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

SATA
Aquaculture
Marine Biotechnology
Waterborne seaweed metabolites as a green solution for antimicrobial therapy in aquaculture
Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
National-European
Leonardo Mata
lmata@ualg.pt
CCMAR - Centre for Marine Sciences (Portugal)
JCU - James Cook University (Australia), 
2011
2014
€ 108,680
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This project aims to provide an alternative technology to antibiotics for antimicrobial control: the use of waterborne seaweed metabolites. It will reveal the benefits of integrating seaweeds in intensive animal aquaculture industry as a novel means to reduce bacterial infections. The metabolites of seaweeds released to the water culture will be quantified by chemical analysis and molecular microbial techniques will be used to determine the antimicrobial effects of seaweed metabolites on fish health using bacterial infection experiments. (1) Quantify the production/release rates of Asparagopsis taxiformis metabolites to the surrounding water and determine their residence times; (2) Characterize the planktonic bacterial community composition in A. taxiformis conditioned seawater; (3) Determine the benefits of waterborne A. taxiformis metabolites for seabream larvae culture; (4) Determine the activity of waterborne A. taxiformis metabolites against the fish pathogenic bacteria Pseudomonas anguilliseptica and Listonella anguillarum; (5) Evaluate the potential benefits of waterborne seaweed metabolites for seabream aquaculture.
Seabream; Antimicrobials; Disease; Algae; Fish; Bioprospecting; Fish health; Animal welfare;
Not associated to marine areas
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