Behnan Thomas

NACCEE encourages young professionals’ participation This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. Dr Laszlo Varadi has been involved in the freshwater aquaculture sector for a lifetime. Retiring as director of HAKI, the Hungarian Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture, though still attached as an International Advisor, he is today the President of the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Central-Eastern Europe (NACCEE) and also works at the Department of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University in Budapest. He shares here some of his opinions about the sector and its future.

A new basis for international business This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. “Blockchain” is for many people still little more than a buzzword they may have heard about in connection with the digital currency bitcoins.

Consumers need more information about the benefits offered by today’s technologies This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. Advances in biotechnology are opening up new opportunities that can benefit aquaculture, too, making it more efficient, more environmentally friendly, and more sustainable. The potential is enormous, but not all biotechnological methods and tools find acceptance in the public domain. Some consumers even reject genetic engineering outright. However, genetic engineering is only one of many opportunities that biotechnology offers us.

July / August 2020 EM4 Country profile: Denmark,…

Steady progress towards understanding the eel This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. An ongoing project to further knowledge about the European eel and to close the breeding cycle brings together researchers from DTU Aqua and companies interested in farming eels. The work in the project builds on the results from two others also coordinated by DTU Aqua. Significant progress has been made, but commercial production is probably still a decade away.

Growing demand and attractive prices are accelerating overuse This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 4 / 2020. Sea cucumbers, also called holothurians, are the most species-rich group of echinoderms (which also include sea urchins and starfish). On the seabed these worm-like creatures are of similar ecological importance as earthworms in the garden.

EMSA strengthens Europe’s competitiveness, sustainable growth, and the blue economy This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 3 2020. The European Maritime Safety Agency is the body responsible for maritime safety and the prevention of pollution by ships in European Union waters.

Globalisation will remain an indispensable part of the fish industry This article was featured in EUROFISH Magazine 3 2020. The coronavirus has largely brought public life to a standstill. Stock markets have plunged into the red, freedom of movement has been severely restricted in some places, and the consequences for the global economy are not foreseeable.

Competition for fish is becoming increasingly international This article featured in EUROFISH Magazine 3 2020. The basic idea behind auctions is very old: the goods on offer will be sold to the highest bidder. This method – which is also used to auction fish and seafood – is as simple as it is successful.