture company Offshore Shellfish Ltd and was recently appointed as a Director of UK Women in Fisheries.

She has extensive experience of the sea fishing and aquaculture industries, having previously held executive roles at Seafood Scotland, Interfish, Cleanseas and The Kingfish Company.

Georgina Wright  formerly the Sales Director at Mowi Scotland, brings thirty years’ experience of the seafood industry to the Seafish Board. She served as Chair of the Scottish Salmon Industry Brexit Working Group which worked to ensure the industry was successfully prepared for the changes brought by Brexit. 

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Leading climate change scientist to open Australian Seagriculture

man at podium

Professor Tim Flannery, one of Australia’s leading writers on climate change, has been announced as the opening keynote speaker for the Australian Seagriculture Conference in March next year. The conference is organised by DLG Benelux, a subsidiary of DLG (German Agricultural Society), and this year jointly with Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance (ASSA). It takes place…

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Imitation salmon project receives €2m funding boost

Yeast-grown fod resembling a salmon fillet

The quest to find an acceptable non fish version of salmon has been given a €2m-plus boost from the European Union.

The Austrian food-tech company Revo Foods is working with the biotech company Paleo on a project to develop an imitation salmon style fillet using proteins derived from yeast.

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Jellyfish attacks leave a harmful legacy, study finds

Jellyfish in the sea

Jellyfish can still kill and cause problems for fish even after they have left an area, new research suggests.

An article published recently in the scientific journal Aquaculture Environment Interactions show that the economic consequences of a jellyfish incident can be quite long lasting.

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Flying fish

Salmon saviours (from left): Chief Caleen Sisk, Chief of the Winnemem Wintu; Matt Johnson, Senior Environmental Scientist, Supervisor, with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife

A rare Chinook salmon species in California has been given a chance to survive drought conditions thanks to a helicopter airlift, as Julia Hollister reports.

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