Blue Bio Database - Database of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology Projects

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

Acronym
Category
	Fisheries
Title
Programme
Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
Theme (FP7) Activity Area (FP6) Regional Area (Interreg) Action (COST)
Specific Programme (FP7)
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Coordinator
Coordinator email
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Institutions involved
	Abo Akademi University
	Klaipeda University
	Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
	Lund University
	Russian Academy of Sciences; Zoological Institute
	Stockholm University
	Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
	Technical University of Denmark
	University of Gdańsk
	University of Gothenburg
	University of Helsinki
	Utrecht University
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Summary	COCOA will analyse the pathways of nutrients in the coastal zones of the Baltic Sea by 1) quantifying the role of bacteria, phytoplankton, benthic microalgae, seagrasses, macroalgae and fauna in transforming and accumulating nutrients using novel measurement techniques employed in four different types of coastal ecosystems (learning sites: lagoons, river-dominated estuaries, embayments, and archipelagos), 2) developing dynamic state-of-the-art coastal models for these learning sites with a strong focus on quantifying benthic-pelagic coupling and integrating the improved process understanding to the ecosystem level, 3) developing empirical models to estimate the nutrient retention across coastal ecosystems, 4) improving the model formulations for coastal nutrient retention in the decision support system NEST, used for the revision of the Baltic Sea Action Plan. Through model experiments, COCOA will investigate feedback processes, associated with hypoxia and loss of key biological functions, and examine the potential existence of alternative stable states leading to hysteresis responses and identify critical thresholds associated with such responses. COCOA will use models and statistical analyses to examine changes in nutrient retention over the past and in the future given scenarios for climate change and management responses. Consequences of altered nutrient pathways on coastal ecosystem services will be assessed and used for identifying optimal management strategies.
Keywords
	Bacteria
	Benthic communities
	Climate change
	Food web
	Impacts
	Seagrass
Marine Region
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)

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