Daniela R. Farías, Rolando Ibarra, Rodrigo A. Estévez, Michael F. Tlusty, Oskar Nyberg, Max Troell, Ruben Avendaño-Herrera, Wendy Norden. 2024. Towards Sustainable Antibiotic Use in Aquaculture and Antimicrobial Resistance: Participatory Experts’ Overview and Recommendations. Antibiotics. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13090887

Notably, 56 worldwide experts gathered for the Antimicrobial Assessment on Global Aquaculture Production (AGAP) series of workshops to (1) evaluate the current state of knowledge on antimicrobial use and identify existing gaps; (2) formulate strategies to identify ecologically relevant impact indicators and establish thresholds for assessment; (3) identify pivotal socioeconomic factors and effective governance mechanisms essen...

Jessica A. Gephart, Rahul Agrawal Bejarano, Kelvin Gorospe, Alex Godwin, Christopher D. Golden, Rosamond L. Naylor, Kirsty L. Nash, Michael L. Pace, Max Troell. 2024. Globalization of wild capture and farmed aquatic foods. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51965-8

Aquatic foods are highly traded, with nearly 60 million tonnes exported in 2020, representing 11% of global agriculture trade by value. Despite the vast scale, basic characteristics of aquatic food trade, including species, origin, and farmed vs wild sourcing, are largely unknown due to the reporting of trade data. Consequently, we have a coarse picture of aquatic food trade and consumption patterns. Here, we present results f...

Max Troell, Noureddine Benkeblia, Catriona Hurd, Thierry Chopin, Barry A. Costa-Pierce, Mark J. Costello. 2024. Seaweeds for carbon dioxide removal (CDR)–Getting the science right. PLOS Climate. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000377

To keep global warming < 2˚C, Almaraz et al. [1] highlight the need to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production and remove atmospheric carbon dioxide by 2050. They provided an expert analysis of the potential of terrestrial based biological methods of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), including technologies that “demonstrated high impact potential supported by peer-reviewed literature”. However, scientific...

Killian Chary, Anne‐Jo van Riel, Abigail Muscat, Aurélie Wilfart, Souhil Harchaoui, Marc Verdegem, Ramón Filgueira, Max Troell, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Imke J. M. de Boer, Geert F. Wiegertjes. 2023. Transforming sustainable aquaculture by applying circularity principles. Reviews in Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12860

A circular economy is considered one way to reduce environmental impacts of human activities, by more efficient use of resources and recovery, resulting in less waste and emissions compared to linear take-make-dispose systems. Muscat et al. developed five ecological principles to guide biomass use towards a circular economy. A few studies have demonstrated environmental benefits of applying these principles to land-based food ...