On 27 July 2026, in Brussels, Belgium, Wallace Cosgrow, Minister for Fisheries, Agriculture and Blue Economy of Seychelles, and Costas Kadis, European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, sign a Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement.

The facility supplies feed for shrimp and fish farming.

Shellfish aquaculture could appraoch near-zero emissions by 2050, according to the report. Pictured: an Irish mussel farm.

Including feed in the calculations raises the European aquaculture sector’s projected emissions for 2026 from around 1.8 million tonnes to 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, according to the report.

Feed production and transport were the largest source of EU aquaculture emissions, accounting for 54% of the total between 2005 and 2024.

In 2022, Nueva Pescanova announced its plans to build what would have been the world's first commercial octopus farm.