Acronym LOBSTERPLANT
Category
Aquaculture
Title Development of automated technology for large scale land based production of lobster juveniles and lobster to market size, including development of robotic feeding and imaging control system Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Research for SMEs
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
SME – Research for the benefit of SMEs
Specific Programme (FP7)
Capacities
Funding source European Coordinator Arne Tyssø Coordinator email arne.tysso@norskhummer.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - Aller Aqua AS (Denmark) ,
NA - LABOR Srl (Italy) ,
STI - National Institute of Technology (Norway) ,
NA - North Bay Shellfish Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
IPIMAR - Portuguese Institute for Fisheries and Sea Research (Portugal) ,
NA - Swansea University (United Kingdom) ,
NA - The Seafood Restaurant (Padstow) Limited (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2011 Funding (€) € 1,370,859 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/222362 Summary The proposed project is focused on making large scale land based farming of European and American lobster feasible, both financially and practically, by developing automated technology for feeding and monitoring of each lobster individually. European and American lobster are cannibalistic in nature, and are therefore kept in individual housing cells demanding individual handling, which without automated technology has proven to be too labour consuming. The LobsterPlant project will by making large scale farming of lobster a reality, contribute to filling the gap between market demand and market supply of lobster and reduce the need to harvest natural lobster, whose population is already low due to over harvesting. There is currently no competing technology on the market which makes large scale farming of lobster feasible, so the proposing partners are hence creating a new market for themselves.
The demand for European lobster exceeds supply. Current European lobster landings can only supply 2–7% of the market demand as the natural stock is simply insufficient to sustain an annual harvest required by the market due to over fishing which has depleted stocks. Large scale aquaculture of lobster is an alternative method to provide the supply to the market, but has not to date been feasible due to lack of automated technology available. The LobsterPlant project will make large scale farming of lobster possible by developing of: • automated feeding and imaging technology for feeding and monitoring of the lobsters • cleaning technology for removal of waste in raceways • feed of right stability for the automated feeding technology and • determine optimal methods for control of water quality in lobster plants
Keywords
Land-based aquaculture;
Technology;
Lobster;
Shellfish;
Crustacean;
Engineering;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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