Acronym DIGIAqua
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Title Digitizing Aquaculture: from predictive analytics to intelligent photonics platform Programme COST
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Funding source European Coordinator Carlos Marques Coordinator email cafm@ua.pt
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Start year 2022 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 249,966 Website https://www.digiaqua.eu/ Summary The technology to be developed in DigiAqua targets an important biotechnology industry, specifically to create innovative biosensing, novel modalities and new understandings to support European commercial innovation to preserve the fish well-being and food quality for the humans in line with objectives from the 2030 Agenda goals of EU for sustainable aquaculture. Thus, this technology can contribute to accelerate the development of intensive aquaculture, allowing the achievement of the goals set by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2030 to provide 60% of the fish consumed by man.
Recirculating Aquaculture Systems have been the protein production sector with the biggest growth in the world requiring high-tech progress. Aquaculture in tanks brings complex dynamics between the number of fishes, water quality and their wellbeing. Recirculation Aquaculture Systems are used for intensive fish production where water exchange is limited with economic and security-related benefits. When fishes are stressed (producing high levels of stress hormone that is not monitored in real-time nor in-situ due to the lack of technology) due to sub-optimal rearing conditions, it affects growth, feeding and feed conversion ratio drop and leading to high costs and production loss.
On the other hand, very little is understood about how small plastic particles can influence the fish growth, fish welfare and consequently food quality for the humans, being crucial to start exploring novel mechanisms for critical points since there are no solutions for detection/monitoring the sub-micro and nanoplastics, where the existing ones are for large dimension (>1µm). In addition, these small plastic particles transport pathogenic bacteria that grow on it.
At this moment, removal protocol of such small plastic particles is still missing. The goal of DigiAqua is to bring novel modalities, understandings and sustainable high-tech for such challenge in order to bring new knowledge and new lines of research in protein production through the sustainable aquaculture sector.
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