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

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Marine Biotechnology
Aquaculture
Foods of Norway
National Programme
National
Margareth Øverland
margareth.overland@nmbu.no
NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway)
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark),  NA - Animalia AS (Norway),  NA - AquaGen AS (Norway),  NA - BioMar (Norway),  NA - Borregaard AS (Norway),  NA - Denofa AS (Norway),  NA - EniferBio (Finland),  FKF - Felleskjøpet Fôrutvikling AS (Norway),  NA - Geno SA (Norway),  NA - Lallemand Inc (Canada),  NA - Norilia AS (Norway),  NA - Norske Felleskjøp (Norway),  NA - NORTURA (Norway),  NA - Seaweed Solutions AS (Norway),  SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden),  NA - TINE SA (Norway),  NA - University of Chile (Chile),  M - University of Minnesota (United States of America),  UWA - University of Western Australia (Australia),  USDA - US Department of Agriculture (United States of America), 
2015
2023
€ 20,210,526
https://www.foodsofnorway.net/
Foods of Norway will contribute to growth and increased value creation in the Norwegian aquaculture and agriculture industries by developing sustainable feed ingredients from natural bioresources that are not suitable for direct human consumption. New feed products will be developed from forestry, agriculture, and marine resources through industrial exploitation of cutting-edge research on processing and (bio)technology. The center also aims at improving feed efficiency by innovative feed processing technology, and by combining important phenotypic traits, new biomarkers for feed efficiency and advanced genomic analysis to support genetic adaptation to the novel feed resources. Today, Norway relies largely on imported feed ingredients, mainly due to insufficient land area suitable for agriculture and challenging climatic conditions. The center will have a special focus on developing new innovative processing technologies that allow conversion of national bioresources into feed for farm animals and fish. The development and introduction of the novel feed resources will be accompanied by comprehensive biological verification in fish and farm animals, as well as evaluation of food quality, using state of the art methods. The consortium comprises 9 academic and 14 industrial partners with broad and longstanding multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of (bio)processing, feed technology, physiology, nutrition, health and genetics, food production and food quality, and resource economics and sustainability assessors. The potential value creation from use of novel feed resources and increased feed efficiency is substantial, and will secure growth and competitive advantages for all industrial partners. Foods of Norway will make a major contribution towards strengthening national food security, overall bioeconomy and sustainability along the production chain from basic resources to final food products, and minimize the environmental impact of aquaculture and agriculture. Foods of Norway started up in September 2015 and plans for research, recruitment of young scientists and acquiring important research infrastructure are under way. The challenge, the solution and the technology driving the research have been widely presented both to the scientific community and the general public. A major research activity is to produce sustainable feed sources from non-food biomass, such as macroalgae and trees, by biorefinery processes, novel enzyme technology, fermentation technology, and down-stream processing. Producing yeast from tree biomass involves the use of thermo-chemical processes to separate the tree fibers into the main constituents lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose. Hemicellulose and cellulose are then converted to sugars by enzymatic hydrolysis, and these sugars are used as energy and carbon sources for yeast cells in large fermentation tanks. Lastly, the yeast cells are harvested and dried into a product that can be used as a high quality protein-rich feed ingredient. Small-scale experiments involving the use of sugar solutions from Borregaard to optimize the fermentation conditions and to screen for promising yeast strains have started. Methods for analyzing sugar content and composition of macroalgae have been established. Current research also includes hydrolyzing macroalgae to upgrade the nutritional value through a biorefinery process. Animal and fish by-products represent a valuable, underutilized resource. To optimize the fermentation condition it is important to provide a media that not only contain sugars, but also N, P and other nutrients. A PhD student has been recruited to explore the use of animal and fish co-products as alternative sources of N and other nutrients in the fermentation process. Fractionation of bioactive components from macroalgae will also be performed for use in feeding experiments with salmon and other farm animals. Grass represent an important biomass in Norway, but the nutritional value is limited by a high content of indigestible fiber and a low protein content. Current research activities include upgrading the nutritional value of grass silage by more robust mechanical and chemical methods in combination with the use of novel enzymes or enzyme cocktails. Nutritional value of the silage will be evaluated in in sacco experiments with rumen-fistulated cows. Improving feed efficiency to support genetic adaptation to the novel feed resources provides large opportunities for value creation. A PhD student in fish nutrition and genetics has been employed and current research activities include method development for measuring individual feed utilization in farmed salmon. Finally, plans for assessing the sustainability aspect by using tree and macroalgae biomass for feed production have started with national and international partners.
Animal feed; Wastes; Fish; Bioprospecting; Algae; Waste valorization; Byproducts;
Not associated to marine areas
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