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The opportunities and challenges of aquaculture
University of Waikato senior lecturer Dr Simon Muncaster will be speaking at a free public lecture on aquaculture on Tuesday July 6 at 6pm in Tauranga. Photo: Supplied. ); } else { // }
Aquaculture has become a hot-button topic this year, with the release of the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy .
However, the way the industry is portrayed, and some facts in the story, are not the whole truth, contends Dr Simon Muncaster, senior lecturer in the School of Marine Science and Aquaculture at the University of Waikato in Tauranga.
He is speaking at afree public lecture on Tuesday July 6, from 6pm, at the University’s Durham Street campus in Tauranga. ....
Source: University of Waikato World-leading Tauranga marine scientist, Professor Chris Battershill, will be speaking about the importance of ocean biodiversity and the sustainable management of this important natural resource in a Tauranga Public Lecture Series on April 12. The free event, held at the University of Waikato Tauranga campus, will reveal how derivatives from sea sponges can fight a variety of cancers and how red seaweed has been used to create drugs for HIV/Aids and potential for treatment of the Covid-19 virus. The hour-long talk, Drugs from the Sea: Biomedicines, Biodiversity and Biopirates, is billed as a must-attend for those interested in this ground-breaking area of medical and marine science, and for anyone interested in the sustainable management of our ocean resources. ....
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