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The Global
Aquaculture Alliance is now accepting applications for its ninth annual Global
Aquaculture Innovation Award. The application deadline is June 15.
Established
in 2012, the competition recognizes individuals and companies finding new solutions
to the key challenges facing aquaculture. Examples of aquaculture innovations
include technologies that mitigate the occurrence of animal diseases or parasites,
or that reduce or eliminate the use of antibiotics to treat animals; technologies
that improve production efficiencies at the hatchery or farm levels while mitigating
environmental impact; advances in offshore or land-based recirculation technologies;
novel feed ingredients; reductions in carbon footprint through improved energy
efficiency or regeneration; and social programs designed to improve living and
working conditions at the farm or processing levels.
University of Stirling postdoctoral
researcher Simão Zacarias was the recipient of last year’s eighth annual Global
Aquaculture Innovation Award, sponsored by Lineage Logistics, for his work on
the shrimp-hatchery practice of unilateral eyestalk ablation. His research debunked
the notion that the practice results in higher egg production and showed that
it actually escalates disease vulnerability.
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