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Researchers from IGB have just published an extensive profitability analysis of an aquaponics facility that produces fish and vegetables on a large scale. The result: aquaponics can be financially rewarding.

The workshop "The Blue Sector at the Crossroad – Moving Aquaculture Into More Sustainable Waters" looked at strategies for a more intensive but sustainable use of fish, mussels, crustaceans or algae in aquacultures.

Aquaculture is the fastest growing area of food production in the world – one of the reasons why it is the subject of controversial debate in society and politics. The information portal Aquakulturinfo.de provides objective and research-based information on aquaculture.

Aquatic organisms are threatened by fungal and fungal-like diseases globally. There are few approved chemical means for combating these pathogens, and many have unwanted side-effects. IGB scientists propose 7 biological alternatives.

Graduates get the skills to work in pioneering jobs at the interface of the aquatic sciences, sustainable ecosystem management and food production.

IGB-team receives the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize for the "Tomatofish". Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek presents the prize in Berlin. 

As part of the BMBF ideas competition "New products for the bio-economy" a new breeding concept for protein-rich insect larvae, developed at the IGB, is promoted as sustainable future feed source.