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The latest AQUAEXCEL2020 newsletter has now been published! This is the 8th newsletter produced through AQUAEXCEL2020 and it includes interesting recent news and highlights from the project, distance learning training courses that are open for registration, stories from recent TNA projects, a tasty fish recipe and a fascinating interview with the Ethics Advisor of the project. You can access issue 8 here. To view previous newsletters visit: https://www.aquaexcel2020.eu/media-centre/media Happy...

The TNA project PIKEPERCHSPERM has been progressing in NAIK (Nemzeti Agrárkutatási és Innovációs Központ), Hungary, over the past few months. Entitled “Different application strategies of salmon gonadoliberin analogue (sGnRHa) to improve sperm quality in outdoor pond system reared pikeperch (Sander lucioperca)”, the project is being performed at the NAIK-SDC installation. Project leader Dr Mustafa Erkan Özgür (Malatya Turgut Özal University, Turkey) and Dr Selim Erdoğan (İnönü University, Turkey...

Image: Concept of DISRUPBREAM TNA project. Photo credits 1: Richard Whitcombe; 2: Xènia Pérez Sitjà Bisphenol A (BPA) and di-isononyl phthalate (DiNP) are two man-made chemicals that are ubiquitous in plastic items and detected in all environmental matrices due to their broad spectrum of applications. Both substances are known as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), having the ability to alter the endocrine system of living organisms, including farmed fish such as gilthead sea bream. Gilthead...

AQUAEXCEL2020 Ethics Advisor - Professor Felicity Huntingford Members of the general public are increasingly concerned about fish welfare, particularly the welfare of the fish they eat, and, partly in response to this concern, the aquaculture industry has taken many steps to improve the welfare of farmed fish. These steps have been informed by an intensive programme of research into many aspects of fish health and welfare and have been carried out by scientists from a range of disciplines, many...