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Aquaculture system turns waste wood into nutritious seafood

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The report is published today in the journal Sustainable Agriculture. Because the Naked Clams don’t put energy into growing shells, they grow much faster than mussels and oysters which can take two years to reach a harvestable size. Wild shipworms are eaten in the Philippines – either raw, or battered and fried like calamari.

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Startups to watch: Innovate UK announces sustainability accelerator programme

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Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. Over the next ten weeks, 13 companies selected from the Sustainable Innovation Fund will work with Innovate UK KTN and their partners growth studio and the ecosystems to further develop propositions and prepare to raise external capital.

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Addressing the need for responsible salmon farming

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The group also attempts to address some of the misinformation and controversies that it says have accrued to the topic of farmed seafood. The ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) is the world’s leading certification scheme for farmed seafood (also known as aquaculture).

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UN report: Ocean-based climate action could deliver a fifth of emissions cuts needed to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C

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The report, produced by the Expert Group of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy – a group of 14 heads of state and government – provides the first ever comprehensive, quantitative analysis into the role that ocean-based solutions can play in the fight against climate change. gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050.

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Transforming flies into degradable plastics

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She also notes that obtaining chitin from flies could avoid possible concerns over some seafood allergies. She says her fly-sourced chitin powder is probably purer, since it lacks the yellowish color and clumpy texture of the traditional product.

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Cleaner water linked with smaller cockles that die younger

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This meant cleaner, healthier water for humans, but fewer nutrients to sustain cockles. Spencer Williams of Gower Coast Seafood said: “I have personally observed how cockles got smaller over the years. This was modernised with two new plants using treatment processes that disinfected the effluent and removed the nitrogen.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

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Tyson Ventures invests under two pillars: sustainability and the internet of food, and its investment initiative has not gone unnoticed by animal welfare and sustainability advocates. The first is sustainability. Reese and I report into Justin Whitmore, who’s Tyson’s first chief sustainability officer.