Acronym Aqua-CLIMADAPT
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Eco-innovative solutions for aquaculture adaptation to climate change challenges: investigating immuno-metabolic responses of farmed fish using integrated multi-omics approaches Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Ana Luísa Maulvault Coordinator email a.maulvault@fct.unl.pt
Coordinator institution
NOVA - New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Institutions involved
UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Research Unit (Portugal) ,
NA - Gopsis Lda (Portugal) ,
KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) ,
IPMA - Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (Portugal) ,
NA - SPAROS Lda (Portugal) ,
UiO-CEES - University of Oslo; Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (Norway) ,
Start year 2022 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 249,792 Website https://www.aqua-climadapt.com/ Summary "In face of a growing world population and, alongside, the depletion of various wild fishery stocks, aquaculture's contribution to the global seafood production for human consumption is expected to further increase in the future. However, it’s sustainable expansion will be challenged in different ways, in the coming years, due to the increased occurrence and severity of climate change-related phenomena, like extreme weather (e.g. marine heatwaves) and hypoxic events. These acute and severe changes to the climate will likely push farmed marine fish species outside their thresholds of physiological tolerance, potentially compromising their metabolism and immune responses against pathogen infections. Hampered animal growth rates and increased susceptibility to disease outbreaks can translate in higher mortality and production costs, thus, having devastating effects in the aquaculture sector. In addition, climate change effects (seawater warming, in particular) are also expected to facilitate the dispersion of diseases, prompting the spread of pathogens from tropical regions to temperate ones.
Another expected indirect effect of climate change will be the increased use of pharmaceuticals/pesticides, which will be certainly required by the aquaculture sector in order to control diseases/plagues and mitigate the associated animal and economical losses. Still, this chemically-based disease management approach raises major ecological concerns: introduction of pollutants in marine ecosystems and development of antimicrobial resistance.
Aqua-CLIMADAPT is a 3 year project that proposes to undertake innovative, multidisciplinary and integrated research to:
1) Unveil the impacts of Marine Heatwaves and Hypoxic Events in marine farmed fish species' microbiome, immuno-metabolic pathways, and resilience to emerging pathogens
2) Validate the use of functional feeds enriched with seaweeds as a sustainable and cost-effective adaptation solution to improve fish health and to overcome the environmental challenges posed by climate change.
The team also aims to optimize/validate the use of functional feeds biofortified with seaweeds' bioactive compounds as a sustainable and cost-effective strategy towards climate change adaptation."
Keywords
Microbiome;
Impacts;
Animal feed;
Fish;
Fish biology;
Bioactive compounds;
Animal welfare;
Climate change;
Seabream;
Bioprospecting;
Disease;
Seabass;
Marine Region
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