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Research News December 16, 2025

Three new research projects and two travel grants approved

Satellite projects: Three new research projects and two travel grants approved The Blue Food management team approved funding for three new research projects and two travel grants at its meeting on November 7. Research project: "Swedish fish farming – value chains, added value, and future potential" Academic partner: University of Gothenburg Co-applicant: Matfiskodlarna The project's goal is to analyze how Swedish-farmed fish contributes to value creation and the Swedish economy through...
News Education and training December 15, 2025

Doctoral course at the University of Gothenburg: "Transdisciplinary methods for the development of sustainable aquaculture"

Doctoral course at the University of Gothenburg: "Transdisciplinary methods for the development of sustainable aquaculture" NOTE: NEW DATES! The Blue Food Department at the University of Gothenburg is offering a doctoral course in April and May 2026, in interdisciplinary collaboration between natural science and social science departments at GU and the Ecological Aquaculture Foundation, Maine, USA: "Transdisciplinary approaches to sustainable marine aquaculture." The course begins with an intensive week at Tjärnö...
Research News December 8, 2025

See Blue Food doctoral student Kristina Bergman in Seafood's Christmas calendar

See Blue Food doctoral student Kristina in Seafood's Christmas calendar In door 6 of Seafood's Christmas calendar, you will meet Blue Food doctoral student Kristina Bergman, KTH, who is researching how to compare a large number of sustainability aspects for different types of seafood. Door 6 in Seafood's Christmas calendar
Research News 1 December 2025

See Blue Food PhD student Mar Vall-Llosera in the Seafood Christmas Calendar

See Blue Food PhD Mar Vall-Llosera in Sjömaten's Christmas calendar In the first window of Sjömaten's Christmas calendar, you will meet Blue Food PhD Mar Vall-Llosera, Chalmers, who is researching how the shelf life of the green alga Ulva fenestrata, sea lettuce, can be extended. Window 1 in the Seafood Christmas 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 films from last year's Seafood Christmas Calendar Since 2022, the Rural Network, the Swedish Society of Hushållningssällskapet, Sjömatsfrämjandet and Blå mat have produced the Seafood Christmas Calendar. Soon it will be time for this year's Christmas calendar, but while you wait for them, you can watch films from last year's calendar with two of Blå mat's young researchers, Mica Andersson, University of Gothenburg and Pontus Gunnarsson, 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 defends her dissertation on November 21, 2025 Elena Costa, Blue Food PhD student working at the research institute Rise and the University of Gothenburg, defends her dissertation "Food neophobia: a key barrier to consumer acceptance of seafood in Sweden" on November 21, 2025. Elena Costa's project revolves around 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 draw attention to everything good from the sea, lakes and aquaculture came from Blå mat and Sjömatsfrämjandet. Despite the fact that 19 October was a Sunday, there was a great deal of involvement from restaurants, companies, universities and other organizations. Here you can read about...