Mayab Molluscks, based on the Yucatan coast of Mexico have managed to successfully rear octopi from eggs.
At first, the octopi were given live feeds but the graduated onto a mix of crab and shrimp.
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The potential food security benefits of combining aquaculture with other farming is being explored by the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD) and University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
In a pilot project, the team used poultry or pig waste to raise maggots to supplement fish feeding and using a stocked fish pond to cultivate lowland rice.
Dr Kolawole Ajani, project coordinator, University of Ibadan, told the Nigerian Tribune that, “the aims of the project include developing viable and sustainable aquaculture with rice and poultry for rural farmers; to ensure integration of livelihood, that is, poultry, piggery, rice and fish farming; to eradicate hunger among small scale farmers”.
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Nofima is collaborating with the University of Tromsø to run a course on management of R&D.
On one hand, the course aims to get the seafood
companies to work more strategically with research, development and
innovation. On the other hand, it aims to help develop closer contact
and interaction between research, industry and funding agencies.
The target group is small and medium-sized seafood companies. The course is particularly aimed at managers, mid-level managers and others who have or are intended to have responsibility for research, development and innovation.
“The objective is to improve the companies’ ability to run their own R&D activities, and the course will also help to raise the industry’s expertise in commissioning research, so that research funding is spent on research that is even better adapted to meet the industry’s needs,” said Audun Iversen from the food research institute Nofima.
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The target group is small and medium-sized seafood companies. The course is particularly aimed at managers, mid-level managers and others who have or are intended to have responsibility for research, development and innovation.
“The objective is to improve the companies’ ability to run their own R&D activities, and the course will also help to raise the industry’s expertise in commissioning research, so that research funding is spent on research that is even better adapted to meet the industry’s needs,” said Audun Iversen from the food research institute Nofima.
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