Tag Scott Nichols

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  October 29, 2018

  Calories count. Aquaculture makes them truly add up.

  Salmon farms are quite different from terrestrial farms in providing both nutrition and calories. They produce stunningly more of both than their land-based counterparts. 

• Feed Sustainability

  June 25, 2018

  SeaWeb Seafood Summit: Defining the future of aquafeed

  At the Barcelona Seafood Summit, an expert panel discussed a sustainable future for aquafeeds. What stands between us and that future? 

• Marketplace

  February 13, 2017

  On GM foods, part 4: Let’s examine our needs

  Scott Nichols concludes his four-part series about GM foods with a simple question about transgenic animals: Are they truly meeting a need? We need more food and we need better nutrition. Both desires should be achieved without increasing environmental impacts. 

• Leadership & Innovation

  December 12, 2016

  On GM foods, part 3: Let’s decide where we’re going

  To assess the role of genetic engineering in agriculture, we should first state what we want from our agricultural systems. Agriculture, and by extension the future of aquaculture, lacks a succinct direction. 

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  October 24, 2016

  On GM foods, part 2: Let’s talk about what truly matters

  With entrenched positions on GM foods, it is difficult to change the conversation, but change it we must. A perpetually contentious climate doesn’t serve us well and we must abandon the current paradigm to define a new framework that facilitates 

• Environmental & Social Responsibility

  August 26, 2016

  On GM foods, part 1: Let’s move this unproductive conversation forward

  In the first part of a series on genetically modified foods, independent advisor Scott Nichols discusses the simplistic decision behind product labels and the more complex question of what could and should be the outcomes of its use. 

• Leadership & Innovation

  December 14, 2015

  Aquaculture Exchange: Scott Nichols, Food’s Future

  Scott Nichols speaks to the Advocate about the launch of his own consultancy, Food’s Future, about groundbreaking innovations at Verlasso and about the role of aquaculture in a rapidly changing world — one in need of collaboration and new ideas.