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
	Aquaculture
	Marine Biotechnology
Title
Programme
Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
Theme (FP7) Activity Area (FP6) Regional Area (Interreg) Action (COST)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Funding source
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Coordinator email
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Institutions involved
	Akvaplan-niva AS
	Applied Molecular Biosciences Research Unit
	Chemical Process Engineering and Forest Products Research Centre
	Federal University of Espírito Santo
	Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication
	Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro
	Liaocheng University
	New University of Lisbon
	Sea Eight
	University of Coimbra
	University of Madeira
	University of Madeira; Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology
	University of Mons
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Website
Summary	The technology to be developed in DigiAqua targets an important biotechnology industry, specifically to create innovative biosensing, novel modalities and new understandings to support European commercial innovation to preserve the fish well-being and food quality for the humans in line with objectives from the 2030 Agenda goals of EU for sustainable aquaculture. Thus, this technology can contribute to accelerate the development of intensive aquaculture, allowing the achievement of the goals set by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2030 to provide 60% of the fish consumed by man. Recirculating Aquaculture Systems have been the protein production sector with the biggest growth in the world requiring high-tech progress. Aquaculture in tanks brings complex dynamics between the number of fishes, water quality and their wellbeing. Recirculation Aquaculture Systems are used for intensive fish production where water exchange is limited with economic and security-related benefits. When fishes are stressed (producing high levels of stress hormone that is not monitored in real-time nor in-situ due to the lack of technology) due to sub-optimal rearing conditions, it affects growth, feeding and feed conversion ratio drop and leading to high costs and production loss. On the other hand, very little is understood about how small plastic particles can influence the fish growth, fish welfare and consequently food quality for the humans, being crucial to start exploring novel mechanisms for critical points since there are no solutions for detection/monitoring the sub-micro and nanoplastics, where the existing ones are for large dimension (>1µm). In addition, these small plastic particles transport pathogenic bacteria that grow on it. At this moment, removal protocol of such small plastic particles is still missing. The goal of DigiAqua is to bring novel modalities, understandings and sustainable high-tech for such challenge in order to bring new knowledge and new lines of research in protein production through the sustainable aquaculture sector.
Keywords
	Bacteria
	Fish
	Flatfish
	Microplastics
	Monitoring
	Recirculating systems
	Sensors
	Water quality
Marine Region
	NOT ASSOCIATED TO MARINE AREAS; Not associated to marine areas; Not associated to marine areas

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