The HotFish Podcasts Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling

In this episode, Dave Little talks with Reed Ozretich who specialises in a One Health approach to aquaculture in the context of a changing climate. He's been working on a Belmont-funded project in Brazil and Ivory Coast coordinated by Giulio de Leo, at Stanford University, but working with local partners focusing on understanding the dynamics of snails as vectors for schistosomiasis; what, if any, is the role of farmed fish in controlling them? Reed talks here about his recent work in Ivory Coast with Professor Eliezer N’Goran. at UFHB in Abidjan.

Researchers discuss a comparative production trial between mixed-sex and conventional all-male stocks of tilapia farmed in cages in Thailand. This showed that males can perform as well in mixed-sex culture and that smaller females can boost total cage production. Financial analysis demonstrated why this is not current practice, but indicated that if a market premium could be obtained for non-sex-reversed fish, and/or smaller fish sold into markets where these command a higher price, this could become a more attractive strategy with wider social benefits.

In this podcast, Professor David Little talks with Associate Professor Abdullah-Al Mamun from the Department of Fisheries and Marine Science at Noakhali Science and technology University, Bangladesh, about the findings of his research among shrimp farming communities in South West Bangladesh that prawn farming in extensive systems also produced large co-catch of other species that benefited nutritionally vulnerable people.

In this episode Professor David Little speaks with Dr Wenbo Zhang of Shanghai Ocean University about a new collaborative Nature publication which makes the case that freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but that its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research.

This week, Dave Little is interviewing Dr. Richard Newton, who discusses his work on the idea of ecologically responsible intensification of fish farming through improvements in farming efficiency and the reuse or repurposing of waste products throughout our supply chains.

In this episode, Professor Dave Little talks with Wesley Malcorps about his study as part of the EU GAIN Project, on the nutritional characterisation of European aquaculture processing by-products, to facilitate strategic utilisation.