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 23, 2026

News from Blå mat #23 (June 2026)

News from Blå mat #23 (June 2026) In Blå mat's latest newsletter, you can read about: News from Blå mat #23 (June 2026)

News Education and training June 22, 2026

A Comprehensive Seafood Course for Young Researchers

Comprehensive Seafood Course for Young Researchers The seafood value chain is both long—from production to consumption—and broad. Blå mat’s doctoral and postdoctoral researchers delve deeply into their projects, primarily focusing on specific areas, but at the same time, they benefit greatly from understanding the seafood sector as a whole from multiple perspectives. Blå mat’s course “The…

Events News June 18, 2026

Meet Blå mat's researchers during Almedalen Week

Meet Blå mat’s researchers during Almedals Week During Almedals Week 2026, Blå mat will participate in two seminars organized by Östersjödagarna. Meet our researchers in person or watch the seminars remotely. Wednesday, June 24, 3:00 p.m. – From Knowledge to Action – What Does It Take to Reduce Nutrient Leaching in Agriculture? – With Blå mat’s centre director Gröndahl, KTH. Wednesday…

News Webinars June 3, 2026

Watch the webinar “Large-scale Aquaculture – A Look at China”

Watch the webinar “Large-Scale Aquaculture—A Look at China.” In April, a group of Blue Food researchers and doctoral students from KTH took a study trip to China to examine the country’s large-scale algae cultivation and seafood production in collaboration with their partner university, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In Blue Food’s latest open webinar, Fredrik Gröndahl, a researcher at KTH, and Vita Weitong Xu, a doctoral student at…

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"