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Food security

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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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  Addressing Challenges of Coastal Communities through Ocean Research for Developing Economies (ACCORD)

  The coastal and marine environments of South East Asia and the Western Indian Ocean (the regional foci of ACCORD) are rich and diverse, possessing high levels of biodiversity and productivity. However, the coastal ecosystems and the services they provide are under threat from growth in human activit...
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  PRIMROSE: Predicting Risk and Impact of Harmful Events on the Aquaculture Sector

  The aquaculture sector of Europe’s Atlantic Arc is negatively impacted by the effects of harmful blooms and microbial pathogens. The PRIMROSE project will further develop ASIMUTH, a harmful algal bloom forecasting system to provide improved forecasts at a higher resolution, a wider suite of pa...
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  S-3 EUROHAB – Sentinel products for detecting EUtROphication and Harmful Algal Bloom events

  S-3 EUROHAB will use the latest satellite technology to improve the way water quality and harmful algal blooms (HABs) are monitored in the English Channel.
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  SOLSTICE-WIO: Sustainable Oceans, Livelihoods and food Security Through Increased Capacity in Ecosystem research in the Western Indian Ocean

  SOLSTICE – WIO is a four year collaborative GCRF project that aims to strengthen capacity in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region to address challenges of food security and sustainable livelihoods for coastal communities.
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  ShellEye

  The ShellEye project will use Earth observation data from satellites and environmental data, such as weather forecasts, to monitor and forecast water quality for the aquaculture industry towards providing an early warning system for harmful algal blooms, and bacterial and viral pollution.

11 July 2026

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

UK sea temperatures have exceeded 20°C in the past few days

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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.”  

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  A ‘super’ El Niño has the power to devastate fishing – and leave seals and sea lions starving

  PML’s Dr Samantha Garrard has written for The Conversation UK about the growing likelihood of a...

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  Detected from space: 20 years of data shows declining photosynthesis in UK and surrounding waters 

  A new study 

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  PML announces new Head of Group for Environmental Intelligence

  It was announced this week that