Blue Food - Centre for future seafood

The purpose of Blue Food - Centre for future seafood, is to harness the enormous potential that exists in the production of nutritious food from Swedish waters and thus make Sweden a leading producer of sustainable seafood.

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News Newsletter June 13, 2025

News from Blue Food #17 (June 2025)

News from Blue Food #17 (June 2025) In the second newsletter of the year you can read about: News from Blue Food #17 (June 2025)

Research News June 10, 2025

New report: Synergies and conflicts for Swedish primary seafood production

New report: Synergies and conflicts for Swedish primary seafood production The seafood sector experiences negative interactions with a number of other activities, including protected areas, wind power, military interests and heavy industry, but also seals, cormorants and commercial shipping. The bright spots are interactions with tourism and - for land-based fish farming - industrial symbiosis in the form of waste heat...

Events News 23 May 2025

Blue food in Nordstan during the Science Festival

Blå mat in Nordstan during the Science Festival On April 4 and 5, Blå mat participated in the Science Festival in Gothenburg together with the National Center for Marine Aquaculture Research, Swemarc. Blå mat's researchers and PhD students met visitors in Nordstan and demonstrated aquaculture in the form of models, algae and good food.

Events News 19 May 2025

Annual meeting on October 1 and 2, 2025 at Torsåker farm

Annual meeting on October 1 and 2, 2025 at Torsåker farm Blå mat's annual meeting 2025 will take place on October 1 and 2 at Torsåker farm, Axfoundation's test farm and development center for future sustainable material and food systems, north of Stockholm. Invitations have been sent out to all partners of the center. The planning of the annual meeting is in full swing, program and information on practicalities...

Sara Kurland, Uppsala University

"High-resolution temporal monitoring of marine biodiversity in Gotland"

Marica Andersson, GU

"Co-cultivation of fed and extractive species in Swedish land-based recirculating aquaculture systems"

Pontus Gunnarsson, SLU

"Effect of next generation feed sources on aquaculture manure in plant/microbial production, on gut biota and metabolic effect on the fish as food"

Elena Costa, RISE and University of Gothenburg

"Obstacles and fears - food neophobia in seafood consumption"

John Axelsson, Chalmers

"Valorization of whole/gutted small herring and sprat into protein-enriched ingredients"

Mar Vall-Llosera Juanola, Chalmers

"Stabilization and Ulva sp. biomass and it's effects on nutritional properties, microstructure, technofunctionality and development of volatile compounds"