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

PEIXEROL
Aquaculture
Glycerol as alternative ingredient for fish feed - potential for aquaculture
Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
National-European
Leonardo Julián Magnoni
NA
UC - University of Coimbra (Portugal)
INRA - French National Institute for Agricultural Research (France),  CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (Portugal), 
2016
2019
€ 197,836
https://www2.ciimar.up.pt/projects.php?id=31
Aquaculture remains highly dependent of fishmeal protein and its procurement still relies on exploiting wild fisheries. Any reduction in its utilization by farmed fish would reduce the ecological burden of aquaculture and improve its sustainability. We hypothesize that these environmental benefits can be addressed by feeding carnivorous fish with glycerol-supplemented diets. Fishmeal is partially replaced by a less expensive, non-nitrogenous ingredient in surplus in the global market, therefore reducing feed costs, a major contributor the operational budget of any fish farm. To test this, we must effectively demonstrate the metabolic utilization of glycerol as energy substrate without compromising optimal growth rates.
Fish; Feed composition; Fish meal replacement; Diets;
Not associated to marine areas
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