Acronym DIVERSIFY
Category
Aquaculture
Title Exploring the biological and socio-economic potential of new/emerging candidate fish species for the expansion of the European aquaculture industry Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project targeted to a Special Group (such as SMEs)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Constantinos Mylonas Coordinator email mylonas@hcmr.gr
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark) ,
NA - Acuigroup Maremar SL (Spain) ,
NA - Aquaculture Forkys AE (Greece) ,
ARGO - ARGOSARONIKOS fish farms SA (Greece) ,
NA - Asialor SARL (France) ,
NA - Azienda Agricola Ittica Caldoli (Italy) ,
NA - Canarias of Marine Explotations SL (Spain) ,
NA - City Hall of A Coruna (Spain) ,
NA - Dor Dgey Yam Ltd (Israel) ,
TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) ,
EUFIC - European Food Information Council (Belgium) ,
NA - Federal Association of the German Fish Industry and the Fish Wholesalers (Germany) ,
FGM - Federation of Greek Mariculture (Greece) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
FCPCT - Fundación Canaria Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) ,
NA - Hungarian Aquaculture Association (Hungary) ,
IRTA - Institute of Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (Spain) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
IRIDA - Irida AE - Products for Animal Production-Services (Greece) ,
IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel) ,
NA - Kentro Meleton Agoras Kai Koinis Gnomis Anonimi Emporiki Etairia (Greece) ,
ANFACO-CECOPESCA - National Association of Conservatives of Pescados (Spain) ,
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway) ,
NA - Regional Government of Galicia (Spain) ,
SKRET - Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre AS (Norway) ,
IEO - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Spain) ,
NA - Sterling White Halibut A/S (Norway) ,
DLO - Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (Netherlands) ,
DTU - Technical University of Denmark (Denmark) ,
CTAQUA - Technological Center for Aquaculture of Andalusia (Spain) ,
UOA - University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) ,
UNIBA - University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) ,
ULL - University of La Laguna (Spain) ,
UL - University of Lorraine (France) ,
UNAMUR - University of Namur (Belgium) ,
NA - Vas. Geitonas & Co LTD EE (Greece) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 11,777,653 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/603121 Summary The European aquaculture is a modern industry employing 190,000 people, with a €7 billion ex-farm value. This sector is well situated to be among world leaders in the efficient and sustainable production of safe seafood of the highest quality and nutritional value, taking into account consumer preferences and the large diversity of aquatic products from the wild. DIVERSIFY identified a number of new/emerging finfish species, with a great potential for the expansion of the EU aquaculture industry. The emphasis is on Mediterranean or warm-water cage culture, but also addressed are cold-water, pond/extensive and fresh water aquaculture. These new/emerging species are fast growing and/or large finfishes, marketed at a large size and can be processed into a range of products to provide the consumer with both a greater diversity of fish species and new value-added products. DIVERSIFY focuses on meagre (Argyrosomus regius) and greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) for warm-water marine cage culture, wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) for warm- and cool-water marine cage culture, Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) for marine cold-water culture, grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) a euryhaline herbivore for pond/extensive culture, and pikeperch (Sanders lucioperca) for freshwater intensive culture using RAS. These species were selected based both on their biological and economical potential, and to cover the entire European geographic area and stimulate different aquaculture types. In collaboration with a number of SMEs, DIVERSIFY will build on recent/current national initiatives for species diversification in aquaculture, in order to overcome the documented bottlenecks in the production of these species. The combination of biological, technological and socioeconomic research planned in DIVERSIFY are expected to support the diversification of the aquaculture industry and help in expanding production, increasing aquaculture products and development of new markets.
Keywords
Halibut;
Aquaculture diversification;
Amberjacks;
Grey mullet;
Fish;
Aquaculture industry;
Open sea aquaculture;
Land-based aquaculture;
Cage aquaculture;
Technology;
Meagre;
Aquaculture development;
Flatfish;
Engineering;
Wreckfish;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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