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Sustainable Fisheries and aquaculture

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Socio-economics of fisheries and aquaculture

People across the world are dependent upon fisheries and aquaculture for food, livelihood and income. It is therefore essential to ensure the sustainability of seafood production for generations to come.

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Optimising aquaculture

Using satellite remote sensing methods to improve the efficiency of aquaculture management and spatial planning. Developing new methods for automatic mapping of aquaculture structures at large scale.

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Food security

Supporting sustainable fisheries by understanding their interaction with the ecosystem and the environment and how this can change due to global changes as well as management decisions.

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Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture

Fisheries and aquaculture are important contributors to global food security. Critical issues affecting fisheries are overseen by international strategies: in particular, SDG 14 Life Below Water provides targets on sustainable fishing, supporting small-scale fisheries and countering illegal fishing....

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  AgZero+ Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming

  Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is a partner in a major five-year £13.8 million research programme, named “AgZero+’, to support the UK’s transition towards home-grown food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature.
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  MSPACE: Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects

  MSPACE is a 3 year project designed to drive forward the capability of the four UK nations in designing and implementing climate-smart marine spatial plans.
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  COMFORT: Our common future ocean in the Earth system – quantifying coupled cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients for determining and achieving safe operating spaces with respect to tipping points

  COMFORT will identify tipping point in future marine ecosystems induced by climate change and the associated multiple stressors. The impact of these tipping points on ecosystems will then be assessed and the safe operating space to avoid them identified.
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  Services based on Ecosystem data AssiMiLation: Essential Science and Solutions (SEAMLESS)

  SEAMLESS aims at improving the current European capability to simulate and predict the state of marine ecosystems.
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  FutureMARES: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

  FutureMARES is examining the relations between climate change, marine biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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  GCRF Blue Communities

  GCRF Blue Communities is a 4 year research capacity-building programme for marine planning in East and South-East (E/SE) Asia, funded by UK Research and Innovation’s £225 million Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The programme has 12 interconnected research projects, which will...

30 July 2026

New report forecasts major impacts on the marine food web as sea temperatures rise and plankton shift

A new study from the UK’s Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) warns that continued warming of UK waters is likely causing major changes to the tiny drifting organisms that are the foundation of marine food webs – plankton.

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  From mudflats to markets: research reveals strong economic case for investing in marine nature recovery

  Findings from the Sea The Value project are presented in this latest report, suggesting that by applying a ‘natural capital assessment’ approach, there is genuine potential for marine nat...

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  PML welcomes UK ratification of the High Seas Treaty

  A “landmark moment” for ocean protection, with PML experts warning that the real challenge now lies in delivery.

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  Record-breaking marine heatwave highlights the importance of long-term monitoring

  UK sea temperatures have

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  Heatwave forecast to bring UK seas up to 5°C above average – as octopus bloom highlights changing oceans

  “The sheer abundance of octopus is enormous.”