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Turning up the heat: Advancing UK science to better predict and respond to marine heatwaves

...(Fig 1). This year, due to a combination of long-term climate change and short-term climate variability due to  El Niño, global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) hit record highs. Decades of...

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

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...and mud crab disease diagnosis, DNA/RNA extraction, and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) analysis. The goal was to train participants in diagnosing crustacean diseases and identifying new pathogens, using a "train...

What do a Communications Officer, a Shellfish Scientist and a Fish Health Inspector have in common?

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...Health Inspectorate aims to protect the health of fish and shellfish in the UK ensuring our ability to trade internationally. We do this through a programme of inspections, disease investigations,...

Expanding the concept of 'blue carbon’: Cefas science on coastal ecosystems and their role in tackling climate change

turtle swimming above seagrass

...species, filtering contaminants and nutrients to improve water quality, and creating a buffer to help protect against sea level rise, flooding, and coastal erosion. Unfortunately, like many blue carbon habitats...

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

...of this ‘valley’. Figure 1 – The “innovation valley of death” (https://www.ideatovalue.com/inno/nickskillicorn/2021/05/the-innovation-valley-of-death/) The seaweed aquaculture industry in the UK and Europe is novel but has been growing in the last...

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

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...how the One Health concept can help tackle the world’s pressing challenges of food safety and security, environmental pollution, human health, climate change, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic disease. The event...

Marbled Crayfish: a serious non-native threat, with potential risk of introduction through the pet trade. 

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marbled crayfish

...highlights, today’s blog shares the threats marbled crayfish pose to our ecosystems and economy.  Thought to be possibly of North American origin (and a carrier of the disease, crayfish plague),...