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Optimising aquaculture

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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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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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  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...

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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  PML announces new Head of Group for Environmental Intelligence

  It was announced this week that

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  MEDIA: Tuna has overtaken cod as the UK’s top‑selling seafood – here’s why

  PML’s Professor Angus Atkinson MBE writes for

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  Mapping toxin-producing phytoplankton; the scourge of shellfisheries

  Researchers in the UK, including phytoplankton experts from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups, known to produce natural toxins that can halt shellfish harvesting, have changed in the North East Atlantic over the last six decades.

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  PML team celebrates win at Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025! 

  We’re delighted to announce that,