SINTEF Ocean news

The AEGIS project has won the 'Market Uptake' award at the European Commission's conference on European maritime transport, Waterborne Days, recently held in Brussels.

"Being selected to contribute to this work is an honor" says Chief Scientist Rachel Tiller.

The issue of salmon feed has become a bottleneck, hindering the growth and sustainability of the Norwegian aquaculture sector. In the future, insect meal, bristle worms and bacteria that consume CO₂ may become essential components of a farmed salmon...

Researchers have succeeded in nurturing a small snail called periwinkles in the laboratory for the very first time and are hoping that this French delicacy might be the launch pad for a new, Norwegian aquaculture business.

The use of kelp boasts great potential across several sectors, including food products, animal feed, biodegradable plastics and agriculture. Now GP Seaweed is setting the industry in motion.

Despite the EU's ambitions, there has been no success in transferring more cargo transport from road to European rivers and canals, also referred to as waterways, in recent years.

Is it only farmed fish that are responsible for spreading salmon lice larvae? Or is it also possible that wild salmon can infect farmed fish? This is what researchers will be trying to find out.

This year’s European conference gathered top expertise to Trøndelag, which is already home to a growing seaweed industry.

Autonomous vessels becoming increasingly widespread.