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Research December 5, 2025

New article: Intention to buy sustainably produced fish: Planned or impulsive behavior?

New article: Intention to buy sustainably produced fish: Planned or impulsive behavior? Attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control over one's behavior significantly predict intentions. When the factor of food engagement is added, higher engagement is shown to reinforce positive attitudes toward sustainable fish. The study also finds that impulsivity moderates the effect of social norms, where...
Research December 5, 2025

New article: "Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Enhances Density and Diversity of Epifaunal Invertebrates Compared to Filamentous Mats in the Central Baltic Sea"

New article: "Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Enhances Density and Diversity of Epifaunal Invertebrates Compared to Filamentous Mats in the Central Baltic Sea" Coastal bottom vegetation is home to a large number of invertebrates and shellfish. In the Baltic Sea, which has major problems with eutrophication, large floating algae accumulations form, which have a negative impact on bottom vegetation, but they can also...
Research News 1 December 2025

Watch Blue Food doctoral student Mar Vall-Llosera in the Seafood advent calendar

Meet Mar Vall-Llosera, a doctoral student at Blue Food, in the Seafood advent calendar. In the first window of the the Seafood advent calendar, you’ll meet Mar Vall-Llosera, a doctoral student at Blue Food and Chalmers University of Technology, who is researching how to extend the shelf life of the green alga Ulva fenestrata, also known as sea lettuce. Window 1 of the the Seafood advent calendar
Events News November 28, 2025

Soon time for the Seafood Christmas Calendar

Soon time for Sjömaten's Christmas calendar Sjömaten's Christmas calendar is back with 24 new slots to take part in during Advent. Every day until Christmas, a short film is published on social media where you get to meet people who work with exciting things in the blue industry in Sweden. New for this year is that the videos are...
Events Research News Webinars November 24, 2025

Watch the webinar "Climate change and animal welfare risks in low-trophic aquaculture"

Watch the webinar "Climate change and animal welfare risks in low-trophic aquaculture" In the project "Farmed low-trophic aquaculture species in a changing climate", researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute have investigated how low-trophic species such as shellfish and sea squirts are affected by the ongoing climate change, focusing on farmed species. On Wednesday, November 19, 2025, researchers Adrianus Both and Åsa Strand...
Research News November 10, 2025

Watch the videos from last year's Seafood Christmas Calendar

Watch the videos from last year’s seafood advent calendar. Since 2022, the Rural Network, the Swedish Rural Economy and Agricultural Society, Sjömatsfrämjandet, and Blue Food have been producing the Seafood advent calendar. It won’t be long before this year’s advent calendar is released, but while you wait, you can watch videos from last year’s calendar featuring two of Blue Food’s young researchers: Mica Andersson from the University of Gothenburg and Pontus Gunnarsson from SLU.
Research News 7 November 2025

New article: "Valorization of whole herring (Clupea harengus) through trimming, mincing and antioxidant washing: Enhancing stability and color for food use"

New article: "Valorization of whole herring (Clupea harengus) through trimming, mincing and antioxidant washing: Enhancing stability and color for food use" By trimming small herring and washing the mechanically separated fish meat, the amount of hemoglobin and enzymes causing oxidation can be significantly reduced. With a rosemary-based antioxidant in the wash water, oxidation was significantly delayed by a...
Events Research News November 5, 2025

Elena Costa will defend her thesis on November 21, 2025

Elena Costa will defend her dissertation on November 21, 2025. Elena Costa, a doctoral student in the “ Blue Food ” program at the Rise Research Institute and the University of Gothenburg, will defend her dissertation, “Food neophobia: a key barrier to consumer acceptance of seafood in Sweden,” on November 21, 2025. Elena Costa’s project focuses on the question of how we can get Swedish consumers to eat more—and more…
Events News 23 October 2025

How the first Seafood Day was celebrated

How the First Seafood Day Was Celebrated On Sunday, October 19, 2025, Seafood Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden. The initiative to highlight all the delicious foods from the ocean, lakes, and aquaculture came from Blue Food and the Swedish Seafood Promotion Association. Even though October 19 was a Sunday, there was a high level of participation from restaurants, companies, universities, and other organizations. Here you can read about…
Events News 16 October 2025

Blue Food annual meeting 2025 at Torsåker farm

Blå mat's annual meeting 2025 at Torsåker gård On October 1 and 2, more than 60 people from all parts of the seafood sector and Sweden met at Torsåker gård for the first annual meeting of Blå mat's second four-year term. During two days of extraordinary hosting by Axfoundation, including innovative food and drink of the most delicious and sustainable kind, the participants were given: