Published on 03/03/2026
ValoSEPURE has obtained in January 2026 the financial support of the European Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Fund to develop original and diversified communications about ponds as agroecosystems. The program goals are diverse: i) to promote sustainable and competitive fish farming practices, ii) to strengthen at a national level the links and knowledge sharing between fish farmers and iii) to develop a wider community of actors affected by ponds (opening up local actors such as managers of aquatic environments, facilitators of aquaculture sector, training centers as well as their students).
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Published on 20/02/2026
Following the extraordinary general meeting on 6 June 2025, Sylvain Milla was elected director of L2A. He took up his post on 1 January this year for a five-year term.
Published on 19/02/2026
On last January 30th, was held the first 2026 session of the ComAqua office of AFSTAL with the visit of the experimental platform culminating at the end of a rich in exchanges and learning meeting.These monthly meetings aim at coordinating a network of professionnals involved in the uitlization of aquatic models (such as the organisation of webinars, conferences meetings), sharing good practises about using animals for scientific ends and proposing tools to evaluate animal wellfare.
Published on 29/01/2026
As part of the MAPEMONDE project (PNR EST), partners from Génoscope (Evry) and the Pasteur Institute of Guadeloupe met at L2A. In addition to discussions on the progress of the project, a tour of the PASM facilities and the AgroMétha Chair at the Bouzule R&D Centre gave everyone a better understanding of the work carried out by L2A, all in a friendly atmosphere!
Published on 27/01/2026
The OPTICED project steering committee hold a meeting on December 10th in the premises of ONIRIS-INRAE in Nantes. It was an opportunity to review the project progress and the first summary of the works held in 2024 and 2025. Our DAC team who was in charge of the optimization of husbandry practices, has analysed an important set of data on growth, performance and survival rates of the shrimps (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in conditions of polyculture tests (schrimps and fish) in semi extensive farming systems in the Gers region (Gascogne Aquaculture), in Mayenne (LMAA from Haut Anjou) and Ain (pisciculture des Cyprins).
Published on 19/12/2025
On December 18, 2025, Emmanouil Diakos successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled « Evolution of aquaculture potential during fish domestication: a multi-trait evaluation of breeding programs and sex-specific responses in a model species (Danio rerio) as an asset for aquaculture diversification », carried out under the supervision of Pascal Fontaine and Thomas Lecocq.
The examination committee, composed of Elena Mente (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Marie-Laure Bégout (Ifremer), Valérie Cornet (UNamur), Carole Leguille (University of Lorraine), Md. Shahjahan (Bangladesh Agricultural University), and Marc Vandeputte (INRAE), awarded him the degree of Doctor of the University of Lorraine.
Congratulations to Emmanouil!