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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Events News March 31, 2026

Annual Meeting in Simrishamn in November

Annual Meeting in Simrishamn in November In November, the partners of Blå mat will gather in Simrishamn for the sixth annual meeting of the center. The event will be hosted by Marint Centrum, and seafood from the Baltic Sea will be a key theme. Once again, this will be a two-day annual meeting, on Wednesday, November 18, and Thursday, November 19. We are planning for a full day on Wednesday, so a…

Events Research News Webinars March 24, 2026

Watch the webinar “Sustainable Consumption of Fish from the Baltic Sea – Value, Preparedness, and the Future of Blue Food”

Watch the webinar “Sustainable Consumption of Fish from the Baltic Sea – Value, Preparedness, and the Future of Blue Food” In the research project “Implementation of sustainable business models that depend on and sustain local/regional fish stocks in the Baltic Sea,” Cecilia Solér, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, has investigated which concrete management measures could create the conditions for conducting…

Research News March 19, 2026

New report: Climate change impacts on Ostrea edulis

New report: Climate change impacts on Ostrea edulis Climate change poses risks that can both benefit and threaten the well-being of the European oyster, Ostrea edulis. Changes in temperature, salinity, and acidity are factors that can affect growth and survival, both directly and indirectly. High temperatures during the summer can have a negative impact, but during the rest of the year…

Events News March 17, 2026

Blå mat exhibited at the Nordic Seafood Summit

Blå mat exhibited at the Nordic Seafood Summit For the fourth time, Blå mat participated in the annual seafood trade fair, the Nordic Seafood Summit. At the Blå mat booth, researchers and doctoral students from the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers, KTH, and Rise demonstrated models, samples, animals, and feed, and discussed the wide-ranging research being conducted within the research cluster. On stage, they answered…

Mathilda Karlsson, Uppsala University

“Marine observations with a focus on blue food – availability, extraction potential, and strategies for sustainable use”

Vita Weitong Xu, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

“Sustainable Scaling Up of the Seaweed Industry in Scandinavia and the Nordic Countries”

Laura Kvarnstrand, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

"Underwater Robotic Mapping with Fluorescence and Hyperspectral Analysis for Ecological Applications"

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"

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"