REPROFISH, a European initiative aiming to summarise the most important breakthroughs in terms of fish reproduction research, and demonstrate their application to fish farming, has launched its website . This site is not only for scientists, but equally for fish farming professionals, students and the general public.

The finfish.org web site provides a communication platform for a significant effort in aquaculture innovation. One of the key steps in the process will be the development of a Finfish Innovation Roadmap that will define productivity transforming innovations. Through the Roadmap, appropriate entrepreneurial, corporate and innovation capabilities will be assembled to enable the innovations to be developed and market share captured. Visit http://finfish.org to find out more.

This was the plain message arising from a special workshop of the EAS Thematic Group on Controlled Reproduction and Larval Rearing of the European Eel. The workshop was held at the Aquaculture Europe 2007 event in Istanbul and attracted participants from 15 countries. The full report of the worskhop can be found here.
All EAS members may join any one of the EAS Thematic Groups and we strongly encourage you to get involved. If you are not already a member, you may join EAS here .

Several very interesting documents are now online , arising from the European Commission conference on "European Aquaculture and its Opportunities for Development", held in Brussels on November 15-16. The documents include the meeting programme with links to presentations and statements, extended minutes and list of participants. The outcomes of the conference, in conjunction with the responses to the consultation carried out eralier in the year, will assist the Commission in its preparation of a new, updated strategy for European aquaculture, to be communicated in 2008.

The European Council Regulation 708/2007 concerning the use of alien and locally absent species in aquaculture has been published in the Official Journal of 28 June. It is available in 22 of the 23 Official Languages and can be accessed here .

The  article "Farming soles - a reality at last?" appeared in the September issue of the Aquaculture Europe magazine. The full report of the 3rd workshop held at CIFPA El Toruno, Cadiz, Spain, in March 2006 can be read here.

The Center for Multidisciplinary Studies of the Belgrade University, Serbia, have developed a web presentation "Sturgeons in Serbia ", within a project for raising environmental awareness concerning sturgeon protection issues. The site covers issues related to sturgeon species present in Serbia, state of their populations, endangering factors, as well as overview of relevant national and intenational legislation, stakeholders and publications.

The CRAB consortium (EU Collective Research on Aquaculture Biofouling) has published its third newsletter on strategies to mitigate the biofouling problem. It is avialable at the CRAB website .