Fish and aquacultural science
This includes fisfarming,fish genetics, fish breeding, fish ecology and fish ethology. Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants, to be used e.g. as food.
Diss Stefan Skoglund
Population regulatory processes in the Baltic salmon (Salmo salar) charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Stefan Skoglund defends his thesis "Population regulatory processes in the Baltic salmon (Salmo salar)
National Aquaculture Conference 2024: Compensatory fish farming, climate and the way forward in focus
The 2024 National Aquaculture Conference, this time in Umeå, gathered more than 100 participants – all with an interest in aquaculture; from farmers, researchers and processors to authorities and
Örjan Östman
orjan.ostman@slu.se My research interests span spatio-temporal environmental effects on eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations, population structure and distributions, and species interactions in
Joint initiative to find future feed for fish, poultry and pigs
The project “The feed of the future for fish, pigs, poultry and laying hens” led by Axfoundation and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) brings together researchers and practitioners
Unga forskare på SLU belönas med stipendier för att bidra till en frisk Östersjö
Congratulations to Isa Wallin Kihlberg and Erik Karlsson who have each been awarded a scholarship through BalticWaters to conduct studies that can contribute to a healthy Baltic Sea. Isa and Erik are
Fotis Pappas
fotis.pappas@slu.se Doctoral student in Statistical Genetics and Epigenetics The main focal point of my PhD project is linked to identifying possible epigenetic risk factors for decreased fertility
Carl-Gustaf Thulin
carl-gustaf.thulin@slu.se Researcher, Department of Animal Biosciences Researcher (Associate Professor) at the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry. Focus on evolutionary genetics,
SLU söker sportfiskare som vill fiska för forskning
Some species of fish, such as pike and trout, are difficult to catch with the nets and fyke nets normally used in fish monitoring. Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences now
Larvi 2024
Larvi 2024: 8th Fish & Shellfish Larviculture Symposium aquaculture@slu.se Most welcome to Larvi 2024, the 8th Fish and Shellfish Larviculture Symposium 9 to 12 September at Ghent University,
AQUA 2024
AQUA 2024 aquaculture@slu.se Blue Food production must increase! With the help of green solutions, this can happen. AQUA 2024 is a scientific conference taking place from August 26 to 30 in the
Teamwork, weather challenges and rare fish finds – join us on a bottom trawl survey in the North Sea
We would like to say a big thank you to Barbara Bland who is now ending her assignment as expedition leader for IBTS (International Bottom Trawl Survey) on board SLU's research vessel R/V Svea and
Having good neighbours and few top predators make predatory fish populations more resilient
A regime shift is gradually spreading through the archipelagos of the Swedish Baltic Sea coast, where shallow bays, previously dominated by pike and perch have one by one become dominated by one of