The edition no. 7/2025 of EUMOFA’s Monthly Highlights features a case study on the development of the trade flows of fishery and aquaculture products between the EU and the Andean community and a case study on clams in the EU.
The current issue also analyses the evolution of first sales at the commodity group level and the first sales in EU Member States and it examines the consumption and extra-EU imports of small pelagics.
The Monthly Highlights edition no. 7/2025 is available at the link below:
The 2025 edition of Aquaculture Europe, with the theme “Aquaculture for everyone”, will take place in Valencia, Spain, on September 22-25.
The event is organised by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and it will feature parallel sessions which will include oral and poster presentations that have been submitted and will cover the entire range of European aquaculture scientific disciplines and species, an international trade exhibition, an industrial forum, student sessions and activities, satellite workshops, as well as updates on EU research.
The fourth edition of the Global Shrimp Forum will take place from 2nd to 4th September 2025, in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
More than 500 stakeholders representing the whole shrimp value chain will come together for the event, for networking, strengthening business relationships and exploring industry developments.
With sessions addressing a wide range of subjects such as industry and markets, animal health and welfare, farming innovation and optimization, etc., as well as a visit to an aquaculture company, the 2025 event seeks to shape the future of the shrimp industry.
KOA Biotech, a Barcelona-based startup specializing in aquaculture health, has raised €2 million in funding to scale its early pathogen detection technology. The investment round was led by Swanlaab Innvierte Agrifood-Tech, with participation from international impact investors Fund-F (Austria) and FABER (Portugal).
Founded by Sira Mogas during her PhD in biomedicine, KOA Biotech was born from her ambition to create a mission-driven company that addressed a real-world need. Though she initially had no background in aquaculture, Mogas recognized a major challenge in the industry: bacterial infections in fish farms, which result in up to 30% production losses worldwide—amounting to more than $6 billion annually.
At the heart of KOA’s solution are genetically engineered biosensors that detect bacterial infections in water before they cause outbreaks. These proprietary sensors work alongside hardware readers and machine learning algorithms that analyze response patterns to deliver early warnings. This proactive approach helps reduce fish mortality, limit antibiotic use, and prevent financial losses—while also enhancing sustainability and enabling real-time health monitoring.
KOA delivers its technology through a “Sensing as a Service” model, offering equipment and consumables on a subscription basis, along with cloud-based access to monitoring data.
