Aquaculture

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week - act now, protect our present, secure our future

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens modern medicine, rendering infections untreatable, surgeries risky, and lives vulnerable. Without urgent action, routine illnesses could become deadly, reversing decades of clinical progress and endangering global health security.  The health of humans, animals, and the environment …

Tackling the “Silent Pandemic” – UK’s FAO Antimicrobial Resistance Reference Centre leads Singapore workshop

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As part of the UK’s FAO Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Cefas recently co-delivered a five-day workshop on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) for bacterial pathogens relevant to aquatic organisms, together with the UK’s Animal Plant Health Agency (APHA), the …

Supporting Ecological and Economic Resilience in the Maldives’ Marine Ecosystems - Ocean Country Partnership Programme

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By Sarah Allison The Ocean Country Partnership Programme is a bilateral technical assistance and capacity building programme that provides tailored support to countries to manage the marine environment more sustainably, including by strengthening marine science expertise, developing science-based policy and …

Defra’s One Food programme collaborates with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on systems approaches for food sustainability.

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The One Food programme team at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) recently visited the FAO head office in Rome, Italy to co-lead a collaborative workshop on multi-hazard monitoring and …

Strengthening Fisheries Compliance: OCPP’s Training Mission in Madagascar

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Author: Amy Anderson (MMO) In October, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO)’s Global Marine Team undertook a deployment to Madagascar under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP). The Ocean Country Partnership Programme is a bilateral technical assistance and capacity building programme …

Strengthening Marine Science and Sustainability: The Ocean Country Partnership Programme in Maldives

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In October, the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team from Cefas visited the Maldives to enhance local expertise in the collection of data from fishers, water quality monitoring and OSPAR methods of beach monitoring. The visit began with adverse weather …

World AMR Awareness Week - working together to tackle the global challenge

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World AMR Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, 18-24th November, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to promote best practices to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. Antimicrobial resistance occurs …

Ocean Country Partnership Programme in Sri Lanka - climate change, seafood and pollution updates.  

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Authors: Peter Randall, Charlotte Reeve, Alessandra Bielli, Bryan-Goodsir Thompson, Kelly Bateman, Angharad Elliman Through the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP), Sri Lanka and the UK are collaborating to tackle the three key challenges of marine biodiversity, marine pollution and sustainable …

The One Food programme at the World One Health Congress, South Africa

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Authors: Julie Bremner (Cefas), Grant Stentiford (Cefas), Flavie Vial (APHA), Essa Suleman (CSIR) The UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) recently attended the 8th World One Health Congress (WOHC) …

Emerging from the ‘innovation valley of death’: Opportunities and challenges for the seaweed industry in the UK and Europe.

Every new industry or technology requires funding to survive, initially for research and development (R&D), developing processes and products, and then to scaling up to a viable business. A lot of the initial research is supported by public funding, which …