Alice Gasperini (IATS-CSIC) was selected as a finalist for the Student Spotlight Award at Aquaculture Europe 2025 for her work on biological age as a welfare indicator in sea bream. The study analyzes ten key genes that reflect the fish's life history and its response to farming conditions. The media outlet mispeces.com has published a...
The national meeting of the ThinkInAzul program was held in San Pedro del Pinatar (Murcia) from October 7th to 9th, with the participation of the seven autonomous communities that comprise this initiative: Andalusia, Cantabria, the Valencian Community, Galicia, the Region of Murcia, the Canary Islands, and the Balearic Islands. The...
Last September, two students from the Master's Degree in Aquaculture earned an Outstanding (9.5) grade for their Master's Thesis (TFM), addressing key topics in the study and conservation of the European eel (Anguilla anguilla). Erika Rodríguez García presented a project entitled...
Our GVA-ThinkInAzul researchers, Jaume Pérez, Carlos Valle, Esther Sendra, Carmen Amaro, José Tena, and Josep Pardo, have emphasized the need to adopt a comprehensive and global vision to protect the oceans and ensure their long-term sustainability. As they advocated in Las Provincias, they warn...
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has included the pig blood valorization process developed by the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC) and the Torre de la Sal Aquaculture Institute (IATS-CSIC), both part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), in its catalog of the 100 most innovative technologies of 2025.
Since 2022, the ThinkInAzul project, funded by the Next Generation EU program, has consolidated a broad collaborative network in marine sciences spanning seven Spanish autonomous communities: Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Galicia, the Region of Murcia, and the Valencian Community. During three years of collaborative work,...
José Tena's group at the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) has launched a new study focused on the impact of the warming of the Mediterranean Sea on marine species that inhabit the coasts between Valencia, Dénia, and Pobla de...
The Nutrigenomics and Fish Growth Endocrinology group at the Torre de la Sal Aquaculture Institute (IATS, CSIC) has received consecutive nominations for the prestigious Student Spotlight Award at the Aquaculture Europe conference in 2022, 2023, and 2025. This recognition, which honors scientific excellence among students in training among three...
On July 9, several members of the GVA-ThinkInAzul project appeared on the Onda Cero program "Comunitat Valenciana en la Onda" to discuss marine research and sustainability. Participants included Lluis Gaspar Miret (UPV Gandía), Mª Victoria Vivancos (UPV), Carlos Valle Pérez...
The newspaper Información has reported that Valencia will host the Aquaculture Europe 2025 Congress (AE2025), the sector's most important event in Europe. It will bring together more than 2.500 experts, companies, and organizations from 70 countries from September 22 to 25.