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

MIDSA
Marine Biotechnology
Aquaculture
Microencapsulated Diets for Sustainable Aquaculture
NA
European
David Aldridge
d.aldridge@zoo.cam.ac.uk
NA
NA - Azti (Spain), 
2019
2021
€ NA
https://www.eitfood.eu/projects/midsa-microencapsulated-diets-for-sustainable-aquaculture
There is a global need to sustainably increase aquaculture production to meet the needs of a growing population. Bivalve shellfish aquaculture is highly attractive from a human nutrition, economic, environmental and ecosystem standpoint. However, bivalve industry growth is falling behind fish aquaculture due to critical defects in the production process. Feed defects, disease, and quality issues are throttling production. We will develop a highly nutritious bivalve feed product, in the form of microencapsulated particles, and known as BioBullets. This feed will increase bivalve hatchery production rates through uplift in the quality of broodstock and higher survivorship and growth of juveniles. We have already demonstrated that our microencapsulates can be ingested by a commercially farmed bivalve, the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. This project will source nutritional encapsulates from waste streams, providing economic and sustainability benefits through a circular economy.
Bivalve; Larval rearing; Land-based aquaculture; Mussel; Larvae; Wastes; Mollusc; Waste valorization; Shellfish; Broodstocks; Bioprospecting; Animal feed;
Not associated to marine areas
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