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Maria Margarida Alves da Silva de Almeida Saavedra de Carvalho Amaro

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Margarida Saavedra is a fish nutritionist and researcher at the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmophere. She has more than 20 years’ experience in fish reproduction and on-growing of species such as seabream, meagre, sole, white seabream, cod, and seahorses. Margarida is specialized in fish nutrition, feed formulation and designing general experimental trials with fish. She completed her PhD in fish larvae (Diplodus sargus) nutrition in 2008 and has an MSc in Aquaculture from Stirling University. Margarida Saavedra has 23 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (3 book chapters) and more than 30 oral and poster presentations in scientific meetings.

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