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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 farmingPlymouth 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. -
MSPACE: Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate EffectsMSPACE 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. -
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 pointsCOMFORT 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. -
SEAMLESS: 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. -
FutureMARES: Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and BiodiversityFutureMARES is examining the relations between climate change, marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. -
GCRF Blue CommunitiesGCRF 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...
Related News
23 March 2026
New roadmap launched to help future-proof ocean management in UK Overseas Territories against climate change
This roadmap has been co-developed with UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) groups to support the implementation of climate-smart principles into marine management approaches.
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New spatial prioritisation tool launched to reduce climate risks for the ocean, nature and peopleASPACE has been built with, and for, those whose decisions shape the future of the ocean
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PML scientists to showcase cutting-edge research at Ocean Sciences MeetingFrom marine carbon dioxide removal to AI-powered biodiversity monitoring, PML scientists will present the latest research addressing some of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time – and explore how the ocean both responds to climate change – an...
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MEDIA: Drastic seaweed growth threatens marine life and fishing – but also offers opportunitiesPML’s Dr Yanna Alexia Fidai writes for The Conversation UK on how native and invasive (non-native) seaweeds are appearing in quantities that are hard to ignore.
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MEDIA: Will 2026 be the year when coral reefs pass their tipping point?PML’s Dr Samantha Garrard writes for The Conversation UK on what the year ahead could mean for coral reefs.
