The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

DIGIAqua
Aquaculture
Marine Biotechnology
Digitizing Aquaculture: from predictive analytics to intelligent photonics platform
COST
European
Carlos Marques
cafm@ua.pt
UA - University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Akvaplan-niva - Akvaplan-niva AS (Norway)UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Research Unit (Portugal)CIEPQPF - Chemical Process Engineering and Forest Products Research Centre (Portugal)UFES - Federal University of Espírito Santo (Portugal)I3N - Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication (Portugal)IEETA - Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (Portugal)NA - Liaocheng University (China)NOVA - New University of Lisbon (Portugal)NA - Sea Eight (Portugal)UC - University of Coimbra (Portugal)UMA - University of Madeira (Portugal)ISOPlexis - University of Madeira; Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology (Portugal)UMONS - University of Mons (Belgium)
2022
2025
€ 249,966
https://www.digiaqua.eu/
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.
Monitoring; Microplastics; Sensors; Recirculating systems; Bacteria; Fish; Water quality; Flatfish;
Not associated to marine areas
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